OpenAI CEO Sam Altman:

It doesn’t matter whether people put the risk of catastrophe at 10% or 1% or 12% or 0.1%. None of these levels are remotely acceptable, and we should not train models that we cannot make an extremely strong case that we will be able to keep under human control.

Czech President Petr Pavel:

We need rules. Not because all states are equally powerful, but precisely because they are not. Rules have value only if they bind everyone, especially those powerful enough to break them.

When rules are cast aside, raw power fills the vacuum. A world dominated by great power competition is a volatile world, less able to address the most pressing challenges of our time. It is a world where a single spark can ignite a fire.

Instead, we should insist that with greater power comes greater responsibility. Responsibility in the use of force, responsibility to exercise restraint, but also responsibility to use one’s influence to prevent force from becoming necessary in the first place.

This applies particularly to permanent members of the UN Security Council. China has the power, influence, and responsibility to help prevent conflicts, to de-escalate tensions, and contribute to ending wars.

This includes using its influence to help bring Russia’s aggression against Ukraine to an end.

Russian drone/missile strike on Kyiv hit multiple data centers, knocking out internet for ~100,000 households.

ISPs UTELS, Pavutina, Crazy Network, and Etherlink all reported major node damage.

Hosting providers Cityhost and MiroHost lost Kyiv-based equipment, with MiroHost's local facility destroyed entirely (95% of clients unaffected on foreign servers).

Providers are warning of significant price increases, saying current ~300-350 UAH rates are no longer viable given the cost of maintaining resilient infrastructure under constant attack.

Russia claimed the sites supported military communications; Ukraine says they were civilian telecom infrastructure.

Bessent:

We will get to the other side of this Iran conflict. The energy prices will drop and you will pick your purchasing power back up.

Bessent on Iran:

The tankers, they may get hit. Many of them just sail on. They just sail on.

You know, the Iranians may launch three, four, five, six drones after them. Our great navy is blocking them.

Bessent on Iran:

I don't know whether it's going to be a week, a month or two months, but they are going to yell uncle.

The goal here can be one of three states of the world: the regime turns on each other; we get some kind of uprising for the Iranian people; or we get the Iranians to, if they want to make a deal, to stick to the deal.

This time, if there is a deal, I guarantee you they're going to stick with it.

Kremlin:

It is too early to talk about Putin’s trip to the G20 and a meeting with Trump.

We will provide our response to the invitation later.

Denmark’s defense intelligence service warned that Russia is expected to intensify hybrid warfare against Western countries and NATO in the coming months.

“The Danish defence intelligence service assesses that in the coming months, Russia will further intensify its hybrid warfare by carrying out more frequent attacks against the West and NATO, with greater consequences for the affected countries than in the past.”

Source: Reuters

NEW: All flights operated by Iranian airlines to the UAE have been canceled since midnight, according to Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, ISNA reported.

Denmark’s Defence Intelligence Service (FE) says a Russian invasion of a NATO country is unlikely but can no longer be ruled out.

FE chief Thomas Ahrenkiel said there are no signs of an imminent attack, but the threat has increased.

Iran's Security Council Secretary Rezaei:

A new US escalation could open a second front at Bab el-Mandeb alongside Hormuz.

Linking the two chokepoints will change the battlefield.

Nine Kazakh soldiers dead after 19 were swept into the Caspian Sea during the Khazar Qorgany-2026 naval exercise near Aktau.

Weather deteriorated suddenly during a landing operation from the boat Kaisar.

Three rescued, search ongoing for the rest.

A similar incident killed four soldiers at the same coastline in 2015.

Belgium’s foreign ministry warned in a leaked internal document that the U.S. under Trump is “no longer the ally it has been in the past” and called for a reassessment of ties with Washington.

The October 2025 document said Belgium should continue engaging with the Trump administration while strengthening contacts with Congress, Democratic opposition figures, Republican and Democratic states, and future bipartisan political leaders.

The ministry stressed that the document was an internal working paper, not an agreed government policy.

Source: FT

Trump:

Only Trump.

Trump and Xi agreed to extend a trade truce until Jan. 10, 2027, avoiding escalation despite disputes over rare earths, technology curbs and Taiwan.

Source: Bloomberg

Trump:

The Dumocrats make up lie after lie. The new one is that I want Ford’s Theater named after me.

That’s where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Who would want that? I don’t!

It is FAKE NEWS started by MSDNC AND CNN.

EU's Kaja Kallas:

Trump's inviting Putin to the G20 was very hard to hear, because considering that even a few days ago, there were Russian intelligence officers charged for murders of Americans on American soil.

So, my question is, do these intelligence officers operate, you know, alone, or do they get orders from Vladimir Putin? And I can tell you, they get orders from President Putin.

Zelensky said the Trump administration is pushing three steps to restart diplomacy with Russia:

A ceasefire on energy infrastructure.

Reopening the Black Sea grain corridor.

A trilateral U.S.-Russia-Ukraine meeting, possibly in Abu Dhabi.

Zelensky said the energy ceasefire proposal came from the U.S. and that Kyiv is ready to accept it.

“On the table now there is a proposition: energy ceasefire. We are ready.”

He said he told Trump he wanted a trilateral meeting with an energy ceasefire as one of the first outcomes.

“We are open — any country, any format.”

Source: Axios