The French National Assembly (lower house of parliament) overwhelmingly supported a vote of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier, Le Figaro reports . 331 deputies voted for this decision, with the required 289 votes. Due to the vote of no confidence, the prime minister and the government will resign. Barnier will remain acting prime minister until French President Emmanuel Macron chooses his successor.

US President-elect Donald Trump nominated the billionaire founder of the payment processing company Shift4 Payments, Jared Isaacman, to the post of head of the American space agency NASA. He wrote about this on the social network Truth Social.

The US Treasury Department announced that it is imposing sanctions against five individuals and four entities associated with the TGR Group. In a press release from the department, it is called an “extensive international network”, which, in particular, helped representatives of the Russian elite to circumvent sanctions. According to the US Treasury, TGR Group is a Russian company controlled by Ukrainian citizen George Rossi, and it has representative offices in the UK, Europe and Asia.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, admitted during a direct line with residents of the republic that Tesla head Elon Musk did not give him the Cybertruck electric car. “I’m interested in Elon Musk himself, I like his character, his lifestyle, the way he behaves, his position in life, I like to joke with him through social networks. He didn’t give me the car, the car wasn’t mine - I came up with this joke and launched it,” Kadyrov said, answering a question about the Cybertruck.

The Petrozavodsk City Court found 79-year-old local resident Tatyana Savinkina guilty of “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code), reports the From Karelia with freedom telegram channel. The court imposed a fine of 200 thousand rubles on Savinkina, but released her from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The prosecutor's office asked for the same decision in October.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, arrived at the venue of his “direct line” with the residents of the republic, which will take place on December 4, in a “captured armored personnel carrier.” This was reported by Grozny Inform. 12 Ukrainian prisoners were brought with him, TASS writes. RIA Novosti claims that Kadyrov arrived in an American Bradley infantry fighting vehicle. The broadcast also showed a dialogue between Kadyrov and a Ukrainian prisoner.

The Maltese authorities have canceled the visa of Russian Foreign Ministry official Maria Zakharova ahead of the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE Ministerial Council), which will be held on December 5-6 in Valletta.

The CEO of one of the largest health insurance companies in the United States, UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was killed in New York, CNN reports. On the morning of December 4, 50-year-old Thompson was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan as he walked toward the New York Hilton Hotel for UnitedHealthcare's annual investment conference. According to police, the masked gunman waited for Thompson for about ten minutes and shot him several times from a distance of 20 feet (six meters).

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Samara Region is conducting an investigation following a statement from the regional governor, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, who spoke about the system of bribes to football referees. Interfax was informed about this by the department's press service.

Your browser does not support the audio element. The United States accuses Russian woman Nomma Zarubina of working for the FSB. How are Russian agents operating in the West now? Narrated by Irina Borogan and Andrey Soldatov On December 2, it became known that the US Department of Justice accused Russian citizen Nomma Zarubina, who lives in New York, of collaborating with Russian intelligence services.

One thousand and fifteen days. The Russian Ministry of Defense accidentally disclosed data on how many Russian military personnel are wanted as missing in action in Ukraine - 48 thousand Roman Pilipey / AFP / Scanpix / LETA A bar in Kyiv during an emergency power outage, December 3, 2024 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken believes Ukrainian authorities will have to make “difficult decisions” about further mobilization to counter the Russian invasion. He said this at a press conference in Brussels, where the summit of NATO foreign ministers was taking place; the Secretary of State’s speech was broadcast by Reuters. Blinken was asked what specific measures NATO is proposing to strengthen Kyiv's position ahead of possible negotiations with Russia.

Police officers came with searches to the offices of opposition parties and to the home of the administrators of the Facebook platform “Daitove”, where participants and organizers of protests exchange information, Ekho Kavkaza and Mtavari TV channel reported.

Armenia considers itself outside the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), and the country’s return to the organization is impossible, said Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, speaking in parliament on December 4. His words are quoted by Interfax.

The WSJ tells his story - from the war in Iraq against US forces to calls for the US terrorist designation to be lifted US State Department/Wikimedia Commons In 2003, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, born Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, traveled from Syria to Iraq to help repel the US invasion as a volunteer. He ended up in an American prison camp, returned to Syria only in 2011 and became an emissary of the founder of the Islamic State , Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.