U.S. president Barack Obama and russian president Vladimir Putin met away from media attention during the Cop-21 summit in Paris. In the Havana peacetalks, FARC leaders have outlined the importance of providing security guarantees to colombian civilians. Four policemen have been detained in connection to the murder of five young men killed in northern Rio de Janeiro. The Al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra front (operating in Syria) conducted a successful prisoner swap with the lebanese government. Chinese authorities ordered factories to shut, and allowed children to skip school, as smog levels reached record-high numbers.
