Your daily round-up of today's news:
- South Africa's African National Congress opened its national conference in Johannesburg where the party will elect its leadership for a new term. President Cyril Ramaphosa is taking part in it.
- Russia is planning a large ground offensive in Ukraine in the new year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and senior officials have warned.
- A landslide that engulfed the campsite near Kuala Lumpur is known to have killed 13 people while 20 are missing.
- US President Joe Biden has authorized the release of most of the thousands of previously secret official documents linked to the assassination of John F. Kennedy Nearly six decades after the killing, some files became partially available.
- Twitter shuts down most of the accounts of journalists writing for high-profile outlets, most of whom have written critically about Elon Musk's takeover of the firm. Musk tweeted that anyone writing details of people's movements will be suspended for a week. The affected journalists worked at CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Times among others.
- The UN World Food Program warns that emergency food aid for flood-hit areas in Pakistan will run out by mid-January.
- A movie adaptation of the Death Stranding video game is in the works. Hammerstone Studios will produce the movie based on Hideo Kojima's game.
- The San Francisco 49ers nailed its NFC West division title after their win against the Seattle Seahawks at the score of 21-13.
- The NFL has awarded five new national grants through its Inspire Change social justice initiative to organizations focused on police and community relations.
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