Marco Rubio:

Today, the Trump Administration is sanctioning two International Criminal Court judges directly engaged in politicized and illegitimate actions against Israel.

The United States has been clear: we will continue to respond with significant and tangible consequences to protect against the ICC’s lawfare, abuse of power, and blatant disregard for the sovereignty of the U.S. and Israel.

UK Halts Ajax Vehicle Trials After Injuries

The UK has halted all Ajax trials after another injury, drawing a firm safety red line as noise and vibration risks persist across testing and training.

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U.S. official to Reuters:

Steve Witkoff will meet Friday with Qatari, Egyptian and Turkish officials in Miami on the Gaza deal.

Turkish President Erdogan:

No matter how hard the Israeli government tries to silence them, true journalists continue to reveal the reality in Palestine, even at the cost of their lives.

Lukashenko:

Listen, they accuse us of oppressing Jews, but in Belarus, for example, half of the government are Jews.

Where are we oppressing anyone?

Turkish President Erdogan:

Neoliberal culture, with its ever-changing new idol called “trend,” is destroying many of the beautiful things that make us human.

Ukrainian forces lost a Mi-24 helicopter with its crew during a combat mission.

The helicopter belonged to Ukraine’s 12th Army Aviation Brigade and was likely shot down while on an anti-drone sortie against Russian Geran-2 loitering munitions.

Russia’s Foreign Spy Service Chief Naryshkin:

U.S. now realizes that prolonging the war will inevitably lead to Ukraine’s defeat.

Syrian, Kurdish and U.S. officials are racing ahead of a year-end deadline to revive a stalled deal to integrate the SDF into Syria’s state institutions.

Damascus has proposed allowing the SDF to reorganise its roughly 50,000 fighters into three divisions, provided it cedes some command authority and opens its territory to other Syrian army units.

Talks have accelerated in recent days, though officials caution a full breakthrough is unlikely.

Any near-term announcement is expected to fall short of full integration and may mainly serve to extend talks and avert instability.

Source: Reuters

Keir Starmer has said he would “absolutely” challenge anyone who spoke to his daughter the way Trump did when he called a female reporter “piggy.”

“I absolutely wouldn't... I would call it out.”

One of the images released by House Oversight Democrats shows Noam Chomsky on a plane with Jeffrey Epstein.

A photo of Epstein released by House Oversight Democrats.

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey:

I don’t think China is going to adopt drones the same way that you’ve seen heavy adoption in Russia and Ukraine.

China has such an enormous surplus of single men… their calculus is just completely different.

Why would they spend a bunch of money trying to automate a fighter jet when I can just put a person in it?

And people say, “they don't want to lose those pilots.” Well, what if I have a war machine that can churn out enormous numbers of pilots?

You're going to see this huge divide in how wars are fought between countries that highly, highly value human life and ones that do not value it so highly.

Pete Hegseth:

Too many of our young people are too fat or too dumb—or not dumb, that’s wrong.

You know, we’re just not educating them properly...

Polish PM Tusk:

We know very well that Ukraine's independence keeps the risk of aggression or war away from Polish borders, and the fall of Ukraine as a result of this war would mean a direct threat to Poland.

So we are also looking at this, in a certain sense, egoistically—that is, thinking about the Polish interest.