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Shortly before a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl died in U.S. custody, her father signed a form stating that his daughter was in good health. But it's unclear how much the man understood on the form, which was written in English and read to him in Spanish by Border Patrol agents. Source

With a number of probes moving closer to the Oval Office, U.S. President Donald Trump and his attorney unleashed a fresh series of attacks Sunday on the investigators, questioning their integrity while categorically ruling out the possibility of a presidential interview with the special counsel. Source

U.S. President Donald Trump has told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan that Washington is working on extraditing a U.S.-based Muslim cleric Turkey accuses of orchestrating a failed coup in 2016, Turkey's foreign minister said on Sunday. "In Argentina, Trump told Erdogan they were working on extraditing [Fethullah] Gulen and other people," Mevlut Cavusoglu said, referring to the G20 summit where the leaders met two weeks ago. Source

Canada's national forecaster has issued special weather statements for all four Atlantic provinces, which are expecting some wintry weather on Monday and into Tuesday. Environment Canada says a slow-moving low-pressure system is slated to track south of Nova Scotia on Monday and cross Cape Breton Island in the evening, dumping more than 10 centimetres of snow on much of the province. Source

Olivia Legge was hoping there'd be a lot of presents at her sixth birthday party on Sunday, but she wasn't hoping to keep them for herself. Instead, she's giving them to two children — a two-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy — whose house burned down Friday night near Lethbridge. Source

Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna and environmental activists are emphasizing that more action is needed to combat climate change despite Saturday's deal reached by countries at a UN climate summit. In addition, some green groups and certain countries expressed frustration that more ambitious climate goals were not achieved during intense negotiations that ran into the weekend. Source

More than 40 people were injured in an explosion Sunday night at a Japanese restaurant in northern Japan, police said. The explosion occurred in Sapporo, the capital city of Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, and caused nearby apartment buildings and houses to shake. Source

The Paris prosecutor's office said on Sunday that a fifth person had died from their wounds following Tuesday's Strasbourg Christmas market shooting. An official with the prosecutor's office said the victim was a Polish national and gave no other details. Source

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's president on Sunday launched a scathing verbal attack at his reappointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, accusing his leadership of being corrupt and anti-national, casting doubt on any immediate end to the country's restive politics. Source

TORONTO -- The Ontario government is slashing millions of dollars in funding for programs that are aimed at providing students with extra skills and support, leaving school boards to figure out how students will be affected. Source