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Trump warns Colombian President Gustavo Petro he will ‘be next’ amid drug trafficking rift (LINK) 10 December 2025
First of 30 oil lease sales planned for Gulf of Mexico draws $300 million from companies (LINK) 10 December 2025
Jared Kushner and three Arab monarchies are at the heart of the Paramount-WBD bid that will require administration approval (LINK) 11 December 2025
Canada's DC envoy to exit as US trade talks stall (LINK) 10 December 2025
Judge blocks Trump's National Guard deployment in LA with sharp rebuke (LINK) 10 December 2025
Heather Cox Richardson: the U.S. government did not recognize Human Rights Day this year (LINK) 10 December 2025
Sen. Warren presses Bessent and Swiss megabank UBS on private conversations on the bank's possible move to the U.S., exposing taxpayers to risk (LINK) 10 December 2025
Al Jazeera: Fact-checking Trump's Pennsylvania speech and his Politico interview (LINK) 10 December 2025
- Trump did not, in fact, inherit the "worst inflation" in history. The annualized inflation rate was below 3 percent during the six months before Trump took office in his second term.
- He claimed that Ilhan Omar, the Democrat who has served as a Minnesota representative in Congress since 2019, is in the US illegally. Trump also claimed that Somalia has no military, parliament or police. Somalia does have a military, a parliament and a police force. Omar became eligible for citizenship five years after she entered the US, and finally became a citizen in 2000, when she was 17 years old. Trump: "She married her brother in order to get in, right … she married her brother to get in, therefore she's here illegally." There is no verifiable evidence to back up allegations that either Hirsi or Elmi, her previous husbands, is Omar's brother.
- During the Pennsylvania rally, Trump claimed the Democrats want “transgender for every member in your family”. There is certainly no evidence that the Democratic Party believes all families should have a transgender member.
- Trump also said: "Black people love Trump. I got the biggest vote with Black people." Overall, he secured 20 percent of the Black vote in November 2024 — a big rise from the 12 percent he won in 2020. However, this means that his opponent for the presidency, Democrat Kamala Harris, in fact won the majority of the Black vote.
Israel named by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) asleading killer of journalists in 2025 for third straight year (LINK) 9 December 2025
India plans to continue buying Russian oil despite sanctions (LINK) 9 December 2025
The US solicitor general, who represents the federal government before the US Supreme Court, has weighed in on the side of Bayer subsidiary Monsanto in the company's efforts to protect itself from a barrage of lawsuits claiming that its glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup causes cancer (LINK) 9 December 2025
Breaking news
Trump says U.S. seized oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela (LINK) 10 December 2025
Venezuela decries 'act of piracy' — (LINK)
Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado appears in Norway after dramatic escape from Venezuela: her first public appearance in almost a year since she went into hiding after being barred from running in her country's presidential election (LINK) 10 December 2025
Trump says U.S. seized oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela (LINK) 10 December 2025
Venezuela decries 'act of piracy' — (LINK)
Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado appears in Norway after dramatic escape from Venezuela: her first public appearance in almost a year since she went into hiding after being barred from running in her country's presidential election (LINK) 10 December 2025
— Her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa Machado, is set to accept the award in her place. Machado, who holds many right-wing views, dedicated her prize in part to United States President Donald Trump, who has said that he himself deserved the honour and was infuriated that he did not receive it. (LINK)
Ukraine presents response to US peace plan as Trump says European leaders want a meeting (LINK) 10 December 2025
Geneva-based Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has cut 300 posts (LINK) 10 December 2025
— "Essential work has had to be eliminated, particularly in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burma, Tunisia and other countries."
Trump launches $1m 'gold card' immigration visas (LINK) 10 December 2025
US Fed just cut interest rates for the third-straight time (LINK) 10 December 2025
Trump talks Ukraine peace deal with Macron, Merz and Starmer (LINK) 10 December 2025
Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan (LINK) 10 December 2025
SOS Méditerranée's rescue operations at risk through Geneva funding cuts: $3.3m short for 2025-2026 operations, over a quarter of its budget (LINK) 9 December 2025
— IFRC ending collaboration. Over the last ten years, nearly 33,000 people have died trying to reach Europe via the central Mediterranean. Since 2016, almost 43,000 have been rescued by the NGO.
3 separate US strikes on alleged drug boats have initially left survivors. Each time they’ve been treated differently (LINK) 10 December 2025
Fox News: Zelenskyy ready to present new peace proposals to US and Russia after working with European talks (LINK) 9 December 2025
Ukraine's last eastern strongholds hang on as Russia fights to take Donbas (LINK) 9 December 2025
UN environment report 'hijacked' over fossil fuels, its co-chair says: United States and other countries were unwilling to go along with the scientific findings in the Global Environment Outlook, the result of six years' work (LINK) 9 December 2025
— BBC: At a meeting with government representatives to agree the findings, the US and allies said they could not go along with a summary of the report's conclusions. As the scientists were unwilling to water down or change their findings, the report has now been published without the summary and without the support of governments, weakening its impact.
A sustainable future requires new thinking: UNEP environment report (LINK) 9 December 2025
— The agency calls the report the most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken, with input from 287 multi-disciplinary scientists from 82 countries — stretching to well over 1,000 pages. It calls for a transition to circular economy models; a rapid decarbonisation of the energy system; a shift towards sustainable diets, reduced waste and improved agricultural practices; and expanding protected areas and restoring degraded ecosystems — all backed by behavioural, social and cultural shifts that include Indigenous and local knowledge.
