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Ukraine claims responsibility for the assassination of a top Russian general in Moscow.

Plus, US officials warned Turkey could be preparing for a large-scale incursion into Syria.

And China's authorities try to reign in protests linked to unease over the country's sluggish

economy. Especially concerning for the government right now is that there's multiple streams of

discontent at once. So the government is not able to just kind of snap their fingers and fix things.

It's Tuesday, December 17th. I'm Kate Bullivan for the Wall Street Journal filling in for Luke Vargas.

And here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

We begin with a developing story from Russia. Ukraine says it killed a senior Russian general in an early morning bombing in Moscow,

a rare targeted assassination of a high-profile military official in the capital.

Russian authorities say Lieutenant General Igor Krilov was killed outside a residential building

along with his assistant after a device planted in a scooter exploded.

Khrilov was head of Russia's radiological and chemical defense forces.

Ukrainian officials said the killing was a special operation by the security service of Ukraine.

Yesterday, the security service named Krilov as a suspect in an investigation of war crimes

for allegedly ordering the use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine.

There was no immediate comment from Moscow on Kiev's claim of responsibility,

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