World News Update, what you need to know

Hong Kong pro-democracy protest leader Joshua Wong and two other leaders from the student group Scholarism have gone on a hunger strike.

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LONDON, Dec 1 AAP - Jailed pedophile Rolf Harris has abandoned his push to appeal 12 convictions for sexually assaulting four girls in the United Kingdom.

WASHINGTON, Dec 1 AFP - The United States is not ready to enforce a no-fly zone over Syria, the White House has said after reports it was in talks with Turkey about setting up a refugee safe haven in the north of the country.

WASHINGTON, Dec 1 AFP - President Barack Obama will seek to release funds aimed at equipping more US police officers with body cameras following the racially charged fatal shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson.

GENEVA, Dec 1 AFP - Targets to reduce the spread of Ebola by isolating patients and burying bodies safely have been reached in Liberia and Guinea, with Sierra Leone set to follow within weeks, the World Health Organization says.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 DPA - A Malaysian court has given Malaysia Airlines and the government until December 15 to reply to a negligence case filed against them over the disappearance of flight MH370.

BAGHDAD, Dec 1 AFP - At least 16 Iraqi border guards have been killed in a dawn assault by the Islamic State jihadist group on their post near the Syrian frontier.