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EU leaders convening in Brussels must decide whether to front Ukraine a zero-interest loan backed by the bloc’s €210 billion in immobilised Russian central-bank reserves; Belgium, Italy and five others still balk, but a qualified-majority vote could force the plan through.
A 19 Dec 2025 IPC update removed Gaza’s formal famine designation following a two-month lull in fighting that opened aid corridors, but kept the enclave at “Emergency – Phase 4” and flagged a return to famine if hostilities or imports stall.
During 14-15 Dec 2025 meetings in Berlin, Washington offered Kyiv time-limited, Senate-ratified Article 5-like security guarantees after President Zelenskyy agreed to renounce NATO membership, aiming to unlock a ceasefire with Russia.
After 14-hour talks at the 18-19 Dec 2025 summit, EU leaders dropped the plan to leverage €210 bn in frozen Russian reserves and instead agreed that 24 member states will raise a €90 bn loan for Kyiv, underwritten by the bloc’s common budget.
On 18 Dec 2025 Washington formally notified Congress of an $11.1 billion, eight-item weapons sale to Taiwan, the island’s largest U.S. package to date and the second of Trump’s second term.
On 17 Dec 2025 President Trump directed U.S. naval forces to blockade every sanctioned tanker entering or leaving Venezuela, expanding a Caribbean deployment into an open act of coercive force against Nicolás Maduro’s oil lifeline.
At the 18 Dec 2025 Brussels summit, EU leaders failed to secure unanimous backing for a loan to Kyiv that would be collateralised with the bloc’s €210 billion in frozen Russian central-bank reserves because Belgium demanded open-ended guarantees against legal and retaliatory risk.
On 16 Dec 2025 President Trump signed a proclamation that, effective 1 Jan 2026, slaps full entry bans on five additional countries and partial limits on fifteen others, nearly doubling the roster of nations facing U.S. travel restrictions.
During 14-16 Dec 2025 Berlin negotiations, the Trump administration for the first time offered Kyiv a congressionally-approved mutual-defence pledge, pushing a five-document peace package to "90 % complete" while territorial questions remain unresolved.
On 16 Dec 2025, President Trump directed U.S. forces to enforce a “total and complete blockade” on every U.S-sanctioned tanker entering or leaving Venezuela, one week after seizing a cargo ship off its coast.
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