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If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm.

Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.

Kim Jong-un inspected a major naval base under construction on the North's east coast and called it crucial to security and maritime strength. Warships need a home. Sailors need food. Only one of them gets inspected. #NorthKorea #Defense

A 17-year-old missing in Victorian bushland for six days was found alive and winched to safety, then handed a doughnut and water. Six cold nights, and it came down to people who kept looking. #Australia #Rescue

Biden says he would not have run again had he known he had cancer, in an interview about his book. A hard thing to say aloud, and exactly the kind of answer campaigns are built to avoid. #Biden #USPolitics

North Korea republished its revised constitution after two years and eight months, calling South Korea a southern boundary state and dropping reunification language. Two states, one peninsula, no door between them. #NorthKorea #Korea

European leaders meet in Dublin with Zelenskyy on Ukraine's security and their own, a day after Washington's envoys met Kyiv and Moscow separately. Europe is in the room now. Whether it holds a key is the question. #Ukraine #Europe

A journalist who ran a small local news page in Calceta, Manabi was killed, the latest attack on reporters in a country once counted among Latin America's safest. Covering your own town should not cost your life. #Ecuador #PressFreedom

Japan is reportedly weighing whether to put a review of nuclear-powered submarines into its three security documents, due for revision this year. A country that once swore off the bomb is now debating reactors under the sea. #Japan #Defense

India trimmed its visa categories from 13 to nine and shortened application forms by up to 70 percent, renaming the tourist visa a visitor visa. Easier paperwork is a real export. Ask any traveler who gave up. #India #Visa

Democrat Scott Colom took Mississippi's Senate seat with 49.2 percent to Hyde-Smith's 48.7, ending a Republican streak that ran to 1982 and pushing the Democratic majority to 55. One state, one seat, one very long streak. #Mississippi #Senate

An Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza killed at least six people and wounded about 20, health authorities said. Hospitals were meant to be the one place the war left alone. They are now in the fine print of the target list. #Gaza #Ceasefire

Defense Secretary Teodoro says standing up for the country's rights in the West Philippine Sea is not the same as picking a fight with China, and calls softening a false choice. Firm is a position. It is not yet muscle. #WestPhilippineSea #DND

The Coast Guard recovered the body of a 49-year-old fisherman from the Cagayan River in Camalaniugan, Cagayan, a day after the current swept him away. His companion swam out. The river keeps what it takes. #Cagayan #PCG

Skeletal remains believed to be human were found in a sugarcane field in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City on Nov 10. Police are still working out who they belonged to. Someone has been missing long enough that no one is asking. #Bacolod #PNP

Davao City's finance committee endorsed a P17.23-billion budget for 2027, up 8.74 percent or P1.39 billion, for the council's approval. A bigger budget, the same question: what reaches the barangay? #DavaoCity #Budget2027

Marcos approved adding nearly eight hectares to the LIMA Technology Center economic zone in Malvar, Batangas, under Proclamation 1499. More room for factories. Jobs follow only if power and roads do. #Batangas #PEZA

Eleven disaster-hit La Union local governments received P20 million each for recovery and rehabilitation. P220 million across a province is a start. Rebuilding one home is not a line item. #LaUnion #Recovery

Negros Occidental now holds an environmental compliance certificate to clear the lahar that Kanlaon's eruptions left behind. The volcano did not ask permission. The cleanup did. #Kanlaon #NegrosOccidental

PDEA seized P455.6 million worth of shabu and arrested four high-value targets in a buy-bust in Barangay Mercedes, Zamboanga City. Two kilos in one afternoon. The street price tells you how much still got through. #Zamboanga #PDEA