Friday

At least one person is killed and eight people are injured in Russian missile strikes on civilian infrastructure in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and Kyiv, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent) (Reuters)

A Ukrainian missile strike kills six people and injures 10 others in Rylsk, Kursk Oblast, according to the region's governor Alexander Khinshtein. Russia says it will raise the issue of the missile strike at the United Nations Security Council. (Reuters)

Two people are killed and 68 more wounded during a vehicle-ramming attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. The suspected perpetrator is arrested. (Al Jazeera) (Blick)

US forces kill regional ISIS leader Abu Yusif, also known as Mahmud, in an airstrike in Deir ez-Zor Governorate. (US CENTCOM)

Malaysian Minister of Transport Anthony Loke announces a new search effort for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing in March 2014, to be conducted by Ocean Infinity. (DW)

Eight people are killed and 18 more are rescued after a speedboat carrying migrants capsized off Rhodes' coast in Greece. (AP)

Australia agrees to provide Solomon Islands with a package of financing, training, and infrastructure support worth AU$190 million (US$118 million) over four years to strengthen its police force, as part of a renewed security partnership between the two nations. (France 24)

Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons Hungary's ambassador to protest the Hungarian government's decision to grant asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski, who is wanted for alleged corruption. Poland also recalls its ambassador to Hungary Sebastian Kęciek for consultations. (AP)

A child is killed and seven people are wounded during a mass stabbing at a primary school in Zagreb, Croatia. The 19-year-old perpetrator is arrested. (BBC News)

The Government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wins a lower house confidence vote on the 2025 budget (Reuters)

Sam Hou Fai is sworn in as the new Chief Executive of Macau Special Administrative Region, China, suceeding Ho Iat Seng. (RTHK)

An amended congressional bill supported by US President-elect Donald Trump to enforce a two-year suspension of the federal debt ceiling to an existing funding bill ensuring full operation of the U.S. federal government service is rejected in the Republican majority U.S. House of Representatives, with multiple House Republicans and nearly all House Democrats opposing. A government shutdown is set to occur if no bill is passed by midnight. (BBC)

The funding bill, which does not include Trump's debt ceiling repeal and will fund the government until March 2025, passes a House vote 336–34. The bill now goes before the US Senate. (Washington Post)

Estonia says it will not recognize the results of the upcoming presidential election in Belarus, which Alexander Lukashenko is expected to win due to rigging in advance. (ERR)