🇮🇶 Rudaw: Iraq’s National Intelligence Service has denied a report claiming the Iraqi government received warning messages from an Arab country and a Western intelligence agency about imminent military strikes on Iraqi territory.

🇮🇱🇸🇾🇺🇸 Kan: Israel asked the Trump administration not to remove all the sanctions on the Syrian regime, in favor of future negotiations and was refused. Two Israeli sources said that the U.S. administration promised “compensation.” x.com/kann_news/st...

🇹🇭🇰🇭 Residents in the Svay Chek district of Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province record the smoke cloud from a Thai F-16 strike in the area.

🇮🇱🇮🇷 Ynet: Israeli security officials are warning that Iran is significantly accelerating its ballistic missile production and could manufacture up to 3,000 missiles per year if current trends continue, according to assessments cited in the report.

LOL @ pete hegseth

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳A U.S. official told the Associated Press this was a "consented boarding" and that the vessel voluntarily stopped to allow U.S. forces to board.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳 "President Trump has been clear: the blockade of sanctioned oil tankers departing from, or bound for, Venezuela will remain in full force until Maduro’s criminal enterprise returns every stolen American asset.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳 The seized Chinese shadow tanker CENTURIES has valid registration in Panama, its licensing is legitimate and up-to-date as of early 2025, and operated by a Hong Kong based firm. The tanker is not under US, EU or UK sanctions.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇻🇪 The seizure included a NON-sanctioned, China-based oil tanker with a history of transporting Venezuelan crude oil to Chinese refineries. - NYT.

🇺🇸📁 Newly released FBI interview notes describe the deliberate and systematic nature of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse: • The notes show he rejected victims based on race, repeatedly refusing girls he described as “Spanish or dark,” and instructed recruiters to continue finding others.

🇹🇭🇰🇭 Thai Air Force F-16 fighter jets carried out additional airstrikes in Veal Veaeng, Pursat Province, targeting alleged fortified bases, mortar positions, and trenches.

🇺🇸 Jeffrey Epstein brought a 14-year-old girl to Mar-a-Lago and asked President Trump, “This is a good one, right?” Donald Trump then nodded and smiled in agreement.

🇺🇸 The DOJ tells Congress that the Epstein files release is “incomplete,” and that additional releases are expected by the end of the year. — AP

🇺🇦🇷🇺 The Ukrainian State Emergency Service reports that eight people were killed and 27 injured by the Russian drone and cluster munitions strike on Odessa this evening.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 An IDF sweatshirt in the closet of Jeffrey Epstein.

🇺🇸 Lolita quotes written on the breasts and bodies of young women, featured in the Epstein files.

🇺🇸 Young black woman swinging from a rope – photo released as part of the Epstein files.

🇺🇸 Jeffrey Epstein seen with very young children, one slightly out of frame and in another picture kissing one on the head.

🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇷🇺 FT: Britain has ruled out transferring an estimated £8 billion in Russian frozen assets to Ukraine after the attempt by the EU yesterday collapsed this early Friday morning.

🇺🇸NYT: Victims of Jeffrey Epstein are furious and disappointed at the lack of transparency in the newly released Epstein files, which have been heavily redacted.

🇺🇸🇫🇷Photos labeled ‘Paris’ in the newly released Epstein files unsealed today included images of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell taking lewd photos while aboard a private jet.

🇹🇭🇰🇭 The F-16 strikes targeted a casino in Veal Veaeng, Pursat Province. • Image from the struck casino in Pursat, Cambodia.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱The Office of the Israeli Prime Minister announced that today Israel and Lebanon held a meeting to discuss continued efforts to to disarm Hezbollah in Naqoura, Lebanon, under U.S. auspices and in the frame work of international mechanism.

🇺🇸 President Donald Trump keeping 300 Illinois National Guard troops federalized until April despite no missions

🇫🇷 The French Ministry of Sports, Youth and Community Work announce they have been hacked. The data of around 3.5M homes has been stolen by unknown hackers.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇮🇳 QENDIL was returning to Russia's Ust-Luga Port, after unloading oil at India's Port of Sikka, which serves the world's largest refinery, Jamnagar.

