🇺🇸🇹🇷🇷🇺⚡- Turkey is close to "giving up" the Russian-made S-400 missile defense system, as the country "does not even use it," Bloomberg reports, citing the US Envoy Tom Barrack.

In return, Turkey is keen to return to the F-35 jet program.

🇺🇸🕋⚡️- The countries that President Trump has frozen immigration from since the National Guard shooting only represents around 15% of the intake from the Islamic world over the last decade.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Reuters reports.

Members of the nationalist women’s organization Collectif Némèsis unfurl a banner in front of the Strasbourg Christmas market with the text:

“6428 rapes and attempted rapes by foreigners in 2024. Dear Santa, remigrate the rapists!”

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🇪🇸🇪🇭🇲🇦⚡- Spain recognizes Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara.

🇲🇱⚡- JNIM ambushed yet another convoy of fuel tankers near Bougouni, southern Mali.

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇻🇪⚡- Turkey's Erdogan called Venezuela's Maduro, urging Caracas to keep communication lines with the White House open.

🇩🇪🇮🇱⚡- German Chancellor Merz arrives in Israel.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi and Saudi-backed Yemeni officials have withdrawn from all headquarters in Aden, UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council controlled Yemen.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮⚡- DR Congo journalist Stanis Tshiamala says the battle for the major town of Luvungi has begun - South Kivu, eastern DR Congo.

The report therefore confirms the fall of all of the Lubarika heights to the M23. Over the past 24 hours, Congo has been airstriking Kamaniola and the N5 route nonstop, amid a major build-up of Burundian armed forces as reinforcements to the area.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi forces have been asked to withdraw from all Southern Transitional Council controlled Yemeni territory, including the Mayun Island.

Israeli Channel 12:

Netanyahu ordered the arrest of 70 settlers responsible for committing acts of violence in the West Bank.

Netanyahu ordered the evacuation of 14 settlement outposts in the West Bank, which are classified as a source of Jewish terrorism.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡️- Former Russian President Medvedev endorses Elon Musk's recent crusade against the EU in response to his companies being roped into the US-EU trade war.

🇨🇳🇯🇵⚡️ - Chinese J-15 fighter jets used their fire control radar to lock onto Japanese aircraft in 2 separate incidents near the disputed Okinawan islands on Saturday.

The Chinese J-15s were reportedly launched from the Liaoning aircraft carrier, which was operating to the south of the Okinawan islands. These incidents come amid a large buildup of Chinese naval vessels across the Taiwan Theater and deteriorating Chinese-Japan relations after statements by Japan's prime minister that Tokyo could respond to Chinese military action against Taiwan.