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• MOSCOW (AP) — A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in a year
• Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack
• Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff, died from his injuries, said Svetlana Petrenko, the spokesperson for Russia’s Investigative Committee, the nation’s top criminal investigation agency

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• Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield
• Intelligence findings seen by The Associated Press say the so-called “zone-effect” weapon would seek to flood Starlink orbits with hundreds of thousands of high-density pellets, potentially disabling multiple satellites at once but also risking catastrophic collateral damage to other orbiting systems
• Analysts who haven’t seen the findings say they doubt such a weapon could work without causing uncontrollable chaos in space for companies and countries, including Russia and its ally China, that rely on thousands of orbiting satellites for communications, defense and other vital needs

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• Dec 20 (Reuters) – The United States is interdicting and seizing a vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, three U
• officials told Reuters on Saturday, a move that comes just days after U
• President Donald Trump announced a “blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela

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• MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized Friday that Moscow’s troops were advancing across the battlefield in Ukraine and voiced confidence that the Kremlin would achieve its goals militarily if Kyiv doesn’t agree to Russia’s conditions in peace talks
• Speaking at his tightly orchestrated annual news conference, Putin declared that Russian forces have “fully seized strategic initiative” and would make more gains by the year’s end
• In the early days of the conflict in 2022, Ukraine’s forces managed to thwart an attempt by Russia’s larger, better-equipped army, to capture the capital of Kyiv

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• WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to “eliminate” Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U
• troops and an American civilian interpreter almost a week ago
• official described it as “a large-scale” strike that hit 70 targets in areas across central Syria that had IS infrastructure and weapons

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• The company had in January warned it would lose money in the first quarter as two of its most important markets – personal computers and data centers – were weakening after two years of strong growth during the pandemic-led remote work
• Intel (INTC) declared a quarterly dividend of $0
• 125 per share, or $0