🇲🇾 ❌️ 🇮🇱 Malaysia has banned Israeli ships from docking in their ports and passing through their waters.

🔶️ "This sanction is a response to Israel’s actions that disregard the basic humanitarian principles and violate international law through the ongoing massacre and continuous cruelty against the Palestinian people.”

✒️ Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim

📎 MintPress News

JUST IN: 🇬🇧 UK Government to establish new digital asset legislation and plans to make the country a crypto hub.

@WatcherGuru

— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: Israel tells mediators time is running out for diplomatic solution with Hezbollah; Washington fears war in Lebanon will require U.S. to get involved - Kann

@Middle_East_Spectator

🗳 🇺🇸 "Efforts to remove Trump from the ballot are underway in several states, with lawsuits filed in at least California, New Mexico, New Hampshire, and Colorado."

🔶️ "In Colorado, the Supreme Court ruled, while Minnesota's Supreme Court dismissed a similar lawsuit."

🔶️ "Additionally, Democratic secretaries of state in swing states like Arizona and Michigan have been skeptical of exerting authority to disqualify Trump, though efforts are being made in some states to remove him on constitutional grounds, specifically related to his role in Jan 6."

💉 🇲🇽 🏴‍☠️ Chiapas "autodefensas" or vigilantes have announced their formation including the Civil Army of Indigenous People.

🔶️ With a history of rebellion + armed groups, Chiapas could face a conflict like that in Michoacán in 2014 when autodefensas and narcos faced off in trench warfare.

📎 Ioan Grillo

Blockchain security company CertiK has issued an urgent update to OKX wallet users on iPhone following the discovery of a major security vulnerability in the iOS application.

https://crypto.news/certik-urges-immediate-ios-update-for-okx-users-amidst-major-security-risk/

🇦🇷🖊📄

FIRST 30 MEASURES OF THE JUST ANNOUNCED JAVIER MILEI DEREGULATION PRESIDENTIAL DECREE:

1) Repeal of the Rental Law
2) Repeal of the Supply Law
3) Repeal of the Gondola Law
4) Repeal of the national purchase
5) Repeal of the price observatory
6) Repeal of the law industrial promotion
7) Repeal of the Trade Promotion Law.
8) Repeal of state partnership regimes allowing the privatization of state run companies
9) Repeal of the Sociedad del Estado legal company framework
10) Modernization of the labor regime
12) Reform of the customs code
13) Repeal of the land law
14) Modification of the jurisdiction law
15) Repeal of the law that prevents privatizations
16) Implementation of the open skies
17) Modification of the civil and commercial code
18) Elimination of price restrictions on prepaid medicines.
19) Deregulation of the telecommunications market
20) Deregulation of tourism.
21) Modification of the Civil and Commercial Code to guarantee that obligations contracted in foreign currency must be paid in the agreed currency.
22) Modification to the regulatory framework of prepaid medicine and social works.
23) Elimination of price restrictions on the prepaid industry.
24) Incorporation of prepaid medicine companies into the social work regime.
25) Establishment of electronic prenoscription to streamline service and minimize costs.
26) Modifications to the regime of pharmaceutical companies to promote competition and reduce costs.
27) Modification of the Companies Law so that football clubs can become public limited companies if they so wish.
28) Deregulation of satellite internet services.
29) Deregulation of the tourism sector by eliminating the monopoly of tourism agencies.
30) Incorporation of digital tools for automotive registration procedures.

🇦🇴🛢 Angola says it is leaving OPEC

Angola has announced it is leaving the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), local news agency ANGOP reported on Thursday, citing the oil minister.

Last month the wider OPEC+ oil producer group lowered Angola's oil output target to 1.11 million barrels per day (bpd).

The office of Angola's oil minister in response said it sent a note of protest to OPEC over the decision.

Angola's OPEC Governor Estevao Pedro was quoted by Bloomberg as saying at the time that the country was unhappy with its 2024 target and did not plan to stick to it.

#Angola #OPEC

@africaintel

🇸🇩 🏴‍☠️ "A supposed haven in Sudan falls to a genocidal militia. Many worry Sudan could end up like Libya, split into chunks controlled by rival factions. It could get even worse. The RSF may try to seize much more of the country, perhaps all of it."

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/12/20/a-supposed-haven-in-sudan-falls-to-a-genocidal-militia

https://archive.ph/K46l0

🗳 🇺🇳 🇵🇸 Another vote on Palestine yesterday - specifically on "the Palestinian people's right to self-determination" - and the US and Israel are even more isolated: only Micronesia and Nauru voted with them this time

📎 Arnaud Bertrand

At least 11 dead, including the gunman, in Prague university mass shooting.

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1737862085248536838