Explosions reported near US Consulate in Iraq; Iran claims responsibility (abcnews.go.com)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed it was targeting “the headquarters of spies.”...
Tearful Russian billionaire who spent $2 billion on art tells jurors Sotheby's cheated him (abcnews.go.com)
Houthi rebels fire cruise missile at American destroyer in Red Sea (www.euronews.com)
Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea on Sunday, but a US fighter jet shot it down in the latest attack roiling global shipping amid Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, officials said....
Israel-Gaza live updates: 1 dead, 13 injured in car-ramming attacks near Tel Aviv (abcnews.go.com)
Ukrainian Sources: We Just Shot Down Two Of Russia’s Best Command Planes (www.forbes.com)
Ukrainian air-defenses reportedly shot down two of the Russian air force’s rarest and most valuable command aircraft on Sunday: a Beriev A-50 radar early-warning plane and an Ilyushin Il-22 airborne command post....
Terror attack leaves wounded and dead in israel, Hamas claims responsibility (www.jpost.com)
He Warned of Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine. Then He Was Thrown in a Russian Jail and Tortured (www.wsj.com)
Now in exile in Boston and working for MIT, Andriy Tuz wonders if he will ever be able to go home again...
Tories facing 1997-style general election wipeout (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Pope encourages Marxists and Christians to fight corruption, uphold rule-of-law - Vatican News (www.vaticannews.va)
People who are poor, unemployed, homeless, immigrants, or exploited, as well as all those killed by past dictatorships and turned into rubbish by the “throwaway culture” of the present: the level of a society’s civilisation is measured by the way they are treated, the Pope said....
North Korea says it tested solid-fuel missile tipped with hypersonic weapon (apnews.com)
North Korea on Monday said it flight-tested a new solid-fuel intermediate-range missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead as it pursues more powerful, harder-to-detect weapons designed to strike remote U.S. targets in the region....
Africa’s biggest oil refinery begins production in Nigeria with the aim of reducing need for imports (apnews.com)
The $19 billion facility, which has a capacity to produce 650,000 barrels per day, has started to produce diesel and aviation fuel, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery company reported Saturday. As Nigeria’s first privately owned oil refinery, the project “is a game-changer for our country,” it added.
Boeing opens warehousing facility in Uttar Pradesh for parts supply (www.zeebiz.com)
Arakan Army resistance force says it has taken control of a strategic township in western Myanmar (apnews.com)
Zelenskyy heads to Davos to regain the spotlight for Ukraine (www.politico.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his stated quest to preserve his country, was once the darling of the global elite. Now he’s trying to avoid being just another bystander at their party....
Russia Threatens 'Imminent Retaliation' for Latvia’s Seizure of 'Moscow House' (www.themoscowtimes.com)
India shipped over $1 million of navy-grade fuel to Myanmar since coup (www.frontiermyanmar.net)
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Air in central Male’ unusually polluted - The Edition (edition.mv)
Nationalism to be taught in schools in new academic year (psmnews.mv)
Indian workers heading to Israel will receive no medical coverage or employment guarantee: Report (scroll.in)
Myanmar Military Bows to Powerful Ethnic Army, Gives it More Towns Near China Border (www.irrawaddy.com)
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77 Groups Worldwide Back Genocide Lawsuit Against Biden in U.S. Court. The Biden administration is due in federal court later this month, while Israel faces charges of genocide at The Hague this week. (theintercept.com)
US delegation praises Taiwan's democracy after pro-independence presidential candidate wins election (apnews.com)
Retired U.S. officials met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday and praised the island’s democratic processes under which it elected a new president and legislature over the weekend in defiance of China’s claim of sovereignty over Taiwan and threat to annex it by military force....
Israel Bombed an Al Jazeera Cameraman — and Blocked Evacuation Efforts as He Bled to Death (theintercept.com)
“IT WAS AS if a storm had targeted us.” On the afternoon of December 15, an Israeli airstrike slammed into the Farhana school in Khan Younis where Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh and his cameraman, Samer Abu Daqqa, had just wrapped up filming the aftermath of an earlier bombardment in the area....
