10 things you need to know today: November 27, 2015

Turkey's Erdogan proposes Paris meeting with Putin, France honors victims of terror attacks, and more

President of France Francois Hollande attends The National Tribute to The Victims of The Paris Terrorist Attacks
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1. Erdogan seeks meeting with Putin to defuse tensions over downing of jet

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that he hoped to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to ease rising tensions over Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane. Turkey says the bomber violated its airspace, but Putin says the aircraft was in Syrian skies. Erdogan said he and Putin will attend a summit in Paris next week, and, "We could sit and talk there." Since the plane was shot down Tuesday, Russia has deployed long-range air defense missiles to its base in Syria, and threatened economic retaliation.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.