🇫🇷⚡️- A member of the DGSI, France's internal intelligence agency, was found suicided on a site belonging to the French Interior Ministry.

He is the 3rd suicide within the DGSI in 6 months.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "We want to establish a demilitarized zone in southern Syria that stretches from Damascus to Mount Hermon," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "We are holding areas [in southern Syria] to ensure the security of Israeli citizens which is important for us," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

🇷🇺🇸🇩⚡- Sudan has offered Russia a 25-year-old deal that would allow Russia to have its first naval base in Africa, giving Russia a critical position overlooking the Red Sea channel and greatly extending the operational range of its fleet.

This port would allow up to 300 troops and up to 4 warships, including nuclear-powered ships.

In exchange for a naval base, the Sudanese military would receive advanced Russian anti-aircraft systems and other weapons at preferential prices.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: A Chinese Coast Guard vessel collided with a Japanese fishing boat in the Japanese waters surrounding the Senkaku Islands, located just northeast of Taiwan.

Note, Beijing claims the islands, known in Chinese as the Diaoyu Islands, as its own territory.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- Chinese internal media claims the Japanese fishing boat, Ruibao, used a Japanese Coast Guard vessel as escort to the Senkaku Islands to drop off military supplies in the middle of the night.

Chinese media claims two Chinese Coast Guard vessels were on sight to prevent the alleged military resupply mission.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- "Japan's Coast Guard said it intercepted and expelled two Chinese Coast Guard ships as they approached the fishing vessel in the early hours of Tuesday morning," - Reuters.

Japanese outlet Live Door News says the two armed Coast Guard ships weren't alone, and that two additional Chinese ships "with machine guns" were loitering in international waters just outside Senkaku Islands water-spaces.

🇷🇺🇪🇺⚡- "Russia does not intend to go to war with Europe, but if Europeans want to fight, then Moscow is ready for it now," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia may move to cut off Ukraine from the sea if Kiev continues acts of piracy against Russian ships," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

BREAKING:

Putin began meeting with Witkoff and Kushner in the Kremlin, Russian state media reports.

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🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- Deportation flights from the US to Venezuela have resumed, despite President Trump declaring Venezuelan airspace closed.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump's approval continues to slip from within the GOP particularly in Southern states. His approval in South Carolina among Republicans is now the lowest its been since 2015.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli Defense Minister Katz has postponed his visit to the US next week due to US's rising tensions with Venezuela," - al-Jazeera.

🇻🇦🇱🇧⚡- The Pope, during his visit to Lebanon, has called on Hezbollah to "lay down their weapons and pursue diplomacy."

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Witkoff-Putin talks are still ongoing at the Kremlin, lasting beyond three hours.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡- "Do not threaten our sovereignty because you will awaken the jaguar," - Gustavo Petro, Colombian President, to President Trump.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡- "Come to Colombia, Mr. Trump, I invite you, so you can participate in the destruction of the nine drug labs we destroy daily to prevent cocaine from reaching the US.

Without missiles, I have destroyed 18,400 drug labs during my administration. Come with me, and I'll show you how they're destroyed—one lab every 40 minutes.

But don't threaten our sovereignty, because you'll awaken the Jaguar. Attacking our sovereignty is declaring war. Don't damage two centuries of diplomatic relations.

You've already slandered me; don't continue down that path. If any country has helped stop thousands of tons of cocaine from reaching Americans, it's Colombia," - Gustavo Petro Colombian President, to President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump continues to insist the economy is good and calls complaints about affordability a "con job" by the Democrats.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- President Trump's Hanukkah party at the White House will be held on December 16th.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- “An Israeli attack on Lebanon to come within days or weeks.” - American assessments via i24.