Snopes: DOD gave $620M loan to startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm: Pentagon told Snopes he was "not involved in any aspect" of the deal (LINK) 9 December 2025
Major news
Trump warns Colombian President Gustavo Petro he will ‘be next’ amid drug trafficking rift (LINK) 10 December 2025
First of 30 oil lease sales planned for Gulf of Mexico draws $300 million from companies (LINK) 10 December 2025
Jared Kushner and three Arab monarchies are at the heart of the Paramount-WBD bid that will require administration approval (LINK) 11 December 2025
Canada's DC envoy to exit as US trade talks stall (LINK) 10 December 2025
Judge blocks Trump's National Guard deployment in LA with sharp rebuke (LINK) 10 December 2025
Heather Cox Richardson: the U.S. government did not recognize Human Rights Day this year (LINK) 10 December 2025
Sen. Warren presses Bessent and Swiss megabank UBS on private conversations on the bank's possible move to the U.S., exposing taxpayers to risk (LINK) 10 December 2025
Al Jazeera: Fact-checking Trump's Pennsylvania speech and his Politico interview (LINK) 10 December 2025
- Trump did not, in fact, inherit the "worst inflation" in history. The annualized inflation rate was below 3 percent during the six months before Trump took office in his second term.
- He claimed that Ilhan Omar, the Democrat who has served as a Minnesota representative in Congress since 2019, is in the US illegally. Trump also claimed that Somalia has no military, parliament or police. Somalia does have a military, a parliament and a police force. Omar became eligible for citizenship five years after she entered the US, and finally became a citizen in 2000, when she was 17 years old. Trump: "She married her brother in order to get in, right … she married her brother to get in, therefore she's here illegally." There is no verifiable evidence to back up allegations that either Hirsi or Elmi, her previous husbands, is Omar's brother.
- During the Pennsylvania rally, Trump claimed the Democrats want “transgender for every member in your family”. There is certainly no evidence that the Democratic Party believes all families should have a transgender member.
- Trump also said: "Black people love Trump. I got the biggest vote with Black people." Overall, he secured 20 percent of the Black vote in November 2024 — a big rise from the 12 percent he won in 2020. However, this means that his opponent for the presidency, Democrat Kamala Harris, in fact won the majority of the Black vote.
Israel named by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) asleading killer of journalists in 2025 for third straight year (LINK) 9 December 2025
India plans to continue buying Russian oil despite sanctions (LINK) 9 December 2025
The US solicitor general, who represents the federal government before the US Supreme Court, has weighed in on the side of Bayer subsidiary Monsanto in the company's efforts to protect itself from a barrage of lawsuits claiming that its glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup causes cancer (LINK) 9 December 2025
Miscellaneous
Hundreds of items taken in 'high-value' Bristol museum raid on 25 September: police release photo of four men sought (LINK) 11 December 2025
Gotthard Base Tunnel work will delay Swiss trains in January: almost all trains will travel via the mountain route., taking an hour longer: exceptions are early and late connections and trains travelling between Germany and Italy (LINK) 10 December 2025
OpenAI, Anthropic, Block launch agentic AI standards body under the Linux Foundation, joined by Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare (LINK) 10 December 2025
Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott unveils record $7.1 billion in 2024 gifts (LINK) 10 December 2025
Hundreds of items taken in 'high-value' Bristol museum raid on 25 September: police release photo of four men sought (LINK) 11 December 2025
Gotthard Base Tunnel work will delay Swiss trains in January: almost all trains will travel via the mountain route., taking an hour longer: exceptions are early and late connections and trains travelling between Germany and Italy (LINK) 10 December 2025
OpenAI, Anthropic, Block launch agentic AI standards body under the Linux Foundation, joined by Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare (LINK) 10 December 2025
Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott unveils record $7.1 billion in 2024 gifts (LINK) 10 December 2025
— Scott, 55, made the latest donations to 186 organizations around the world, including universities, environmental nonprofits, and groups fighting for equality. So far, she has donated over $26 billion in gifts to over 2,700 non-profit organizations.
Louvre thieves escaped with just 30 seconds to spare, French Senate inquiry finds (LINK) 10 December 2025
— Lawmakers detailed a cascade of security failures that allowed the gang to slip away in broad daylight.
Royal Caribbean makes port change from Cozumel to Nassau's Royal Beach Club Paradise Island — some guests aren't happy (LINK) 10 December 2025
Pfizer is reportedly shedding hundreds of jobs in Switzerland (LINK) 10 December 2025
SOS Méditerranée's rescue operations at risk through Geneva funding cuts: $3.3m short for 2025-2026 operations, over a quarter of its budget (LINK) 9 December 2025
— IFRC ending collaboration. Over the last ten years, nearly 33,000 people have died trying to reach Europe via the central Mediterranean. Since 2016, almost 43,000 have been rescued by the NGO.
Amazon announces $35 billion investment in India by 2030 to advance AI innovation, create jobs (LINK) 9 December 2025
Heather Cox Richardson: Cable news, AI and manipulating voters (LINK) 9 December 2025
Louis XIV's cause of death revealed by DNA from his mummified heart 310 years after he was buried in Paris: longest reigning monarch in European history died four days short of his 77th birthday on 1 September 1715 from fungus infection not bacterial agents in gangrene: the king was in agony for two weeks before his death (LINK) 9 December 2025
Decoding the chemistry of life: revealing how mutations alter enzymes and drive drug resistance through 'maximum entropy' (LINK) 9 December 2025
Pompeii house frozen mid-renovation reveals secrets of Roman cement: reactive hot-mix method — highly reactive quicklime (dry heated limestone) is mixed with volcanic ash and water, setting off a chemical reaction that produces heat and gives the material self-healing capabilities (LINK) 9 December 2025
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