--- title: December 11th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 24 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/magazine/south-pacific/5042943/december-11th-2017-vol-190-no-24-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific/ og:title: December 11th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 24 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/magazine/south-pacific/5042943/december-11th-2017-vol-190-no-24-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd39fd542662c899/6988e75222fb850ff0e23d60/g9510-20_troops-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2363 og:image:height: 1329 og:image:alt: America Failing Troops Time Magazine Cover 171211 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: December 11th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 24 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd39fd542662c899/6988e75222fb850ff0e23d60/g9510-20_troops-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Back to the vault # December 11, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 24December 11, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 24  Issue name December 11th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 24 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific Issue date December 11, 2017 Location Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific Related categories [Military](/vault/subject/military/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsU.S.World ### Business [Business](/section/business/) ### Loading Up on Stocks With Dividends Is Risky In an Aging Bull Market ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Golden Globe Winner _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ Stars a Retro Heroine for Modern Times [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Jeff Daniels’ Godless Is a Satisfying Twist on a Classic Genre [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### _Call Me By Your Name_ and _The Shape of Water_ Fearlessly Display Love [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Miguel Mixes Sensuality and Social Consciousness in New Album _War & Leisure_ [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### U2 Shows Off Hard-Won Experience ### Health [Health](/section/health/) ### 5 Famous Cooks Share How to Make Vegetables Taste Great [Health](/section/health/) ### Why Your Odds of Getting a Heart Transplant Are So Low 50 years after the landmark first surgery ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Tina Brown Talks Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and the Future of Media [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### How America Became So Divided ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Fighting Donald Trump Cost Jeff Flake His Job. But He's Not Going Quietly A feud with the President may have cost Jeff Flake his Senate seat. But he's not done fighting for the soul of the GOP ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### The New American Way of War A growing reliance on elite forces is taking a toll on commandos--and the country ### World [World](/section/world/) ### India's Culture War Stirs Up Trouble In Bollywood [World](/section/world/) ### A Distracted Angela Merkel Is Bad News for the World [World](/section/world/) ### What You Said About … [World](/section/world/) ### North Korea's Year of Missile Milestones North Korea launched a new Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Nov. 29 that Pyongyang claimed could hit any target in the U.S. It's just the most recent milestone in a year when the rogue nation has launched at least 20 ballistic missiles, including three ICBMs. December 11th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 24 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"December 11th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 24 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific","item":"https://time.com/magazine/south-pacific/5042943/december-11th-2017-vol-190-no-24-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific/"}]}]} ```