🇷🇺🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwanese outlet, Focus Taiwan, says China is learning from and copying Russian tactics in the Baltics.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Ugur Alperen, Turkish Sergeant, likely died in Syria, adding to a growing list of Turkish military deaths in the country.

The official Turkish version is that Alperen "suddenly fell ill and then died".

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel's Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, has ordered the military to be on high alert for possible extreme actions by Iran in the coming days," - Walla.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The IRGC are transferring funds to Hezbollah via civilian aircraft," - Walla.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Don't hold your breath.

🇺🇸 - All American military bases in North America has instituted heightened security.

🇺🇸⚡️- Bloomberg reports that President Trump will issue over 1000 pardons to Jan 6th protesters. It is unclear as of now what criteria was established to determine who would and who would not be granted clemency.

🇾🇪⚡- "Houthi militia plants and funds sleeper cells in Aden [STC-controlled Yemen] to destabilize security and stability in the interim capital," - al-Montasaf, Southern Transitional Council outlet.

🇷🇺⚡️- In 2024, Russia set a record by moving 38 million tons of cargo along the Northern Sea Route. This marks a tenfold increase in volume compared to 2014, when the route handled only 3.7 million tons.

🇺🇸⚡️- Former Trump National Security Council member Joshua Steinman revealed in a Twitter thread that the incoming administration will not be cleaning house in the existing NSC and will allow many Biden appointees to stay, 4 years earlier Biden canned the vast majority of Trump appointees.

Full thread can be read here: https://x.com/JoshuaSteinman/status/1875974603480416657

🇨🇦⚡️- BREAKING: The Globe reports that 10 year Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to resign this week and trigger a snap election.

We will bring you regular updates and coverage of the election cycle when it officially begins.

🇨🇦⚡️- The two most likely replacements for Trudeau as leader of the Liberal party are former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland.

Carney reportedly has spent the weekend gathering support from Liberal party leadership and donors while Freeland remains popular with elected Liberal politicians.

However the most recent polling in October on who Liberal voters would like to be leader had "None of the above" ahead of the entire field.

🇪🇬🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- Egypt officially denies Israeli media reports that Cairo is preparing for military intervention in Yemen against Ansarullah.

🇸🇾⚡- The "Hagia Sophia" Church in the city of al-Suqailabiyah, in the northwestern Hama countryside in central Syria, has permanently closed after receiving constant threats. The closure was done to protect the church’s property from theft and the locals who attended services.

🇸🇾⚡- "The new Syrian administration has held talks with PKK and YPG representatives, demanding that they lay down their arms," - Hurriyet.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- A Hamas spokesman has given the BBC a list of 34 hostages the group is prepared to release in the first phase of a ceasefire with Israel.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Two gunmen opened fire on vehicles belonging to Israelis in the West Bank. Two women and a man currently reported dead, with six others in serious conditions.

Ynet claims the attackers managed to escape, with Israeli security forces launching an operation to capture them.