Canadian PM Mark Carney meets with Xi Jinping in China:

“The progress we have made in the partnership sets us up well for the new world order.”

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The UK has split with France and Italy over whether to reopen talks with Putin, with Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper saying Moscow has shown no real interest in peace.

She rejected calls from Paris and Rome for renewed diplomacy, arguing there is still no evidence Putin is willing to negotiate.

Source: POLITICO

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt:

I need people on the right to take down Tucker Carlson—so I'm trying to help Ted Cruz.

I need people on the right to take down Nick Fuentes—so I'm trying to help people like Ben Shapiro.

And the same thing on the left.

Reza Pahlavi says he’s willing to take real power during a transition, claiming public trust:

This phase of transition [needs] the only person that people can trust as being a neutral arbiter.

Number one is Iran’s territorial integrity.

The second principle… a clear separation of religion from state.

This is not a process where a temporary government gets elected. It is a voluntary step.

I’m not doing this against their will. I’m doing it at their ask.

They want to be able to trust someone — and that person at this point is me.

They have called for me specifically. Of course it’s not everybody.

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt:

I have 40 analysts working full-time 7 days a week, 24 hours a day monitoring "extremists."

We monitor these people, and we share the intelligence with the FBI.

The first U.S. sale of Venezuelan oil under Trump went to Vitol, whose senior trader John Addison donated about $6m to pro-Trump groups and recently met Trump at the White House.

Source: FT

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni meets with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

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South Korea’s impeached former President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to five years in prison for abusing power, obstructing justice and falsifying documents over his failed 2024 martial law attempt.

This is the first verdict in four trials he faces. The most serious charge, insurrection, could carry the death penalty, with a ruling expected in February.

Greenland isn’t just a geopolitical talking point.

It’s the site of 200 years of forced assimilation by Denmark, including child removals, identity erasure, and population control, only recently acknowledged after decades of denial.

📸 The Donroe Doctrine has begun to bear its first fruits.

WATCH: Israeli helicopter crashes while it was being airlifted.

Qatar’s former Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani:

A Saudi–Pakistani strategic defense pact, potentially joined by Türkiye (and ideally Egypt and Gulf states), is a vital step to strengthen regional security and independence amid shifting Western—especially U.S.—policies.

The alliance should be durable, broad-based (military, economic, political), non-hostile toward Iran, respect members’ sovereignty, and be founded on a clear, well-studied charter to ensure long-term credibility and effectiveness.

Russia says it will bolster its defense capabilities in Arctic over Greenland tensions.

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The crash site of Israeli helicopter.

Putin and Netanyahu spoke by phone today.

They discussed Middle East tensions and Iran.

Russia, according to the Kremlin, urged diplomacy and signaled willingness to mediate on Iran-related issues.

Palestinians Weary of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Amid Second Phase of Ceasefire

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NEW: Saudi Arabia is moving to sideline the UAE by forming a new military coalition with Somalia and Egypt, focused on Red Sea security and defense cooperation.

Somalia is finalizing the deal after cutting security and ports ties with the UAE.

Source: Bloomberg

Canadian PM Mark Carney on Greenland:

We are NATO partners with Denmark.

Our full partnership and our obligations to Article 5 and Article 2 stand. We stand fully behind those.

Ukrainian M142 HIMARS allegedly destroyed by Russian kamikaze drone strike about 75 km from the Russian border in Chernihiv region.

The first strike disabled the system; the second strike destroyed it.

The armored cabin reportedly protected the crew, who survived.

After briefly returning to China in late 2025 to visit his elderly mother, Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei says daily life in Beijing now feels easier and more humane than in Europe, especially Germany, despite his long history as a dissident.

“Beijing today feels more natural and humane.”

Germany is “cold, rational, and deeply bureaucratic,” making people feel “confined and precarious.”

Germany is now “playing the role of an insecure and unfree country.”

“In ten years in Germany, almost no one ever invited me to their home.”

In China, “perfectly ordinary people from at least five different professions lined up, hoping to meet me.”

He reopened a Chinese bank account “in a matter of minutes.”

Life in Europe is “at least ten times more difficult” than in China due to bureaucracy.

Source: Berliner Zeitung

📸 Ukraine’s new energy minister speaks about the country’s energy crisis to the nearly empty parliament chamber.