🇷🇺🇳🇱🇮🇱⚡- Russia recommends its citizens not to visit Amsterdam in the coming days amid the unrest.

🇺🇸🐘⚡️- The GOP Senate Majority Leader race has come down to three candidates: John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas, and Rick Scott of Florida — NBC

🇺🇸⚡️- DecisionDeskHQ has officially called Washington's 3rd Congressional District race for Marie Perez

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has now officially passed his 2020 raw vote totals earning more than 74 million votes. Counting is expected to continue for the coming weeks, it is estimated he will end up with 76 million in the end.

🇵🇰⚡- Bomb explosion kills 21 at a railway station in Quetta, Balochistan province. Baloch Liberation Army claims responsibility.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump tells Zelensky that he will support Ukraine," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- US President-elect Trump announced his intentions to end Gaza war as soon as possible in his first phone call with Palestinian Authority leader Abbas since 2017.

🇺🇸⚡- President-elect Donald J. Trump intends to sign an executive order to protect Free Speech on his Inauguration in a recent speech.

Part of the President-elect's plan includes revoking Section 230 protections from media companies which collude with federal agencies to suppress speech, such as using "misinformation" or "disinformation" disclaimers to falsify or distort news.

🇶🇦🇵🇸⚡- "Hamas has not received any messages about requests to leave Qatar. Hamas denies Qatar has asked the movement's leaders to leave Doha," - al-Arabiya, Saudi state-owned media.

🇸🇩🇹🇩⚡- The Foreign Ministry of Chad condemns the "outrageous and repeated accusations" of the Sudanese "military authorities who, without any evidence, claim Chad’s support for the Rapid Support Force".

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡- US confirms the loss of a MQ-1C drone in Somalia. The US claims it had 'crashed' whereas al-Shabaab state they had shot down the UAV.

🇹🇷🇸🇦⚡- Turkish President Erdogan to visit Saudi Arabia on Monday.

🇺🇳⚡- "The International Criminal Court's governing body in 'The Hague' has launched an external investigation into prosecutor Karim Khan on suspicion of sexual harassment," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "British and European troops to be deployed in 1,200km buffer zone along the front line between Ukraine and Russia: this is one version of Trump's peace plan," - The Telegraph, British media.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇲🇱⚡- "Terrorists in northern Mali have confirmed their cooperation with Ukraine, which is a cause for serious concern," - Mali's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇲🇱⚡- Terrorists, with the support of Ukraine and other countries, would like to change the regime in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso," - Abdoulaye Diop, Malian Foreign Minister.

🇪🇸🇲🇦🇮🇱⚡- Morocco allowed Maersk Denver to dock at its ports after Spain refused. Maersk Denver is carrying military cargo heading to Israel.

🇺🇸⚡- "US President-elect Trump has begun to influence international relations even before taking office," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇾🇪⚡- Joint US-UK airstrikes against Sana'a, Yemen - Ansarullah-controlled territory.

🇱🇧🇮🇱❗️ Israel Hayom, citing a political official: There is talk of a very good agreement for Israel that optimally meets its interests in Lebanon.

🇨🇴⚡️- Bomb attack in Jamundi, Colombia. 15 casualties are reported.