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On 10 Dec 2025 Zelensky opened the first joint session with U.S. envoys to turn a revised 20-point cease-fire outline into an integrated trio of agreements on peace terms, security guarantees, and post-war reconstruction, starting a sprint toward a Christmas deadline pushed by Washington.
On 13 Dec 2025, Thai PM Anutin flatly rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s Truth Social claim of a renewed cease-fire and ordered operations to continue, while new firefights killed four Thai soldiers and sent more civilians fleeing.
In the three days following a still-fragile October ceasefire, Israeli forces killed senior Hamas commander Raed Saad in Gaza City (13 Dec 2025) and separately detained seven-nine Israeli settlers who illegally crossed into northern Gaza to advocate new Jewish settlements (10-11 Dec 2025), signalling renewed Israeli military and civilian activity inside the enclave.
Between 9-12 Dec 2025, President Zelensky confirmed Ukraine has delivered a newly edited 20-point cease-fire draft to Washington while launching parallel negotiations on a U.S./EU security-guarantee treaty and a post-war reconstruction fund.
On 12 Dec 2025 the EU Council used Article 122 to turn the six-month freeze on Russian central-bank assets into a permanent block, clearing the way to leverage the funds as collateral for a “reparations loan” to Ukraine from 2026 onward.
After 11 months underground, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado secretly slipped past 10 regime checkpoints, sailed to Curaçao, and appeared in Oslo on 11 Dec 2025—hours after her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize—publicly confirming U.S. assistance and pledging to return home.
On 11 Dec 2025 Zelenskyy publicly disclosed that Washington’s latest draft peace plan requires a unilateral Ukrainian troop pull-back from Donetsk to form a buffer ‘free economic zone,’ so Kyiv responded with its own 20-point counter-proposal.
On 12 Dec 2025 President Volodymyr Zelensky said any land-for-peace deal with Moscow could go to a national vote, moments after U.S. President Donald Trump gave Kyiv mere “days” to accept a draft accord before Christmas.
On 10 Dec 2025, two US B-52 strategic bombers, escorted by three Japanese F-35s and three F-15s, conducted the first overt allied air-power demonstration since China and Russia’s joint bomber drills two days earlier.
A 7.6-magnitude offshore quake on 8 Dec 2025 forced Japan’s weather agency to invoke, for the first time, a week-long advisory warning 182 municipalities to stay ready for an even larger temblor.
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