4: Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida fired four of his senior ministers on Thursday in a bid to contain a financial scandal in which they’ve been implicated. It remains unclear whether the deeply unpopular Kishida will himself be accused of wrongdoing and what impact this purge will have on his standing within the governing Liberal Democratic Party.
8 million: About 8 million voters will head to the polls in Chad on Sunday to decide whether the vast Sahelian country should adopt a new constitution. With strong support from the military-led transitional government, the former ruling party, and the main opposition party led by Prime Minister Saleh Kebzabo, analysts say “yes” is assured to win. The “no” campaign unites various opposition parties that want to decentralize power, an issue that the “yes” camp has excluded from the referendum altogether.
7: Authorities in Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands on Thursday arrested 7 people on suspicion that they were plotting terrorist attacks against Jewish targets in Europe. Four of those arrested allegedly had ties to the senior leadership of Hamas.
50: Seeking a last-minute stocking stuffer for that Russian nationalist or Jan. 6 insurrectionist in your life? How about this calendar, now on sale by Russia’s security services for a mere $50, which features drawings of a muscle-bound Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers doing various heroic Russian things including securing … the US capitol?
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The US has paused Russian oil sanctions in a bid to stabilize energy markets rocked by the war with Iran. Administration officials stress that it’s a “tailored” measure, applying only to oil already loaded onto tankers, but it’s still a gift to Russia, which has already been clocking an extra $150 million daily in oil revenues since the war began.
4: The number of crew members aboard a US refuelling plane – out of six total – who died after the aircraft crashed in neighboring Iraq on Thursday, US Central Command said this morning.