The American media conglomerate Paramount addressed the shareholders of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) directly to buy their shares for cash at a higher price than the streaming service Netflix did, the corporation said in an official statement. Paramount is willing to pay $30 per share, while Netflix planned to buy WBD at $27.75 per share. At the same time, Paramount believes that their proposal will force the WBD board of directors to abandon the deal with Netflix, which it had already approved.

The head of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, told Vladimir Putin about “European artificial intelligence,” who was appointed minister, but he managed to “steal.” “In one of the European Union countries they took and appointed a minister in the form of artificial intelligence, and now they are making claims against him because, well, he stole,” said the head of the lower house of the Russian parliament.

After the birth of her second child, Sen Ling Yu began writing Harry Potter fanfiction in notes on her phone, and then began publishing it on the Internet. It quickly gained popularity - it was viewed more than 10 million times. In the fall of 2025, based on this fan fiction, the novel Alchemised was published. Already in the first weeks, the book became one of the best-selling books in the world, and the rights to its film adaptation were sold for several million dollars.

A criminal case has been opened against a teacher at one of the Voronezh schools under two articles - sexual intercourse with a person under 16 years of age (Part 1 of Article 134 of the Criminal Code) and indecent assault (Part 1 of Article 135 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee (IC).

The United States does not know how to force Ukraine to abandon Donbass, the territory of which the Russian army was never able to completely capture, Politico reports , citing a senior European official. According to him, the parties cannot find a compromise on issues of peaceful settlement. The American delegation has a simple attitude: it knows Moscow’s demands and is trying to extract concessions from Ukraine.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 occurred off the coast of Japan at a depth of 50 kilometers. A tsunami warning has been issued for the northern prefectures of Aomori, Hokkaido and Iwate, the Japan Meteorological Agency said . The earthquake occurred near the Japanese prefecture of Aomori around 11:15 local time. According to the agency, the height of the tsunami in some areas could reach three meters, so authorities urged local residents to immediately leave coastal areas.

About 200 residents of the Glushkovsky and Sudzhansky districts came out to a spontaneous rally in the center of Kursk. After the governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, canceled cash payments to border residents who suffered from the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, people brought written appeals addressed to Vladimir Putin demanding that this measure of financial support be maintained.

In 2026, Russian regions and the government must begin to “whiten” the country’s economy—the development of a transparent, competitive business environment. Vladimir Putin said this at a meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects. “In connection with the VAT increase, we need to ensure that nothing goes into the shadows, that everything works legally, and that the corresponding revenues flow into the budget,” the Kremlin press service quotes the politician.

A resident of the Moscow region town of Kotelniki was detained on suspicion of murdering his neighbor and her 6-year-old son, TASS writes with reference to the department of the Investigative Committee (IC) for the Moscow region. The Investigative Committee believes that the incident occurred due to a protracted domestic conflict. The bodies of the victims were found in the apartment with numerous injuries to the head, security officials told the agency.

Residents of the city of Angarsk in the Irkutsk region were left without heating after an accident at the local CHPP-9. The temperature at night in the city drops to -32 degrees, writes “Important Stories”. More than 167 thousand people in the city were left without heating; heat was not supplied to 121 socially significant facilities. This list includes, for example, schools and hospitals. 14 city schools have already switched to remote learning due to low temperatures in educational buildings.

This fall, volunteers noticed dogs with blue fur in the exclusion zone in Chernobyl. Then the American non-profit organization “Dogs of Chernobyl” published videos in which animals with an unusual color looked “very active and healthy.” University of South Carolina biology professor Timothy Musso explained the nature of this phenomenon.

People's Artist of Russia Larisa Dolina, in a lawsuit against the buyer of her apartment in the Khamovniki district of Moscow, indicated that Polina Lurie allegedly did not show “even the minimum level of reasonable diligence and caution” when concluding the transaction. TASS writes about this with reference to the text of the court decision on the dispute between Dolina and Lurie.

The average price per barrel of Russian Urals oil, which accounts for the bulk of Russia's oil exports, fell to $44.87 in November. This is stated in the latest report of the Ministry of Economic Development. After the introduction of American sanctions against the two largest Russian oil companies - Rosneft and Lukoil - a barrel of Urals fell in price by almost nine dollars or 18% compared to October.

A resident of the city of Nanded in the Indian state of Maharashtra, 21-year-old Aanchal Mamidwar, married her lover Saksham Tate, whom local police said was killed by her father and brothers. This was reported by The New Indian Express and Hindustan Times . Saksham Tate and Aanchal Mamidwar.

The Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Labor have developed amendments to the Labor Code that will allow Russians to work more overtime in order to earn more. RIA Novosti writes about this after reading the contents of the document. The publication reminds that, according to current legislation, the duration of overtime work should not exceed four hours for each employee for two consecutive days and 120 hours per calendar year.