🇺🇸 18 Navy SEALS Were Disciplined For Racist Harassment Of Black SEAL One racist meme sent to the SEAL in 2022 was described in the investigation as "Slave in Chains." Another meme sent in 2022 was titled "Monkey Face" and depicted the SEAL in uniform with his face distorted to look like a monkey.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 BREAKING: Initial reports claim that the Head of Russia's GRU Unit 29155 Andrei Averyanov has been killed in the Ukrainian attack on the Russian QENDIL shadow tanker.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 BREAKING: Ukraine has struck yet another Russian shadow tanker, QENDIL, but this time in the Mediterranean. The ship has suffered critical damage – no coast guard has yet responded to provide assistance.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Putin Statement: Russia agrees to negotiate and end the conflict in Ukraine; the ball is entirely on the side of Kiev and its European sponsors.

🇹🇭🇰🇭 Thai airstrikes against Poi Pet, western Cambodia.

🇺🇸 White House: The United States has issued a new presidential proclamation expanding restrictions on the entry of foreign nationals, citing national security risks, weak vetting systems and poor information-sharing by several governments.

🇮🇳🇧🇩 India summoned Bangladesh's High Commissioner Riaz Hamidullah on December 17, 2025, in response to recent threats against the Indian High Commission in Dhaka and provocative remarks by Bangladeshi politician Hasnat Abdullah,

🇦🇺 Reuters: Sydney police charge Naveed Akram with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and terrorism, over the Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack that killed 15.

🇺🇸🇵🇰 Pakistan’s Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir is expected to visit Washington in the coming weeks for talks with President Trump. The meeting, their third in six months, is expected to focus on Trump’s proposed Gaza stabilization force.

🇺🇸 U.S. President Trump questions why there weren’t more security cameras on Brown University, following a mass shooting that left 11 injured with the suspect still at large.

🇦🇺 Naveed Akram, the surviving perpetrator of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, has been charged with 59 criminal offenses, including 15 counts of murder and one count of terrorism. >LEAKLIV:/ @leakliv

🇨🇴🇨🇱🇻🇪 "[Venezuelan President] Maduro is a dictator because he concentrates power, however there is no evidence in Colombia that he is a drug trafficker. That's a US narrative.

🇺🇸🇿🇦 South African authorities raided a US refugee facility in Johannesburg. During the raid, South African authorities temporarily detained U.S. staff who have been processing White Afrikaner refugees. >LEAKLIV:/ @leakliv

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 WSJ: U.S. Special Envoy Witkoff will meet with European leaders and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy this weekend to further continue negotiations on a peace deal. The decision to send Witkoff indicates that the U.S. is ramping pressure to narrow differences and finalize a draft of a peace deal.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱 Reuters: The International Stabilization Force (ISF) will not be responsible for directly fighting or disarming Hamas, but the general framework for the ISF and the process of disarming Hamas is still being worked out.

🇺🇦🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷🇵🇱🇮🇹 Berliner Morgenpost: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to visit Berlin on Monday to meet German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

🇸🇾🇮🇱 Two civilians were detained after their vehicle was stopped at an IDF checkpoint between the villages of al-Ajraf and Umm Batnah in central Quneitra, roughly 60 km south-west of Damascus.

🇱🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸🇫🇷 Al-Akhbar: Key diplomatic talks on Lebanon are intensifying in Paris, with Lebanese army commander Rodolphe Haykal meeting French, U.S., and Saudi officials. The U.S. is pushing to reduce the UNIFIL peacekeeping force's size, citing concerns it could provide cover for Hezbollah.

🇬🇧🇮🇱 The Guardian: ICC prosecutor Karim Khan says a British official warned him in April 2024 that seeking arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant could prompt the UK to cut ICC funding and consider leaving the Rome Statute.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Hungarian prime-minister, Viktor Orbán, on X/Twitter: Today, the Brusselians are crossing the Rubicon. At noon, a written vote will take place that will cause irreparable damage to the Union.

🇮🇷🇵🇰 The foreign ministers of Iran and Pakistan, Abbas Araghchi and Muhammad Ishaq Dar, held a meeting on the sidelines of the International 'Peace and Trust' forum in Ashgabat. The ministers discussed bilateral cooperation and exchanged views on regional developments.

🇺🇸 President Trump has signed an executive order protecting AI from state law violations.

🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇻🇪 US preparing to seize more tankers off Venezuela's coast after first ship taken, sources say The new U.S. tactic focuses on the activities of what is called the shadow fleet of tankers that transports sanctioned oil to China, the largest buyer of crude from Venezuela and Iran.

🇮🇷🇺🇳 Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Behrouz Kamalvandi has stated the current IAEA safeguards agreement is "not designed for wartime" and requires amendments.