Berlin, Uber, Donald Trump

• Anis Amri, the suspect in the attack at a Berlin Christmas market, was killed in a shootout on the outskirts of Milan.Here’s a timeline of events in the life of Mr. Amri: his crossing of the Mediterranean, the years spent in Italian prisons and his contact with a Salafist preacher. His journey also underscores a vexing problem: how to handle masses of virtually stateless wanderers.
As Berliners returned to Christmas markets after Monday’s attack, the mood was subdued.
Germany arrested two Kosovar brothers on suspicion of planning an attack on a shopping mall. Separately, Australia also said it believed it had averted a terrorist plot in Melbourne — possibly on Christmas Day — with the arrest of five people.
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• President-elect Donald J. Trump added more turbulence to U.S. foreign policy, posting on Twitter that the country should greatly “expand its nuclear capability” after comments by the Russian president. He also pressured President Obama to veto a United Nations resolution critical of Israel.Continue reading the main stor

   Mr. Trump’s transition team is asking employees at the State Department to give details of gender equality programs, fanning fears of a rollback.
And the Obama administration is dismantling a dormant national registry program for visitors from countries with active terrorist groups after Mr. Trump seemed to suggest that the attack on a Christmas market in Germany validated his proposal to bar Muslims from entering the U.S.

• The Syrian government controls all of Aleppo for the first time since 2012.The last evacuations from rebel-held areas of the city represent a turning point in the war and a morale-building victory for President Bashar al-Assad’s troops.

roved the creation of a 20 billion euro fund to support the country’s troubled banking industry.
Monte dei Paschi di Siena is the first in line to receive state funds after the bank said that it failed to raise sufficient capital from investors.

• Two Baltic cities are in a feud over which had the world’s first decorated Christmas tree.

Riga, the capital of Latvia, says it was first, in 1510. Estonia’s Tallinn claims a much earlier event, in 1441. Civic pride and tourist dollars are at stake.