In Berlin, a car crashed into the chancellery gates of Angela Merkel / In Germany, an unnamed man drove his car with messages scrawled on one of its sides into the gates of the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as was reported by DW.
In Georgia, several people were taken as hostages / In Tbilisi, Georgia, armed men broke into the building of a microfinance organization and took several hostages, as was reported by Sputnik Georgia.
Helicopter crash involving peacekeepers in Egypt: several people dead / A military helicopter crashed near the popular resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), as was reported by CNN.
The battleground state of Nevada: latest updates on the vote count / In the United States, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden needs six additional electoral votes to win the presidency (assuming Vice President Biden retains his lead in Arizona, which has been already projected by Fox News and the Associated Press).
Europe imposes stricter quarantine restrictions / According to DW, the governments of Germany, Lithuania and France are imposing stricter quarantine measures to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kristina Kvien appointed as new US Charge d’Affaires in Ukraine / After Ambassador William Taylor's departure from Kyiv on January 2, Kristina Kvien became the new charge d’affaires in Ukraine.
Russia announced an important gas contract with Ukraine / Russia's Minister of Energy, Alexander Novak, said that Russia and Ukraine had agreed that mutual claims would be nullified on January 1 and property arrests would be removed according to decisions on court suits, as was reported by RIA Novosti news agency.
Donald Trump decided to withhold military aid to Ukraine 90 mins after the Zelensky call / The Pentagon received its first official instruction to withhold military aid to Ukraine 90 minutes after a phone conversation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky took place on July 25.
Mass shooting at the US wake: key facts / In Chicago, during a wake for a man who was killed in April this year, there was an altercation that grew into a shooting.
Trump has become the third president in US history to be impeached / The US House of Representatives voted for President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment on two charges – abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
