🇲🇱 — #BREAKING - Reports by local media that a Malian Akinici drone crashed near Sevare, a Wagner/Malian Army stronghold in the center of the country.

It is still unclear if the drone was downed or crashed due to other issues.

🇺🇸🔥⚡️- An evacuation text was accidentally sent to every resident of LA County, no such order is in place and the local government has apologized.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- US President-elect, Donald Trump, condemned the arrest of Maria Machado in Venezuela, saying "these freedom fighters must not be harmed, and must stay safe and alive".

🇺🇸🇺🇿⚡️- "Uzbekistan intends to strengthen relations with the US in 2025. Interaction with the US will be aimed at strengthening political, economic and cultural ties," - GazetaUZ, Uzbek media.

🇺🇿🇦🇿🇵🇰⚡- Pakistani Prime Minister to visit Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Leonidovo and Aleksandriya - Kursk region of Russia.

Russian troops also captured a large fortification west of Nikolskiy.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces crossed the Zherebets river at a second point, this time west of Makeevka - Borova direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have reached the western outskirts of Toretsk city, with Ukrainian forces withdrawing to their fortifications.

Russian forces now control 12.3 sqkm of the 17 sqkm of Toretsk city - 72%.

🇸🇾🇫🇷🇹🇷⚡- The SDF proposes a buffer zone along the Syrian-Turkish border, guarded by French troops.

🇸🇾🇫🇷🇹🇷⚡- "Let's see them [France] try this without US support," - Hakan Fidan, Turkish Foreign Minister, responding to SDF's proposal of having French troops along the Syrian-Turkish border.

🇸🇾🇫🇷🇹🇷⚡- "Small European countries gain nothing from speaking under America’s umbrella. Let’s see them operate in the region without the U.S," - Hakan Fidan, Turkish Foreign Minister, responding to SDF's proposal of having French troops along the Syrian-Turkish border.

🇸🇾🇫🇷🇹🇷⚡- "We don't take small countries [France] seriously, our counterpart is the US. We won't engage with others," - Hakan Fidan, Turkish Foreign Minister, responding to SDF's proposal of having French troops along the Syrian-Turkish border.

🇸🇾🇫🇷🇹🇷⚡- "If France wants to act, it should prosecute and imprison its own terrorist citizens," - Hakan Fidan, Turkish Foreign Minister, responding to SDF's proposal of having French troops along the Syrian-Turkish border.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- "We’ve said it repeatedly, we can’t live with the PKK and YPG threat. Either others act, or we will," - Hakan Fidan, Foreign Minister of Turkey.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel has become a problem of the international community," - Hakan Fidan, Foreign Minister of Turkey.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel's expansionist policies in the region have become a serious issue not only for the countries in the region but also internationally," - Hakan Fidan, Foreign Minister of Turkey.

🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡- "Our story in Syria is just beginning," - Hakan Fidan, Foreign Minister of Turkey.

🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱⚡- "Trump's invasion of Greenland would be the shortest war in the world," - Politico.

🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱⚡- "Denmark has sacrificed its military capacity to support Ukraine and would be unable to resist a potential U.S. annexation of Greenland by force," - Politico.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel is in talks to divide Syria into separate states along ethnic lines," - Israel Hayom.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel aims to break Turkey's influence in Syria by giving regional administration to the Druze and Kurdish groups," - Israel Hayom.