AP News: Russia used strategic bombers, cruise missiles, and killer drones in a wave of attacks across Ukraine early Friday....
Report by Seymour Hersh claims Biden Admin ordered CIA to blow up Russia's Baltic Sea natural gas pipelines to Germany....
UK's Daily Telegraph: "Officials in Kyiv have suggested there are already 12 countries willing to donate as many as 100 Leopards from their stocks if granted permission by Berlin."...
Germany's state-run DW TV: "Fishing for edible food in dumpsters could soon become legal in Germany." ...
EU Border Agency Frontex: "Women accounted for fewer than one in ten of the detections."...
Russia's Lavrov says EU not conducting proper investigation of Nord Stream 2 explosions....
Portfolios are being modified as a glimpse into Christmas Future shows a cold, dark world if realities remain ignored....
State-funded DW TV: "As Germany experienced its coldest December in a decade, the government implored residents to exercise restraint on turning up the heat." ...
"The Dutch government plans to buy and close down up to 3,000 farms near environmentally sensitive areas to comply with EU nature preservation rules." ...
"Millions of people were still in the dark after the most devastating Russian air strikes of the war." ...
French TV channel EURONEWS: A "growing number of Germans are turning to citizens’ courses to learn how to act if they find themselves plunged into darkness."...
Reuters: "Germany's gas storage facilities could be quickly emptied if this winter gets really cold."...
Saturday's drone strike was the biggest Ukrainian attack on Russian Black Sea Fleet in six months when they sank flagship cruiser "Moskva."...
"The EU official overseeing internet regulation cautioned the new Twitter boss that the social media giant must play by the bloc's rules in Europe."...
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson appears unmoved by the anger of eco-activists. Meanwhile, Germany dismantles a windfarm to make room for a coal mine. ...
German language expert: "We have no German word for “woke” so we borrow it from the English.’...
Sunak's tenure will officially begin when His Majesty King Charles III appoints him at Buckingham Palace, which will likely happen tomorrow....
The protest organizers "estimated the total turnout at about 24,000 — including around 6,000 in Berlin, 5,000 each in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt, and 4,000 in Stuttgart."...
