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BBC news with Debbie Russ.

Republicans and democrats in the U.S Senate have clashed over the impeachment of President Trump. The chamber's democratic leader Chuck Schumer accused the Republican majority of being blindly loyal to Mr.Trump. The majority leader Mitch McConnell said house demarcates have been motivated by partisan rage. 

Russia's security agency, the FSB says one of its officials has been killed by a gunman, who opened fire outside its headquarters in Moscow. Five people have been treated for injuries. The FSB said the assailant had been eliminated.

After week of protests and deadlock, the former education minister Hassan Diab has been asked to form a new government in Lebanon. So far, he has only got the backing of the Shiite movement, Hezbollah and his allies and there have already been demonstrations against his appointment.

The government of Haiti says it will demand action from the United Nations after a recent study found girls as young as 11 had been sexually abused by UN personnel. The Foreign Minister Bocchit Edmond said the abuses had to face justice.

The French prime minister édouard Philippe has appealed to Unions to ease their strikes against pension reforms to allow people to visit their families at Christmas. But Union leader dismissed his call, saying Mr. Philippe had not heard what the street had been saying.

A court in Nigeria has ruled that sex work is not a crime and awarded damages to woman arrested two years ago on allegations they were engaged in prostitution.

Venezuela's supreme court has banned members of the opposition-controlled national assembly from voting online. Many members are in exile or hiding because of government harassment.

People in Sudan have been celebrating the first anniversary of the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir. The long-serving leader was sentenced to two years imprisonment on Saturday in the first of many cases against him.

That's the latest BBC news.