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1. #BRUSSELS: Belgian police arrested 16 people overnight in a wave of anti-terror raids, but key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam remains at large, authorities have said.
2. #MYANMAR: The death toll from a landslide in northern Myanmar has reached at least 113 this morning, as soldiers and volunteers continue to pull bodies from the rubble.
3. #US SHOOTING: At least 16 people have been wounded after two groups opened fire on each other at a New Orleans playground.
4. #BANKING INQUIRY: The Irish Times reports that the Oireachtas banking inquiry may have to meet over Christmas to avert the crisis that threatened its collapse.
5. #CHILD ABUSE: New figures show some €42.6 million in property has been transferred from religious orders to the state since 2002 as part of the abuse redress scheme.
6. #SCHOOL ADMISSIONS: The board of a Limerick secondary school is to consider whether a first-year student can opt out of studying religion, after the school’s principal rejected a request from her father, according to RTÉ.
7. #ROAD SAFETY: The Irish Independent reports that drivers will be tested for illegal drugs, as well as alcohol, for the first time under new drug-driving laws expected to be introduced before the general election.
8. #MAURICIO MACRI: Argentina has elected a new conservative president, bringing to an end more than a decade of left-wing policies under the outgoing president, Cristina Kirchner, and her predecessor and late husband, Nestor Kirchner.
9. #US ELECTIONS: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been criticised for claiming he saw “thousands and thousands” of people cheering the 9/11 attacks from across the river in New Jersey.
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