- Senate minority bloc members expressed their strong and unequivocal "no" vote to extend martial law in Mindanao. Senate minority leader Franklin Drilon said there is nothing in the letter of President Rodrigo Duterte that would justify the extension of martial law in Mindanao.
- The International Crisis Group said it had received no information from Chinese officials about the detention of its employee, former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, and that it was seeking consular access to him.
- The Senate may still find it difficult to pass the P3.757-trillion 2019 national budget this year even as Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno would already recommend to President Duterte to call for a special Congress session.
- A police operation was underway early on Wednesday around Strasbourg cathedral near where a gunman killed three people and wounded a dozen others on Tuesday evening. The gunman, who is believed to have been injured by security forces on Tuesday according to French media reports, is on the run and France has raised its security threat to the highest alert level and strengthened border controls.
- Conservative lawmakers triggered a vote of no confidence in UK PM Theresa May's leadership as Britain’s planned divorce from the European Union was plunged into chaos.
- The United States is considering issuing a new warning to U.S. citizens, including business executives, traveling to China after Canada arrested a senior Huawei executive at Washington’s request, according to sources. Such an advisory from the State Department would warn U.S. nationals of the risk that China could retaliate against them for the detention of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, according to one of the sources familiar with the situation.
- Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak and the former head of 1MDB were charged Wednesday with altering an audit of the state fund at the center of a scandal that helped topple the last government.
- Japan selected the Chinese character for "disaster" as its "defining symbol" for 2018. A total of 20,858 people out of 193,214 chose the character. Over the course, Japan was hit by a series of natural disasters in 2018, starting with massive flooding in western regions that killed over 200 people.
- Volkswagen illegally sold thousands of pre-production test vehicles to unsuspecting buyers in Europe and North America since 2006, according to reports.
- The second season of BanG Dream! TV series will premiere on the 3rd of January.
- The One Piece TV series celebrates its 20th anniversary with an upcoming summer 2019 film titled One Piece Stampede.
- The Shaun the Sheep film gets a Farmageddon sequel film coming in 2019 and here's the trailer that sums it up.
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