USA - Former Vice President Joe Biden has a message for American Christians: If you don’t defect from your faith and embrace leftism, then you’re going to be added to the government’s terror watch list. This is what Biden promised during a recent CNN “town hall” event as he decried believers in Jesus Christ for opposing the radical LGBTQ agenda. In Biden’s view, unless you vigorously support the transgender mafia in its effort to “transition” all children into something other than their natural biological sex, then you’re a terrorist who deserves to be marginalized from society, and possibly even shipped off to Guantanamo. Biden’s antichrist position stems from a suggestion put forth by the radical, far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) hate group, which is pushing for all opposition to the Cult of LGBTQ to be designated as “terrorism,” which under George W Bush’s “Patriot Act” means that an individual’s constitutional rights are nullified.

GERMANY - Germans ranked President Donald Trump as more dangerous than North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and others in a recent poll. British survey company YouGov polled 2,024 Germans between December 16 and 18, asking which leader poses the “greatest threat to world peace.” Survey participants were offered five options to choose from: Trump, Kim Jong Un, Khamenei, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to Newsweek. 41% of those surveyed responded that Trump is the most dangerous of the five. 17% picked Kim, 8% chose Khamenei, another 8% chose Putin and 7% selected Xi.

UK - Mr Churchill is often commended as one of the greatest prime ministers in British history. He supported the idea of European unity during the Forties, before the European Union had come into existence – but he did not necessarily support the idea of Britain being part of such a bloc. The former prime minister was also officially recognised as one of the seven influential leaders who helped establish the foundations of the EU – he is even listed as one of the ‘Founding fathers of the European Union’.

ISRAEL - IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi on Wednesday lamented that Israel is alone in the fight against Iran and its proxies in the Middle East, as the Islamic Republic grows increasingly aggressive in the region. “It would be better if we weren’t the only ones responding to them [militarily]”, Kohavi said, in an apparent criticism of the United States and Persian Gulf countries, who also see Iran as a major foe. The military chief, in his first major speech, said the IDF was operating throughout the region — openly, covertly and clandestinely — in order to thwart the plans of Iran and its proxies, “even at the risk of war.”

UK - Christmas is celebrated worldwide on December 25 as the birthday of baby Jesus but not many might realise Christmas is not the de facto birth date of Christ. There are, however, many discrepancies between the biblical, historical and modern interpretations of Christmas that miss the mark of what really happened more than 2,000 years ago.

UNITED NATIONS - UN Women is probably seeking the prize for the most tone-deaf tweet of the year. How else can their “motherhood penalty” post on the day many Christians celebrate the most important birthday on the calendar be explained? The picture posted on Christmas cites things like “limited maternity benefits” and “gender pay gaps” as punishment for “being a mother.”

USA - The United States has flown four surveillance planes over the Korean Peninsula at the same time, according to an aviation tracker Wednesday, amid heightened concern that North Korea could test-fire a long-range missile as a "Christmas gift" to Washington.

Pyongyang has ramped up pressure on Washington to come up with a new proposal in their stalled nuclear talks by the end of the year, strongly suggesting that otherwise it could restart testing of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

It is unusual for four American surveillance planes to conduct missions around the Korean Peninsula at the same time. That appears to illustrate how much attention the US is paying to an increasingly belligerent North Korea. Warning that the deadline is drawing near, the North said it is entirely up to the US to decide what "Christmas gift" it selects to get, deepening concern the regime could conduct an intercontinental ballistic missile launch.

BRAZIL - Rio de Janeiro headquarters of the Brazilian comedy group Porta Dos Fundos has been attacked with Molotov cocktails. The incident comes weeks after it released a controversial movie, depicting Jesus as gay. “In the early morning of December 24, on Christmas Eve, the headquarters of Porta dos Fundos was the victim of an attack. Molotov cocktails were thrown at our building,” the comedy group confirmed. The fire was promptly contained by a security guard and no one was injured, yet the incident endangered “several innocent lives in the office and in the street,” it said.

GERMANY - The attack on a synagogue and the murder of a politician by right-wing extremists in 2019 sent shock waves through Germany. But the vast majority of Germans favor an open, tolerant society, writes Jens Thurau. To mark the beginning of Hanukkah, German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday sent a message of support to the country's Jewish community. She said it was a miracle that, after the Shoah, there is once again Jewish life in Germany. This miracle, she added, was something for which Germany can be "deeply thankful."

GERMANY - Mrs Angela Merkel has encouraged Donald Trump on many occasions in the recent past not to disparage the transatlantic alliance and the liberal international order. Yet, her ability to lead the liberal world seems quite low because she is now a lame-duck chancellor and the forces arrayed against the liberal order are also on the rise in Germany. Merkel's message that the time has finally arrived for Europeans to strengthen the EU integration process by endowing the EU with strong institutional capabilities in the fields of common economic, foreign, security and defense policy is also supported by French President Emmanuel Macron.

RUSSIA - The global economy is facing a threat of a spiraling protectionist measures that can lead to a devastating crisis, Vladimir Putin warned. Nations must find a way to prevent this and establish rules on how the economy should work. The Russian president spoke out against the growing trend of using unilateral restrictions to achieve economic advantage, as he addressed guests of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Friday. “The system of multilateral cooperation, which took years to build, is no longer allowed to evolve. It is being broken in a very crude way. Breaking the rules is becoming the new rule,” he said. “We don’t need trade wars today or even temporary trade ceasefires. We need a comprehensive trade peace,” the president stressed.

USA - President Donald Trump continued his campaign against windmills on Saturday, issuing one of the most detailed takedowns to date of one of the environmentalist’s favorite forms of energy. In a speech to Turning Point USA activists in Palm Beach Florida, the president mocked the idea of a windmill-driven economy proposed by Democrats promoting the “Green New Deal” in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail. “You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody I know,” Trump said. “It’s very expensive.” The president noted that windmill production actually created a tremendous amount of pollution, despite being branded as a “green” source of energy. Trump noted the windmills were typically produced in China and Germany — sending pollution into the air and hurting the planet. “Whether it’s in China, Germany, it’s going into the air,” he said. “It’s our air, their air, everything right?”

USA - Among the records the US set in 2019 was a sad and disturbing one. It was the year with the most incidents of mass killing since media and scholars started keeping track, according to a new study. There were 211 victims in 41 mass killings this year, according to the database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University in Boston. By their definition, a mass murder is any incident in which four or more people die, excluding the perpetrator. It is the largest number of mass killings since the two news organizations and the university started tracking them in 2006, when they recorded 38 incidents. They say “other research” going back to the 1970s shows no other year that can compare, either. “This seems to be the age of mass shootings,” James Densley, a criminologist and professor at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota, told AP.

UK - 2019 will be memorable for many reasons: Boris Johnson got elected, Green Book won best picture Oscar, Trump got impeached and Global Language Monitor announced 'Woke' as Word of the Year. According to Paul JJ Payack, president and chief word analyst at the Global Language Monitor, the word 'Woke' and society's new identitarian outlook on life has been gathering steam for a decade and "sins of the past are now viewed in the context of the present as subjects to be rectified, awakened to the call of social justice."

EUROPE - The next few months are set to be rocky for the EU alliance, as member countries agree on the terms of a trade deal with the UK. The EU27 need to agree a draft mandate by February 1 in order for trade talks to commence in March, but it’s not looking an easy task as some countries will need to make concessions in order for an agreement to be reached. One EU diplomat told Politico: “At a certain point there are going to be trade-offs necessary.”