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An aircraft that Turkey said it shot down for violating its airspace on Tuesday. Haberturk TV Channel/European Pressphoto Agency

Your Tuesday Briefing

By CHRISTINE HAUSER

Good morning.

Here's what you need to know:

• Raising the alert.

President François Hollande of France meets with President Obama in Washington today as France presses its allies and friends to step up efforts against the Islamic State militants.

The U.S. State Department elevated its guidance to Americans to a "worldwide travel alert," an unusual step, until Feb. 24, saying information suggests that extremist groups "continue to plan terrorist attacks in multiple regions."

And Belgian authorities said Brussels would remain at the highest level of alert through the week. At least four of the Paris attackers had lived in Belgium.

• Kerry in Israel.

Secretary of State John Kerry, in his first visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories in more than a year, holds talks in Jerusalem today with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on ways to quell recent violence.

Six Israeli Jews have been killed by Palestinians in five days.

• Military action in Syria.

Russia says one of its jets crashed in Syria today, while Turkey says it shot down a military plane near the Syrian border after it violated Turkey's airspace, a statement said.

Separately, France is expanding its airstrikes against the Islamic State, using a newly arrived aircraft carrier in the region.

• Shooting at protests in Minneapolis.

Five people were shot and wounded late Monday near a police precinct in Minneapolis where demonstrators have been protesting the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man, the police said.

The gunmen fled.

• Vatican intrigue on trial.

A trial starting today will delve into the alleged theft of confidential documents used to write two tell-all books describing purported mismanagement in the Roman Catholic Church's bureaucracy.

Five people were indicted in the case by the Vatican prosecutors over the weekend.

• Ebola returns.

A 15-year-old boy died of Ebola in Liberia, a medical official said today, the first such fatality for months in a country declared free of the disease in September.

BUSINESS

• Jack Ma, chairman of the Internet retailing giant Alibaba, is in talks to buy The South China Morning Post newspaper, a source says, in an echo of The Washington Post's purchase by Amazon's founder, Jeffrey P. Bezos, in 2013.

• The blockbuster merger of the drug giants Pfizer and Allergan is putting new pressure on Congress and the White House to overhaul the corporate tax code.

Pfizer's $160 billion takeover of Ireland-based Allergan is the largest deal to date to avoid American taxes by reincorporating in a lower-tax country.

• Wall Street futures trading foreshadows declines in stocks today. European shares are down sharply, and Asian indexes ended mixed.

NOTEWORTHY

• Thanksgiving travel.

Thanksgiving week is one of the busiest travel periods of the year in the United States, and our colleagues at The Upshot analyze how we do it.

Here's one snippet: Few people are interested in flying on Tuesdays.

• Caveat to shoppers.

Just in time for Black Friday shoppers, research is out today on new malware that can infect retailers' payment systems.

• Still undefeated.

Mistakes, penalties, injuries and turnovers marked the "Monday Night Football" game, but in the end, the New England Patriots held off the Buffalo Bills with a 20-13 home victory.

• What to watch.

Ric Burns, the documentary filmmaker, chronicles the voyage of the Mayflower and some Thanksgiving myths in "American Experience: The Pilgrims" (8 p.m. Eastern, PBS).

If you're not up for a history lesson, there is "Jumanji," the 1995 fantasy about a boy who is stuck in a board game. He grows up to be an adult in a role played by Robin Williams (8 p.m. Eastern, AMC).

And here are your episode recaps for "Fargo," "Blindspot" and "Jessica Jones."

• A breast-feeding bonus.

Two recent studies suggest that mothers, not just babies, have much to gain from breast-feeding.

• In memoriam.

Adele Mailer, an artist and actress who married the novelist Norman Mailer — and was famously stabbed by him — died in Manhattan. She was 90.

And Austin H. Kiplinger, part of the Kiplinger family of financial publishers company, died at age 97.

BACK STORY

Bill Murray is a crazy, lovable, even iconic movie actor, but his claim to fame in 2015 is making the top of the list of Forbes magazine's biggest Hollywood flops of the year.

Besides being critically panned (an 8 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes), "Rock the Kasbah" managed to score the fifth-worst opening of all time for a film playing in 2,000 or more theaters: It averaged $731 in box office revenue per cinema.

Its star power — besides Mr. Murray, the lineup includes Bruce Willis, Zooey Deschanel and Kate Hudson — couldn't save the tale of a has-been band manager on a U.S.O. tour in Afghanistan.

Another example of big names and big disappointment was "Aloha," with Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone, at No. 9 on the list.

Forbes ranked films based on what percentage of their budgets they earned back at the theater as of Nov. 18.

That meant that even "Tomorrowland," with a mega-budget of $180 million and a worldwide box office take of only $209 million, made the top 15.

Others that flailed were "Jem and the Holograms" (No. 5), with a $2.3 million box office, and "Mortdecai" (No. 10), with $47.3 million.

Of course, there's still time for other 2015 movies to crash and burn. But Forbes says it can't resist issuing its list of turkeys around this time of year.

Victoria Shannon contributed reporting.

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