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Political crisis in South Korea
Opposition moves forward with impeachment – ​​vote tomorrow

South Korea's opposition Democratic Party (DP) is now moving forward with impeachment against Vice President Han Duck-soo, Yonhap reports.

This is as a result of his refusal to appoint judges to the Constitutional Court to rule on the case involving his predecessor, Yoon Suk-yeol.

The vote in parliament will take place on Friday.

He stepped into the role of vice president in connection with the start of an impeachment process against Yoon after he declared a short-lived military state of emergency.

Killed the general in Moscow
Kremlin: Prevented several attempts to kill Russian leaders

The Russian security service FSB states that it has prevented attempts that the Ukrainian security service planned against high-ranking Russian officers and their families, Reuters reports. The plan was to carry out the attacks with bombs disguised as power banks or document folders.

– Four Russian citizens involved in the preparations for these attacks have been arrested, the FSB says.

Ukraine has not yet commented on the incident.

On December 17, a bomb detonated outside the home of General Igor Kirillov. A source from the Ukrainian security service confirmed to the news agency that they were behind the attack.

Russian invasion  Russian reactions
Moscow airports reopen after temporary closure

Moscow's four airports have reopened after being temporarily closed on Thursday, Reuters reports. The Russian news agency Tass wrote that the closure was introduced "due to drone threats from Ukraine".

These are the Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky airports, according to Expressen. It is unclear whether the airport in Kaluga, 160 kilometers southwest of Moscow, has also reopened after being closed at the same time as the others.

Security around the Baltic Sea
EU wants to expand sanctions against Russian shadow fleet

The EU is proposing expanded sanctions against Russian ships after the new suspected sabotage of cables in the Baltic Sea. This is reported by AFP.

– The suspected ship is part of Russia's shadow fleet, which threatens security and the environment while financing Russia's wars, says EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas in a statement together with the EU Commission.

On December 16, the EU added 52 ships from Russia's shadow fleet to its sanctions package. Several European countries also agreed to control and restrict the shadow fleet more strictly, according to Ekot

The Syrian War  The Fall of the Assad Regime
Sources: 50/50 that the Syrian dictator's wife will survive

London-born Asma al-Assad, wife of the deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, is seriously ill with leukemia, sources tell the British The Telegraph.

- Asma is dying. She cannot be in the same room with anyone else because of her condition, says a source.

Another source describes it as her chances of survival in recent weeks have been seen as "50/50".

In May, the Syrian presidential office announced that the 49-year-old is suffering from cancer, just as she was in 2019. She is believed to have been flown to Moscow for treatment even before her husband fled Syria.

Train stop in Norway
Firewall fault led to train stop in Norway

Bane Nor believes they have found the cause of the Norwegian train crash on Christmas Day, when all the country's trains were stopped for half a day, writes TT.

“It is linked to a fault in a firewall that secures the digital infrastructure,” says Øystein Stavdal Paulsen, press spokesperson at Bane Nor, which is responsible for the railways in Norway.

But the fault remains and they are now trying to work together with the supplier to fix the problem. Despite this, train traffic has been running as usual again since Christmas Eve.