The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will meet on December 4-5, which will likely revise recommendations on vaccination of newborns against hepatitis B, ABC reports . According to the published meeting agenda, the first day is scheduled to include a discussion and vote on the vaccine. Earlier, US Secretary of Health Robert Kennedy Jr.

Malaysia's Transport Ministry said it would resume the search for the wreckage of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing that went missing in March 2014. This is stated in a press release from the department. The search will begin on December 30. They will be led by the American company Ocean Infinity, specializing in the field of marine robotics. The search operation will last 55 days. It is unclear where exactly the search will take place.

As a result of negotiations between Vladimir Putin and the US delegation, no “compromise option” for a peaceful settlement of the war in Ukraine was found. This was stated by Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Yuri Ushakov. Negotiations began late in the evening of December 2 and lasted about five hours. They ended after midnight on Wednesday, December 3. The American delegation was represented by special envoy Steven Witkoff and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Hundreds of TikTok accounts are racking up billions of views for posting AI-generated content, including anti-immigrant and sexualized content, according to a report by French nonprofit AI Forensics. Researchers found 354 accounts that published 43,000 posts created using generative AI tools in a month and received 4.5 billion views.

Turkish shipping company Besiktas Shipping announced that it will cease all cargo transportation operations related to Russia. This was reported by Reuters with reference to a statement from the organization. In late November, the company's oil tanker Mersin was damaged by explosions while anchored off the coast of Senegal.

The Babushkinsky Court of Moscow sentenced the former head of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal to 23 years in prison in the case of the theft of 2 billion rubles from SME Bank. RIA Novosti reports this. As follows from the decision, in conjunction with the previous sentence, Furgal was sentenced to 25 years in a maximum security colony. The court also deprived Furgal of the right to hold positions in government bodies for 2 years and 6 months after his release.

More than 1,400 people have died in floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, AP reports. More than 1,000 people are listed as missing. Indonesia was hardest hit, with at least 753 people killed. In Sri Lanka, at least 465 people became victims of the disaster; the president of the island state, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, warned that the exact number of deaths had not yet been established.

The head of the Italian Foreign Ministry called the country’s participation in the NATO program to purchase American weapons for Ukraine premature. Antonio Tajani, who also holds the post of Deputy Prime Minister, as reported by Bloomberg, told reporters in Brussels: “If we reach an agreement and the fighting stops, the weapons will no longer be needed.

In Belgorod, the concerts of the singer Shaman, which were supposed to take place on December 3 and 4, were canceled, citing the threat of “provocations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” “My team and I were just informed about the closure of the Energomash cultural center. According to available information, a provocation was planned by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during two concerts,” the singer said.

Indian authorities are ready to review a regulation obliging smartphone manufacturers to pre-install a government cybersecurity application on new devices, the country's Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Sindia said after criticism of the initiative from the public and business. Reuters reports this. “We are ready to change the order based on the feedback received,” the minister told parliament.

The US Presidential Administration has ordered a temporary suspension of all immigration applications (including green cards or citizenship applications) from 19 countries located primarily in the Middle East and Africa. This was reported by NBC News with reference to a statement from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

The EU Council and the European Parliament have agreed on regulations for the phase-out of imports of Russian natural gas. According to a press release published on the EU Council website, a complete ban on long-term contracts for gas supplies from Russia will come into force no later than November 1, 2027. A transition period is expected to be maintained for existing contracts.

The Central District Court of Voronezh sentenced US citizen Robert Gilman to 2 years in prison in a new case - an attack on prison staff while serving his sentence. Combined with the previous sentence, the term was 10 years in prison, RIA Novosti reports, citing Gilman’s lawyer Irina Brazhnikova. The agency clarifies that the new case concerns two episodes of Gilman’s use of violence against FSIN employees. The US citizen was found guilty of disorganizing the work of a colony.

The rector of the College of Europe and former EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, who was detained the day before in Belgium on fraud charges, was released around 1 am. This was reported by the Italian news agency AGI, citing sources familiar with the investigation. Along with Mogherini, the former Secretary General of the European External Action Service, Italian diplomat Stefano Sannino and another person were detained.

Domestic spending on vaccines and medications, subsidies for paying medical staff, and programs supporting mothers and newborns are being rapidly reduced in the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. At the same time, global health aid to low-income countries has fallen to its lowest level in 15 years, dropping by half since the end of the Covid pandemic.