🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Reports that the vessel was Israeli. If Iran is directly responsible for the destruction of an Israeli merchant ship, this significantly escalates the conflict.

— 🇺🇸/🇫🇷/🇪🇸/🇮🇹 CONFIRMED: France, Spain and Italy have withdrawn from Operation Prosperity Guardian, refusing to put their warships under U.S. command

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🇮🇱⚡️- Itamar Ben-Gvir has said he may leave the emergency government.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iranian Foreign Minister, Amir Abdollahian: 'America asked us to tell the Houthis to stop their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. We told them no, not until the Zionist agression against Gaza stops'

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🇮🇷 - Hearing rumors on X and other socials that Iran may be planning something around the Strait of Gibraltar.

🇬🇧 - Least deranged UK newspaper article.

🇲🇩🇪🇺⚡️- Maia Sandu has asked the Moldovan parliament to organize a referendum for fall of 2024 on Moldovan ascension to the European Union.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The Department of Defense has confirmed that a kamikaze UAV launched from Iran struck the vessel CHEM PLUTO in the Indian Ocean.

🇺🇳🇾🇪 - UN announces "roadmap to peace" in Yemen, likely to lead to the international recognition of the Houthis' state.

🇺🇸⚡️- Democrats in New York are calling on the New York Election Board to remove President Trump from the 2024 ballot.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- Ansar Allah claims that an American warship fired on their forces while conducting a “reconnaissance operation” near a merchant vessel belonging to Gabon in the Red Sea.

— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Throughout the night, Israel carried out a wave of extensive airstrikes against high-value Hezbollah targets; The IDF has sealed off all roads near Lebanon, and the Israeli military is preparing for a significant Hezbollah response - N12 News

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🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Jewish settlers in Jericho, guarded by IDF troops, set fire to a Christmas tree. Christian and Muslim Palestinians fought them back with rocks and fire extinguishers.

“Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took unto him his wife. And he knew her not till she brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.“

Matthew 1:23-25

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🇷🇸 - Anti-Vučić protesters suppressed in Serbia.

🇷🇺⚡️- Jailed Russian liberal opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been missing for multiple weeks, has allegedly been moved to a penal colony in the Arctic, according to his allies.

🇸🇾⚡️- Explosions in southern Damascus.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- Green Village Base / Conico under drone attack from Islamic Resistance in Iraq.

🇮🇱🇸🇾⚡️- Israeli airstrikes against Damascus earlier allegedly targeted a senior IRGC Commander.