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US Court disqualifies ex-Trump lawyer Alina Habba as New Jersey prosecutor (LINK) 1 December 2025
— The US appeals court struck down the attempt by President Donald Trump to bypass the customary Senate confirmation process and appoint his former personal lawyer to a post as a top federal prosecutor.
China's state defence giants see revenue slump as corruption probes stall procurement (LINK) 1 December 2025
Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, announces $100K humanitarian aid for Sri Lanka as Cyclone Ditwah triggers severe flooding in Southeast Asia (LINK) 1 December 2025
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Trump reportedly gave President Maduro ultimatum to relinquish power in Venezuela on 30 November phone call (LINK) 1 December 2025
For the first time since 1988, the U.S. is not officially commemorating World AIDS Day (LINK) 1 December 2025
Switzerland rejects compulsory service for women and tax for the super-rich (LINK) 30 November 2025
Major news
US Court disqualifies ex-Trump lawyer Alina Habba as New Jersey prosecutor (LINK) 1 December 2025
US Court disqualifies ex-Trump lawyer Alina Habba as New Jersey prosecutor (LINK) 1 December 2025
— The US appeals court struck down the attempt by President Donald Trump to bypass the customary Senate confirmation process and appoint his former personal lawyer to a post as a top federal prosecutor.
China's state defence giants see revenue slump as corruption probes stall procurement (LINK) 1 December 2025
Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, announces $100K humanitarian aid for Sri Lanka as Cyclone Ditwah triggers severe flooding in Southeast Asia (LINK) 1 December 2025
Miscellaneous
Ex-Credit Suisse employee charged with money laundering by lending to Mozambican state-owned companies totalling over $2 billion (CHF1.6 billion): Credit Suisse and its successor company UBS are accused of failing to prevent the offence (LINK) 1 December 2025
— swissinfo: The loans were granted by the Credit Suisse Financial Group to three Mozambican state-owned companies in 2013. In 2016, they became known as the "Mozambique debt scandal". In 2020, the OAG opened initial criminal proceedings in this connection, which it is currently conducting against two people on suspicion of money laundering and aiding and abetting the bribery of foreign public officials.
Swiss crossword setter, charged with defaming the Valais section of the right-wing Swiss People's Party, acquitted of defamation (LINK) 1 December 2025
— In its verdict on Monday, the court found that the two men had merely expressed an opinion, which is protected by freedom of expression. Nor did the judge find them guilty of offences against honour or slander. A clue in a Valais paper, Le Nouvelliste, on November 18, 2023, was: "Swiss political party — racist, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-feminist, anti-ecological, anti-poor, nationalist". The answer: UDC (the French abbreviation for the Swiss People’s Party). The Valais section of the People's Party took exception to this and demanded, and received, an apology from Le Nouvelliste.
Bitcoin pulls back under $86k, stocks find support in Fed expectations (LINK) 1 December 2025
King hails playwright Sir Tom Stoppard as 'one of our greatest writers' and "deeply saddened" by the loss of "a dear friend": Sir Mick Jagger pays tribue to his "favourite playwright" (LINK) 30 November 2025
Taxpayer cost of Trump's golf obsession may be even worse than reported $71 million (LINK) 30 November 2025
— During former President Barack Obama's eight years in the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly attacked him for spending too much time playing golf. Trump, in 2016, claimed that if he won the presidential election and defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, he would be too busy helping the American people to play golf. But according to a 2020 fact-check from CNN, Trump spent a lot more time playing golf than Obama — 266 days playing golf by May 2020 compared to Obama playing 98 rounds by May 2012. Ten months into Trump's second presidency, HuffPost and the Daily Beast are reporting that his passion for golf is costing taxpayers a fortune. HuffPost's S.V. Date, in a late November article, reports, "Taxpayers have now shelled out nearly $71 million for President Donald Trump's golf hobby since he retook office in January, with his second-term total on pace to break $300 million, according to a HuffPost analysis.
D.C. National Guard shooting suspect spent "weeks on end" in isolation, struggled with mental health, 2024 emails say (LINK) 30 November 2025
2025 Oxford University Press word of the year named as "rage bait": "three-fold increase in usage" over the past year (LINK) 30 November 2025
— OED defines the noun as online content that's "deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media account."
Daily Kos: 29 times Fox News made us cringe in disgust this year (LINK) 30 November 2025
Housing crisis pushes young Americans into crypto gambles: study (LINK) 30 November 2025
A lost generation of news consumers? Survey shows how teenagers dislike the news media (LINK) 30 November 2025
New review highlights the pathway to ecological success: successful environmental restoration is dependent on bridging the gap between ecological science and understanding the social and economic forces that drive change (LINK) 29 November 2025
Toys R Us, America's former retail leader, closed 1000s of stores, only 5 left (LINK) 29 November 2025
Ludwig Minelli, who founded assisted suicide nonprofit Dignitas, dies at one of his own clinics at age 92, days before his birthday: was also the founder and general secretary of the Swiss Society for the European Convention on Human Rights (LINK) 29 November 2025
Captain Cook was cooked, but not eaten, says a remarkable new book about the navigator (LINK) 29 November 2025
Gold heads for fourth monthly gain; silver hits fresh record high (LINK) 28 November 2025
The billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing: one of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 billion in 2024 (LINK) 28 November 2025
— In the fall of 2020, Science of the Total Environment published a study claiming that jade amulets from traditional Chinese medicine could prevent COVID-19. The journal has now been expelled from the group due to the discovery of numerous irregular articles.
'Nature feeds us more than it floods us': North Carolina Asheville after-school program teaches kids to forage after Hurricane Helene (LINK) 27 November 2025
Catchup: Mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl may eat radiation (LINK) 25 November 2025
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