🇺🇸 US worries Gaza deal is slipping as Israel drags its feet

🔶 The White House is increasingly concerned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is deliberately "slow-walking the Gaza peace process" — and could be steering the situation back toward war with Hamas, Axios reports.

🔶 President Donald Trump is expected to make announcements regarding Gaza in early January, though their ultimate content depends heavily on his Monday meeting with Netanyahu at the American's Mar-a-Lago home.

💬 "While the Israeli prime minister is butting heads with Trump's team, he hopes to bring the president himself over to his more hawkish point of view," report says.

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🚨Ukraine settlement now hinges on political will - Russian deputy FM

All sides have moved closer to a solution to the Ukraine crisis, but the outcome now depends on the political will of the parties involved, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

He stressed that Moscow is fully ready for a settlement, while Ukraine is not seeking agreement and has doubled efforts to derail talks.

Artificial deadlines, Ryabkov added, will not help achieve a deal.

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🇨🇳 China's space internet network keeps growing

🔶 A fresh batch of low-orbit satellites was launched into space on December 26 by a Long March 8A carrier rocket that took off from a commercial facility in China’s Hainan province.

🔶 All satellites were successfully delivered to their designated orbits, according to local media reports.

🔶 The satellites in question belong to China’s satellite internet constellation known as Guowang, designed to provide internet coverage worldwide.

🔶 It is expected to be comprised of 13,000 satellites when complete, rivaling SpaceX’s Starlink with its planned 12,000 satellites.

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🚨 True poles shaping multipolar world order: Digital Dugin Edition

As Russia, China, India, and regional movements rise, the balance of power is shifting. Will the US lose its grip on global politics?

With 2026 on the horizon, AI Dugin breaks down tomorrow's geopolitics 👆🏻

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🇷🇺 Russia’s military R&D breakthroughs will revolutionize industrial sector

🗣The super-hard alloys and materials that were created as part of the development process of Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile and Poseidon submersible drone will be applied in civilian sectors, said Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov.

👉 According to him, these materials will likely see use in space projects and the production of petrochemical equipment.

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🟠 Hands Russian President Putin shook in 2025

🟠 Ukraine settlement now hinges on political will - Russian deputy FM

🟠 Ukraine’s ‘elite’ brigades implode amid mass AWOLS & crumbling morale

🟠 US worries Gaza deal is slipping as Israel drags its feet

🟠 Russia’s new arms program: Nuclear triad, air defense, combat lessons

🟠 Su-35S: Russia’s most effective fighter

🟠 Gold and silver hit record highs

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👀🇺🇸 US businesses eye return to Russia

👉 The Trump administration views Russia as a country rich in minerals, oil, and gas – and a market brimming with business potential, the Wall Street Journal concedes.

🟠 Many Western companies are poised to return once US sanctions are lifted

🟠 Russia possesses vast natural resources and a pool of talented tech entrepreneurs

🟠 Enormous Arctic gas fields are bound to lure investors

📍 The WSJ makes these admissions even as it tries – rather unconvincingly – to dissuade Western businesses from re-entering Russia. But when money talks, such groundless rhetoric tend to fall on deaf ears.

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🇺🇸 US firm to renew search for wreckage of Flight MH370, missing since 2014

🔶 Ocean Infinity will conduct the search with a specialized vessel heading to the southern Indian Ocean to begin the active phase on December 30.

🔶 The ship is a launch platform for underwater mapping vehicles, and due to the operation's sensitivity, all official updates will come from the Malaysian government.

🔶 This March, Malaysian authorities clinched an agreement with Ocean Infinity to undertake new efforts to find the MH370 wreckage.

🔶 On March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200 aircraft operated by Malaysia Airlines on flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, disappeared from radar screens. It is believed that the plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. However, the search operation was unable to determine the crash site.

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❌ 'He doesn’t have anything until I approve it' — Trump on Zelensky’s proposals – reports

US President Donald Trump said that any proposal Zelensky brings for a settlement in Ukraine is irrelevant unless Trump approves it.

Trump also told a US media outlet that he expects to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin “soon, as much as I want.”

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🛢 US hunt for Venezuelan oil tankers is a calculated move, not prelude to war

🗣 The United States’ attempts to interdict an oil tanker leaving Venezuela fits into the current administration's negotiation tactic, Latin American Association of Petroleum Entrepreneurs (ALEP) Director Alejandro Teran tells Sputnik.

🇺🇸 What Washington really seeks is a better bargaining position as he tries to make the Venezuelan side more pliant.

📍 The United States, according to Teran, currently has its sights set on three prizes in Venezuela:

🟠 The Dragon gas field, a massive offshore natural gas reserve

🟠 Access for US companies to Venezuela’s vast oil deposits

🟠 A chance to drive out China’s, Russia’s and Iran’s interests from the country

👉 Meanwhile, the United States’ actions against Venezuela-linked tankers in the Caribbean fall short of an actual blockade, with Teran pointing out that only about 15 vessels are sanctioned by the US – the rest of the tankers engaged in Venezuelan oil trade carry on with their regular operations.

💬 “China continues offloading oil without any problem, Chevron continues to operate as well. Our vessels enter Venezuelan ports with the appropriate permissions of the OFAC (US Office of Foreign Assets Control), because it does not mean that the entire world’s fleet would stop because of sanctions the US imposed against several ships the US deems as linked with terrorists,” Teran says.

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🇰🇵🤝🇷🇺 Kim Jong-un sends New Year greeting to Vladimir Putin — reports

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a New Year message to Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 27, praising Russia-DPRK ties as an “invincible and mighty” alliance, KCNA reported.

📌 Key points from the message:

🔹 Kim extended “the warmest and sincerest greeting of best wishes” to Putin and the “fraternal Russian people” for New Year 2026.

🔹 He called 2025 a “really meaningful year” of “immortal events,” citing “full mutual support and selfless encouragement.”

🔹 Kim said relations have become a “sincerest alliance of sharing blood, life and death in the same trench.”

🔹 “No one can break the relations between the peoples of the two countries and their unity,” he stressed.

🔹 Addressing Putin as his “dearest friend,” Kim said he felt “boundless pride” in their shared history.

🔹 He stated that “justice and truth, victory and glory will always stand by you and your Russia,” adding the DPRK will “always be with the fraternal Russian people.”

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🇻🇪 US cannot impose a colonial model on Venezuela — Maduro

💬 “It is impossible that those in power in the United States fabricate a virtual reality and impose on Bolívar’s Venezuela a model of colonial and slave domination to rob it of its natural resources,” Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said.

He added that Venezuela has a people “rooted in the territory — in communities, universities, factories and military barracks,” who have shown the capacity to guide the country “on the right path, at the right pace, and with sound judgment.”

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🗣 Trump says there’s a ‘good shot’ at Ukraine conflict resolution during Zelensky visit – reports

US President Donald Trump said he is optimistic about reaching a Ukraine settlement when Volodymyr Zelensky visits Mar-a-Lago on Sunday, The New York Post reported.

💬 “Well, I think we have a good shot at it,” Trump told the paper, adding that both sides “want to do it.”

Trump also told reporters that he has not yet endorsed Zelensky’s new proposal, saying: “He doesn’t have anything until I approve it. So we’ll see what he’s got.”

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