🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian Geran-2 drones are attacking Orilka in Ukraine's Kharkiv region.

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🇻🇪🇺🇸⚡️ — Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil to Al Jazeera:

We are working to establish peace within the framework of national unity around President Nicolás Maduro.

We specifically requested that any attempt to threaten aimed at creating a war situation in the Caribbean region be withdrawn.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Another video showing a Russian Geran-2 drone striking Orilka in Ukraine's Kharkiv region.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump says the U.S. government shutdown may be nearing an end, stating, “We’re getting close… You’ll know very soon.”

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🇰🇷🧑‍⚖️❗️ — South Korea's special prosecutor has indicted former President Yoon Suk Yeol on additional charges of abusing power and aiding an enemy state, according to Yonhap News Agency.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — FBI Director Kash Patel made an unannounced trip to Beijing to discuss fentanyl trafficking and broader law enforcement cooperation between the U.S. and China, according to Reuters.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — U.S. senators reached a deal to end the 40-day government shutdown by advancing a Republican stopgap bill to fund the government through January.

➡️ A few Democrats agreed after securing a December vote on ACA subsidies, though without a guaranteed extension.

➡️ The deal still requires House passage and President Trump’s approval.

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🇺🇸📞🇱🇧❌🇱🇧 — The U.S. has offered to support the Lebanese Army in implementing a stalled plan to disarm Hezbollah and other groups, according to Bloomberg.

➡️ The proposal was made during meetings with President Joseph Aoun, as Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets persist in southern Lebanon.

➡️ Beirut insists the plan can proceed only if Israel halts its attacks.

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🇸🇾❌🏴 — NEW: Syrian officials tell Reuters that two recent Islamic State plots to assassinate President Ahmed al-Sharaa were foiled.

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🇮🇱❌🇱🇧🇱🇧 — Israel is pressuring the Lebanese Army to search private homes in southern Lebanon for Hezbollah weapons, claiming the group is rearming, according to Reuters.

➡️ Lebanon has refused, warning that such actions could spark civil unrest and escalate into a new conflict.

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🇺🇸✈️⚠️ — Over 2,100 U.S. flights were canceled Sunday, the highest number since shutdown-related cuts began, alongside around 7,000 delays.

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🇺🇸❌🏴💊 — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the U.S. conducted "lethal kinetic strikes" on two suspected drug-trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific, resulting in the killing of 6 male "narco-terrorists."

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🇸🇩❌🇸🇩❗️ — NEW: Eyewitnesses and survivors told Sudan Tribune that the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces are holding more than 50,000 civilians in El Fasher, North Darfur’s capital, preventing them from leaving the city.

➡️ The RSF confiscated Starlink satellite internet devices and mobile phones to cut off communication with the outside world.

➡️ Three survivors who escaped to Tawila, about 56 km southwest of El Fasher, told Sudan Tribune that detainees are being held at the land port east of the city, Al-Rashid dormitory and El Fasher University, the Saudi Hospital, and a site in the Awlad al-Reef neighborhood. Thousands more are gathered in Garni, which the RSF previously designated as an assembly point for displaced civilians.

➡️ The survivors also said RSF members forced detainees, especially young men, to record ransom videos and voice messages sent to families via RSF phones, demanding payments between 5 million and 100 million Sudanese pounds for their release.

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🇺🇸🤝🏳️‍🌈 — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to reconsider its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, rejecting an appeal from former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who had refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

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