- Pangasinan Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil expressed confidence that the bill seeking to protect, preserve and conserve the Philippines’ indigenous or traditional writing systems would finally hurdle the Lower Chamber when Congress resumes session in January.
- Assault firearms and thousands of ammunition rounds believed to be the property of the Philippine Army were seized by police authorities from a couple during an entrapment operation in Valenzuela City.
- The Sandiganbayan Fifth Division remained firm on its decision to deny the demurrer to evidence filed by former Local Water Utilities Administration chief Prospero Pichay regarding his breach of conduct charge due to the reportedly illegal P1.5-million sponsorship for the National Chess Federation of the Philippines eight years ago.
- Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in an interview that the US President knew that his former lawyer Michael Cohen was working on the Trump Tower Moscow deal all the way up to November 2016.
- Saudi Arabia slammed as "interference" US Senate resolutions over its war in Yemen and critic Jama Khashoggi's murder, warning that the move could have repercussions on its strategic ties with Washington. The largely symbolic vote dealt a fresh warning to President Donald Trump, who has staunchly backed the Saudi regime in the face of intense global outrage that analysts say has left the kingdom diplomatically weakened.
- People filled a square in the French city of Strasbourg on Sunday to show respect and sympathy for the victims of last week’s shooting attack near a famous Christmas market as the death toll rose to five.
- The French government was on Sunday hoping the sharp drop in “yellow vest” demonstrators signaled an end to the biggest crisis of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency but conceded “mistakes” had been made.
- Ottawa’s ambassador to Beijing has met with the second Canadian detained in China on suspicion of threatening national security, Canada’s foreign ministry said. Ambassador John McCallum had met with Michael Spavor, a business consultant, two days after meeting with another detained Canadian, Michael Kovrig, a think tank employee.
- Mitsubishi returns to the 2019 Dakar Rally with their Eclipse Cross T1 Prototype, driven by Christina Gutierrez and Pablo Huete. It is built around a steel spaceframe chassis with a carbon fibre body, and employs double wishbone suspension with two fully-adjustable Ohlins dampers on each wheel. It has a mechanical centre differential and limited slip differentials on its full-time 4WD system, allowing it transmit all 340hp of power from its turbodiesel engine while mated to a 6-speed gearbox. Brakes provided by AP Racing.
- Euro 6 diesel cars might get banned from Madrid, Paris, and Brussels after European courts overturned a relaxation of EU emissions limits, according to reports.
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