There they go again! North Korea’s reclusive communist regime ended the year with a provocative intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch, flying near Japan and splashing down in the Pacific. The ominous firing of a powerful Hwasong-18 rocket came a month after Pyongyang put a spy satellite into orbit.
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Security Council postpones vote on Gaza draft resolution. The vote, originally scheduled for Monday, has been postponed several times. On December 8, the United States vetoed an earlier draft resolution calling for a "humanitarian ceasefire" in the besieged enclave. The new text is the result of arduous negotiations under the US threat to use its veto again, and no longer resembles the original version that the UAE put to the Security Council table on Sunday. The draft merely calls for urgent steps to allow immediate access to aid and create conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.