🇵🇾❗️🇻🇪 — In a statement, the government of Paraguay officially recognizes Edmundo González Urrutia as the president-elect of Venezuela and supports his right to take office on January 10, in accordance with the Venezuelan people's will. See the full statement below:

The government of the Republic of Paraguay announces that:

1. It recognizes Mr. Edmundo González Urrutia as the president-elect of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and, as such, affirms his right to assume leadership of his nation on January 10, in accordance with the sovereign will of the Venezuelan people expressed on July 28.

2. It reiterates Paraguay's firm and unwavering support for the Venezuelan people's right to live in democracy, within a rule of law, with absolute respect for their freedoms and fundamental guarantees.

3. It demands that Ambassador Ricardo Capella and accredited diplomatic personnel in Paraguay leave the country within the next 48 hours.

Presidencia Paraguay (@PresidenciaPy) 🖇

🇵🇾❗️🇻🇪 — In a statement, the government of Paraguay officially recognizes Edmundo González Urrutia as the president-elect of Venezuela and supports his right to take office on January 10, in accordance with the Venezuelan people's will. See the full statement below:

The government of the Republic of Paraguay announces that:

1. It recognizes Mr. Edmundo González Urrutia as the president-elect of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and, as such, affirms his right to assume leadership of his nation on January 10, in accordance with the sovereign will of the Venezuelan people expressed on July 28.

2. It reiterates Paraguay's firm and unwavering support for the Venezuelan people's right to live in democracy, within a rule of law, with absolute respect for their freedoms and fundamental guarantees.

3. It demands that Ambassador Ricardo Capella and accredited diplomatic personnel in Paraguay leave the country within the next 48 hours.

Presidencia Paraguay (@PresidenciaPy) 🖇

🇺🇸❌🇲🇽 — President-elected Donald Trump says name of the Gulf of Mexico will be changed to Gulf of America

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🇺🇸❌🇨🇦 — President-elected Donald Trump on Canada:

“Why are we supporting a country 200+ billion a year? They should be a state of America!”

🇺🇸🔥📸 — The Palisades Fire seen continuing to burn North of Santa Monica, from a Plane landing earlier at Los Angeles International Airport.

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🇺🇸🔥📹 — Terrified passengers aboard a flight out of LAX watch as they fly straight over and into a smoke cloud from the Palisades Fire

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🇨🇴🤝🇻🇪🇻🇪 — Gustavo Petro sent a representative to Nicolás Maduro's inauguration in Venezuela. When Colombian Ambassador Milton Rengifo was asked about the arrest warrant for Edmundo González, he responded, "I wasn’t aware, I just got back from the countryside."

🇷🇺🛳 Russia's naval deployment in the Mediterranean on the morning of January 11

Russian vessels denied entering Tartus and Alexandr Shabalin suspected of weapons transfer at Oran, Algeria.

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TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 is already making 4nm chips — yield and quality reportedly on par with Taiwan fabs

TSMC has started producing chips at its Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, using its 4nm-class process technology, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Reuters. This marks the first time such a cutting-edge production node has been manufactured in the United States. The confirmation from a high-ranking official comes months after the first unofficial information emerged that the fab was mass-producing chips for Apple.

"For the first time ever in our country's history, we are making leading-edge 4nm chips on American soil, American workers — on par in yield and quality with Taiwan," Raimondo told Reuters.

TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona is manufacturing at least three processor models: the A16 Bionic system-on-chip used in Apple's iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus; the main processor of Apple's S9 system-in-package for smartwatches, which has two 64-bit cores and a quad-core neural engine; and an AMD Ryzen 9000-series CPU.

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📝 Mayte Chummia on X: "This marks the first time such a cutting-edge production node has been manufactured in the United States."

🇨🇴/🇻🇪 From the border with Venezuela, former President Álvaro Uribe requested an international military intervention to overthrow the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

"What we are asking for is an intervention preferably endorsed by the United Nations that dislodges these tyrants from power."

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🇺🇸🇨🇴 President Donald J. Trump in 2020 on X:

"Congratulations to former President Álvaro Uribe, a hero, former recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and an ally of our Country in the fight against CASTRO-CHAVISMO! I will always stand with our Colombian friends!"

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🇻🇪 Venezuelan Opposition figure supports foreign intervention to depose Maduro "After going all the way, including winning an election with 70% of the votes, this proposal must be seriously considered. I dare say that the vast majority of Venezuelans agree."

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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 US president-elect Donald Trump intends to push Ukraine to lower its age of connoscription in an effort to stabilise the country’s front lines ahead of direct negotiations with Russia.

Speaking to US network ABC News on Sunday, Mike Waltz, Trump’s national security pick, gave the clearest picture yet of the new administration’s plan to end the war.

Waltz said that its first steps would be to open dialogue with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin — to whom the US has not spoken directly since the war began — and to ask Kyiv to mobilise more men to stabilise Ukraine’s front lines ahead of negotiations.

Ukraine’s connoscription age was lowered from 27 to 25 in April, but the average age of a Ukrainian soldier is 43. Lowering the age is politically unpopular and Ukraine has said it wants to protect its future generations.

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📝 Mike Waltz: "Their draft age right now is 26, not 18. They could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers."

🇺🇸⚠️🇻🇪🇻🇪 —The United States government has officially released an updated poster detailing the increased reward for anyone providing information leading to the capture of Nicolás Maduro.

🇻🇪🇻🇪❌🇦🇷 — Nicolás Maduro called Argentina's president, Javier Milei, a "Nazi Zionist" and a "social sadist":

"The far-right led by a Nazi Zionist, a social sadist named Javier Milei, along with the North American empire, believes they can impose a president on Venezuela. No one in this world can impose a president on Venezuela, they have not been able to, and they never will."