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TURKEY – Turkey’s Boycott Threats Are Preposterous (Burak Bekdil, BESA Center)

Ankara first attempted to use a commercial boycott as a foreign policy weapon in 1998, when Rome refused to extradite Kurdish nationalist Abdullah Öcalan....

SECURITY – CrowdStrike releases free Azure tool to review assigned privileges (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112628/security/crowdstrike-azure-tool.html

APT/MALWARE – North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets the COVID-19 research (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112621/apt/lazarus-apt-targets-covid-19.html

USA – Nashville explosion: Possible human remains found near site, everything else we know (Al Arabiya)

A motor home parked on a street exploded in downtown Nashville at dawn on Friday, moments after a recorded message emanating from the vehicle...

RUSSIA – Top associate of Russian opposition leader Navalny detained (Al Arabiya)

A top associate of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained Friday after doorstepping an alleged security operative who has inadvertently revealed details of...

INDIA/RCEP – India not ready for RCEP (Nilanjan Ghosh, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/26/india-not-ready-for-rcep/

BREXIT – Brexit deal: What happens next and what will change on January 1? (David Child, Al Jazeera)

The clock, as Michel Barnier said, is no longer ticking. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/25/brexit-deal-what-happens-next-and-what-will-change-on-january-1

RUSSIA – Russia opens criminal case against Kremlin critic Navalny’s ally (Al Jazeera)

Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against a close ally of dissident Alexei Navalny on a trespassing charge, according to an official statement...

VATICAN – Pope: Syria, Iraq, Yemen children should ‘touch all consciences’ (Al Jazeera)

Pope Francis has highlighted the plight of children caught up in wars, singling out victims in Syria, Yemen and Iraq in his Christmas message. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/25/pope-says-kids-in-syria-iraq-yemen-should-touch-all-consciences

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