🇺🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦⚡️- President-elect Trump says he will use "military or economic coercion" to take the Panama Canal and Greenland.

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️- Trump says he won't use military force to annex Canada- but doesn't rule out economic force.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Trump refuses to answer a question about airstrikes against Iran.

🇺🇸🇸🇩⚡- US Treasury sanctions Hamdan Dagalo, the Commander-in-Chief of the Rapid Support Forces.

🇺🇸🇹🇷⚡- "Turkish President Erdogan is a friend of mine. He's a guy I like and respect. I think he respects me also," - Donald Trump, US President-elect.

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡- "The Turks have basically taken over Syria, They were after that land for 2,000 years," - Donald Trump, US President-elect.

🇺🇸⚡️- President-elect Trump has finished his press conference from Mar-A-Lago.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡️- The South Korean Defense Intelligence Agency says it has detected the movement of at least 250 North Korean transport erector launcher (TEL) systems to the Korean DMZ. TELs are capable of launching North Korean short-range and intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: The New York State Appeals Court has denied President-elect Trump's bid to delay his upcoming Friday sentencing in his Manhattan hush money trial.

🇧🇾🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian sources say Belarus has increased its military presence along the Ukrainian border in 4 different locations, Stolin, Lelchitsy, Mozyr and Gomel.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "Armenia is essentially a fascist state. This country was governed for almost 30 years by the fascist ideology. That is why fascism in Armenia must be destroyed. Either Armenia’s leadership will destroy the fascism, or we will. We have no other choice," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "Azerbaijan and Armenia to hold border delimitation talks in January," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan.

🇮🇷🇦🇿⚡- "It is a bit early to talk about this. Because we have not had any serious contacts with the current Iranian leadership," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, responding to a question on the possibility of improving relations with Iran now that they have a new President [Pezeshkian].

🇸🇾🇦🇿⚡- "Assad's dictatorship has already been consigned to the dustbin of history," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "The Zangezur corridor must open ... It will open," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan.

🇮🇷🇦🇿⚡- "After the terrorist attack on our embassy [in Tehran], not one one police officer entered the site for 40 minutes! This was in the center of their capital," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan.

🇮🇷🇦🇿⚡- "The Iranians deceived us. They told us they would execute the perpetrator of the attack [on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran], so we reopened our embassy. Iran has failed to carry out the execution," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "Armenia poses a threat to the entire region," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "We, as Azerbaijan, are not a source of danger for them [Armenia]. We want peace and cooperation in the South Caucasus, and they should not hinder us. They should not act as a geographical barrier between Turkey and Azerbaijan," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "If Yerevan does not need a peace treaty, then Baku does not need it either. We can live without a peace treaty," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan.

🇺🇸🇦🇿⚡- "The Soros era is over in America," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan.