Zelensky gives stark warning as EU leaders hold crunch talks on Russia's frozen assets: Ukraine is months from running out of cash and Zelensky said without an injection by spring Ukraine "will have to reduce production of drones" (LINK) 18 December 2025

Trump touts economic record in primetime address as U.S. unemployment ticks higher (LINK) 17 December 2025

NBC: Fact-checking Trump: economy, wages, immigration and more: some claims were true, some were misleading, and others were false. (LINK) 17 December 2025

Australia police charge surviving attacker at Jewish Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach: 59 charges being introduced after the shooting that also wounded dozens (LINK) 17 December 2025

— Two attackers, identified as 50-year-old Sajid Akram and his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram, carried out the attack using six firearms owned by the former. Police are still waiting for medication to wear off before formally questioning the son, who was shot but survived the shooting. Sajid Akram died at the scene of the shooting.