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Energy crisis in Europe
Russian gas dispute escalates in Moldova and Slovakia

Russia will cut off gas supplies to Moldova on January 1, Russian state energy giant Gazprom announced, according to AFP.

Gazprom says the cut is due to Moldova not paying a debt. Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean, however, claims the debt is void and accuses Moscow of using energy as a “political weapon.”

Slovakia and Ukraine are also at odds over Russian gas, which Slovakia imports through Ukraine. Kyiv is threatening to cut off supplies and accuses Bratislava of financing Moscow’s war.

“After January 1, we will consider the situation and the possibility of retaliation against Ukraine,” Slovak Prime Minister Robert Ficos says in response to Ukraine’s accusations.

US elections Trump’s victory
Biden reportedly regrets dropping out of the presidential race

Outgoing US President Joe Biden regrets dropping out of the presidential race. White House sources told the Washington Post.

Biden and his team have been cautious about blaming Kamala Harris for the loss. But recently, they have reportedly said in private conversations that he could have defeated Donald Trump.

Harris's Democratic allies disagree, pointing to how the poll numbers turned when she took over the candidacy and that Biden promised in the 2020 election to serve one term and then hand over power to a younger generation.

- I think his decision to run again violated that idea, says Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal.

Russian invasion The fighting
UK: Russia has changed tactics in Ukraine

According to the British Ministry of Defense, Russia has changed tactics in its airstrikes against Ukraine.

“Since August 2024, it is likely that Russia has chosen to take time to build up its weapons stockpiles between attacks and then carry out larger, but fewer attacks,” the agency writes in a post on X.

Previously, Russia carried out smaller and more frequent attacks. The Defense Ministry writes that Russia still has the capacity to carry out such attacks quickly and without warning.

Middle East crisis  Israel-Huthi
WHO chief: “Avoided death by a hair’s breadth”

The World Health Organization’s WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was at an airport in Yemen that Israel attacked on Thursday. He now tells the BBC that he and his colleague avoided death “by a hair’s breadth.”

He was in Yemen to negotiate the release of hostages and to discuss the humanitarian situation in the country. Israel claims that they struck military targets linked to the Houthi rebels. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he was known to be at the airport when they struck.

“But it doesn’t matter if I was there or not. Every civilian life is worth the same, I am not worth more than anyone else,” he adds.

Houthi-controlled media reports that six people died in the attacks.

US Elections  Trump's Team
Donald Trump Sides With Musk in Visa Controversy

Donald Trump sides with Elon Musk in the controversy over labor immigration in Trump's Maga sphere.

In recent days, Elon Musk has expressed his support for the H-1B visa, which is given to highly educated people from other countries who are looking for jobs in the United States. In an interview with the NY Post, Trump says that he has always liked the visa.

- I have always believed in the H-1B. I have used them several times. It is a fantastic program, he says.

Several conservative voices within the Maga movement who want to see tough measures against immigration have criticized Musk's support for the visa, claiming that Musk, and other billionaires, are exploiting the visa for cheap foreign labor.

Musk has responded in a post on X that the critics can "go to hell" and wrote that he is ready to go to war for the visa form.