🚩 JUST IN: Iran Official Reveals Elon Musk Met With Tehran’s UN Ambassador - NYT

Musk requested the meeting and the two discussed defusing tensions between Iran and US under Trump.

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❌ DPRK Leader Kim Jong Un Orders “Mass Production” of Suicide Drones - KCNA

Kim oversaw a drone test on Thursday, marking his second known inspection this year.

The supreme leader emphasized the urgency of ramping up the production of newly developed military drones, ordering their "full-scale mass production" to begin as early as possible.

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❌ Israel Kills at Least 12 Lebanese Civil Defense Members in Strike on Baalbek

The attack destroyed a building operated by the civil defense, a politically unaffiliated emergency rescue service, and a neighboring residence.

Fatalities included the head of the civil defence center, Bilal Raad.

Human Rights Watch has denounced Israel’s repeated attacks on medics in Lebanon as “apparent war crimes.”

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⚠️ Javier Milei becomes first world leader to meet Trump since election win

The libertarian economist was expected to talk to Elon Musk - about their shared interest in slashing public spending and jobs.

“The job you’ve done is incredible. Make Argentina Great Again, you know, MAGA. He’s a MAGA person,” Trump told guests at a gala held in the ballroom of his Mar-a-Lago estate.

In a speech during the gala, Milei slammed left-wing ideologies and saluted Musk, saying his social media site was helping to “save humanity.”

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🤔 JUST IN: Tehran Offered Written Assurances to US Last Month it Wasn’t Seeking to Kill Donald Trump - WSJ

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🔶 VIDEO: Trump will ‘work very hard on Russia and Ukraine’

🔶 Nuclear bomb will not help Ukraine – Zelensky's office

🔶 Trump won't allow Ukraine to build an atomic bomb – US foreign policy analysts

🔶 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picked as US health and human services secretary

🔶 Kim Jong-un personally oversees testing of kamikaze drones

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💲Biden Admin Finalizes $6.6bn CHIPS Act Grant to TSMC Before Trump Returns

The money will be disbursed in stages, contingent on the company hitting project milestones – but TSMC is expected to receive at least $1BN by the end of 2024, the US Commerce Dept said.

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⚡️ NOW: Israeli Air Force Fighter Jets Fly Menacingly Low Over Beirut’s Southern Suburbs

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⚡ JUST IN: Israel “Destroyed” Iranian Nuclear Research Facility - Axios

Tel Aviv carried out a targeted airstrike in October on Iran’s Parchin military complex, reportedly destroying the Taleghan 2 facility, an alleged covert site for nuclear weapons research.

Located 20 miles southeast of Tehran, the facility had been dormant since Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 - but recently resumed covert activities under the guise of civilian research, as per Axios.

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🚩Xi Jinping Opens China-Funded Mega Port in Peru

Beijing injected a $1.3bn investment into the project - which is expected to generate $4.5bn annually and create 8k jobs.

Xi said that Chancay, a 15-berth, deep-water port, was the successful start of a "21st century maritime Silk Road" and part of China's Belt and Road Initiative.

"China is willing to work with the Peruvian side to take the Chancay project as a starting point to forge a new maritime-land corridor between China and Latin America and connect the Great Inca Trail," Xi said.

Washington can only dream of such diplomacy.

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🤬 Former Head of Israeli National Security Council Explains to Sky News the Plan to “Stop the Supply of Food, Fuel and Other Important Materials to Conquer Northern Gaza”

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🍦 Ben & Jerry’s sues Unilever - claiming it was ‘silenced’ over views on Palestine

The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, alleges Unilever violated merger and settlement agreements with Ben & Jerry’s and sought the “unilateral erosion” of the ice cream company’s well-known social justice values through “repeated overreaches.”

The ice cream maker has accused Unilever of attempting to block Ben & Jerry’s from making public statements about the plight of refugees from Gaza.

Tensions first broke into the open in 2021 when the ice cream maker said it would stop selling ice cream in the occupied West Bank - in protest against Israel’s actions there, prompting some Unilever investors to offload their shares.

Unilever has denied the allegations.

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🤡 German Finance Minister Presses Charges Against Pensioner Who Called Him an “Idiot” on X - reports

“Last Tuesday, according to the prosecutor's office, a judicial house search of the suspect had been ordered. The investigation is ongoing. Proceedings have been opened against the accused.

The 64-year-old is now being investigated on suspicion of insulting a person of political life under paragraphs 185 and 188 of the Criminal Code. If a conviction is made, the man faces a prison sentence of up to three years or a fine.” (Rheinische Post)

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