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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.
Brussels is racing to invoke emergency Article 122 powers so a qualified-majority vote—expected within days—can freeze €210 billion of Russian central-bank funds indefinitely, sidestepping Hungary’s anticipated veto at the 18 December 2025 EU summit.
Within 24 hours of a Sino-Russian eight-hour bomber circuit around Japan on 9 Dec 2025, the US flew two B-52s with six Japanese fighters over the Sea of Japan, signalling immediate allied deterrence.
On 8 Dec 2025 the White House released a 30-page National Security Strategy that recasts Europe as a fragile partner facing “civilizational erasure,” omits Russia from the threat list, and urges the U.S. to back nationalist forces inside EU states.
On 6–7 Dec 2025, Gaza leader Khalil al-Hayya declared Hamas would transfer its arsenal to a future Palestinian state’s authority — but only once Israel ends all military presence in Gaza and recognises sovereign Palestinian control.
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