President Trump Discusses Venezuela with Key Advisors + US & Ukraine Negotiators Discuss Border at Sunday Meeting + US Cautions Iraq Against Support to Hezbollah + Taiwan Funds Island-Wide AD System + More cover art

President Trump Discusses Venezuela with Key Advisors + US & Ukraine Negotiators Discuss Border at Sunday Meeting + US Cautions Iraq Against Support to Hezbollah + Taiwan Funds Island-Wide AD System + More

President Trump Discusses Venezuela with Key Advisors + US & Ukraine Negotiators Discuss Border at Sunday Meeting + US Cautions Iraq Against Support to Hezbollah + Taiwan Funds Island-Wide AD System + More

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1. President Trump Discusses Venezuela with Key Advisors.

2. Pope Leo XIV arrived Sunday in Lebanon from Turkey, where he opened his first trip as Pope. He is set to wrap up his visit on Tuesday with a prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port blast and a Mass on the waterfront.

3. US Cautions Iraq Against Support to Hezbollah.

4. Negotiations between the U.S. and Ukraine on Sunday focused on where the de facto border with Russia would be drawn under a peace deal.

Representing the US were Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump's adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner. The Ukrainian side was represented by national security adviser Rustem Umerov, military chief of staff Gen. Andrii Hnatov and deputy head of military intelligence Vadym Skibitskyi.

5. Ukraine's former military chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi has called for political change and reform once a peace deal is reached, in an op-ed for the Telegraph published on 29 Nov.

6. Taiwan Funds Island-Wide AD System.

The Taiwan President outlined his administration’s proposal for a $40 billion defense supplemental this week that would fund an island-wide air defense system and the procurement of missiles, drones and other anti-invasion capabilities.

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