🗣 Trump on Thailand-Cambodia: 'We have them stopped'

"They started shooting at each other 2 days ago, that wasn't good. We got it, I think, straightened out today," he told reporters.

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📑 US cut intelligence to Israel over Gaza conduct — report

During the Biden administration, US intelligence temporarily suspended sharing critical information with Israel — including a live drone feed over Gaza — over concerns about civilian casualties and the mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners, Reuters reports.

US officials reportedly grew increasingly worried Israel was not abiding by the laws of war when using American intelligence.

However, access was restored after Israel provided new assurances.

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✍️ Paris meeting on Ukraine is cancelled — report

The planned high-level talks in Paris on the Ukraine conflict will not take place, radio RMF FM reported, citing a source in the French Elysee Palace.

The meeting was to include senior US, Ukrainian, French, German, and British officials to discuss President Trump’s proposed peace plan.

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🔍 Trump envoys to meet Zelensky in Berlin this weekend — report

President Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders in Berlin this weekend, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Witkoff will also hold separate talks with counterparts from France, Britain, and Germany on Sunday and Monday.

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💬 EU asset freeze sets 'dangerous precedent' for global financial system — Expert

The EU’s decision to permanently freeze Russian assets is "an attack on the sovereignty of UN member states" and a form of "plundering," Cuban international relations expert Yosmany Fernández Pacheco told Sputnik.

"It sets a dangerous precedent for the selective confiscation of a sovereign nation's assets and represents an attack on the global financial system and multilateralism in financial relations," Yosmany added.

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🇰🇵 Kim Jong-un welcomes troops back from combat deployment in Russia

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un personally attended a ceremony for an army engineering unit that had just completed a 120-day overseas deployment in Russia’s Kursk region.

State media KCNA praised the troops for displaying "heroic conduct" and fulfilling orders from the ruling party while carrying out "combat and engineering tasks" in Russia.

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📑 Italy joins Belgium to block EU plan to send €210B in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine

Italy has thrown its weight behind Belgium in opposing the EU's proposal to seize and transfer frozen Russian state assets to Ukraine, according to an internal document seen by US media.

Italy, Belgium, Malta, and Bulgaria are urging the Commission to explore alternative, lower-risk options instead of the politically and legally risky confiscation of sovereign assets held at Euroclear in Belgium.

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🪖🇩🇪 Germany to lay barbed wire to 'boost' NATO’s eastern flank in newest militarization spasm

German forces are due to take part in Poland’s ongoing Operation Eastern Shield military exercises near Russia’s border in 2026 under the premise of the old useless “Russian threat” narrative, Bild reports.

🟠 German soldiers will build fortifications, lay barbed wire, and set up tank barriers, while engineers will construct a border wall

🟠 Quick Reaction Alert squadron of the German Air Force is already stationed in the Polish city of Malbork, just 60 kilometers from Russia’s Kaliningrad region

The move shows NATO's ongoing eastward expansion, despite Russia’s repeated denials of any intention to attack the alliance.

The new US National Security Strategy urges NATO to stop being seen as a constantly expanding force.

Germany seems to be missing that message

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💵🇪🇺 'Ursula “Pfizer” von der Leyen tries to steal Russian sovereign reserves, undermining the whole US-led global financial system - Dmitriev

Russia’s special presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev also called out the EC chief for "lecturing" Trump about elections.

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🚨🚨🇷🇺 First footage of liberated Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk)

Pokrovsk was freed on December 1.

It was an anchor of Ukraine’s Donbass fortification belt, its loss became a disaster for Ukraine.

Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🟠 First footage of liberated Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk)

🟠 Kim Jong-un welcomes troops back from combat deployment in Russia

🟠 Witkoff, Kushner to meet Zelensky in Berlin this weekend

🟠 Iran seizes foreign tanker carrying smuggled fuel in Sea of Oman

🟠 EU asset freeze sets 'dangerous precedent' for global financial system — expert

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️ In response to Ukrainian terrorist attacks, the Russian Armed Forces conducted strikes with long-range attack UAVs and high-precision weapons, including Kinzhal hyperesonic missiles, targeting defence and energy infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces

🟠 Russian forces continue clearing the settlements of Dimitrov and Grishino located north-east and north-west to Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) from remaining Ukrainian militants

🟠 Russian air and missile forces struck port infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces, arms storage sites, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian troops and mercenaries in 142 areas

🟠 Air defense superiority: two HIMARS missiles and 169 UAVs were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,355 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🇺🇸 US eyes giving NATO Article 5-style security guarantee to Ukraine – reports

💬 "We want to give the Ukrainians a security guarantee that will not be a blank check on the one hand but will be strong enough on the other hand. We are willing to send it to Congress to vote on it," Axios cited a US official as saying.

There could be three separate agreements on peace, security guarantees, and reconstruction regarding Ukraine, according to the official.

👉 US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are due to meet Zelensky in Berlin on Monday to discuss progress on Trump’s peace deal on Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov previously recalled that Moscow is ready to discuss security guarantees by taking into account interests of all parties and to achieve a balance of these interests on a collective basis that reflects current realities.

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