BREAKING WORLD WAR III NEWS

THE U.S. IS CONCERNED BY RUSSIA-CHINA TELEPHONE CALL AS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN AND CHINESE PRESIDENT JINPING SHARE A DISTRUST OF THE WEST AND AIM TO BOOST COOPERATION

• The United States says it is concerned by China’s alignment with Russia after a call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
• The secretary of Belarus’s Security Council says it is “unlikely” that a Ukrainian air defence missile entered Belarusian airspace by accident.
• Putin sends foreign governments New Year’s wishes but US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron are left out.
• Kyiv residents have been urged to head to air raid shelters as sirens wailed across the Ukrainian capital, a day after Russia carried out the biggest aerial assault since it invaded in February.

Aljazeera, Dalia Hatuga, Edna Mohamed, Federica Marsi