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Callas, High Representative of EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: The fall of Assad is a great blow to Putin and the Iranian regime.United Nations report: Three quarters of the earth's land is gradually dry due to climate change. The 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP 16) was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from December 2 to 13. On the 9th, the United Nations released a report during the meeting, saying that about three-quarters of the world's land has gradually become dry due to climate change. The report found that in the 30 years before 2020, about 77.6% of the world's land became drier than before. At present, except Antarctica, the dry land area accounts for about 40% of the global land area. Between 1990 and 2020 alone, the global dry land area increased by 4.3 million square kilometers.Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup: I feel very good about this year's revenue performance. Citigroup is expected to achieve the high end of the revenue guidance range in 2024, and plans to increase the stock repurchase scale after the bank's capital prospects are further clarified. "It is my top priority to return more of Citi's capital to investors," Mark Mason, chief financial officer of Citigroup, said at a conference organized by Goldman Sachs on Tuesday. "I am well aware of our trading level compared with our peers." Mason also said that the bank expects to reach the high end of the income guidance of $80 billion to $81 billion this year. "So it feels very good," he said. Mason said that spending may also be at the high end of the range. This shows that the bank will realize the forecast of two key indicators at the beginning of the year.

The S&P 500 index fell, and the Nasdaq 100 index was at an intraday low.The Group of Seven is expected to support the transitional government of Syria, Qatar, to get in touch with the new leaders, and the leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) will be willing to support the new Syrian government, provided that the transitional process respects minorities, and Qatar has become one of the first countries to establish communication with the armed groups that overthrew the Assad regime. According to the draft announcement that the G-7 plans to issue later this week, the G-7 "hopes that all opposition groups seeking to play a role in Syrian governance will show their commitment to the rights of all Syrians". The Group of Seven will say that this group of countries, including the United States, wants to see the safe return of millions of Syrians who fled under Assad. Many of them flooded into G-7 countries such as Germany after the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011.The EU plans to issue 90 billion euros of bonds in the first half of 2025.

Qatari Foreign Ministry: Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed received a phone call from US Secretary of State Blinken.Microsoft shareholders voted against the bitcoin investment proposal, and the voting results showed that Microsoft's major shareholders opposed the company's bitcoin investment proposal on Tuesday. Earlier, Microsoft's board of directors urged shareholders to reject a suggestion from the National Center for Public Policy Research that the company invest 1% of its total assets in Bitcoin to hedge against inflation. At the annual meeting, Michael Seiler, chairman of MicroStrategy, gave a three-minute speech, trying to persuade Microsoft shareholders to support this proposal. His company has invested billions of dollars in bitcoin. The data shows that the largest shareholder of Microsoft is institutional investors, including Pioneer Pilot and BlackRock.White House: It will continue to put pressure on the extremist organization "Islamic State".