COLOMBIA: The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia will release a Colombian soldier.
MEXICO: Some of the family members from Mexico's 43 missing students held a prayer vigil outside the presidential residence of Los Pinos.
IRAQ: The latest ISIS-appointed governor of Mosul was killed in coalition airstrikes.
THAILAND: Thailand declared disaster zones in eight of its southern provinces after floods killed at least 13 people.
UNITED STATES: Demonstrators protesting police shootings of unarmed black men marched through Oakland, California on Christmas night
