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A Washington Post investigation published 28 Nov 2025 revealed that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth verbally ordered SEAL Team 6 to leave no survivors during a 2 Sept Caribbean boat strike, prompting both House and Senate Armed Services Committees within 48 hours to launch formal probes into the operation’s legality.
Following a 28-Nov-2025 Washington Post exposé, the Senate Armed Services Committee launched a bipartisan investigation into claims that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth verbally ordered U.S. forces to kill all 11 occupants of a suspected drug-running boat— including two shipwrecked survivors—during the first strike of Operation Southern Spear on 2 Sep 2025.
On 2 Dec 2025 Belgian federal police, acting on EPPO warrants, arrested former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, ex-EEAS secretary-general Stefano Sannino and a College of Europe manager over alleged rigging of a 2021-22 tender that handed the €650k EU Diplomatic Academy contract to the College of Europe.
On 28 Nov 2025, President Trump declared via Truth Social that he will issue a “full and complete” pardon to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández—convicted in U.S. court in 2024—while warning that future U.S. aid hinges on the conservative National Party candidate Tito Asfura winning Honduras’s 30 Nov election.
On 30 Nov 2025, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ukraine’s Rustem Umerov held a four-hour closed-door session in Hallandale Beach that pared back and re-negotiated the contentious U.S.-drafted peace blueprint, ahead of envoy Steve Witkoff’s scheduled Moscow talks.
On 28–29 Nov 2025 Ukrainian ‘Sea-Baby’ naval drones struck and disabled two sanctioned Russian shadow-fleet oil tankers inside Turkey’s exclusive economic zone, the first acknowledged Ukrainian attack on commercial carriers rather than ports or warships.
In a Thanksgiving video call on 28 Nov 2025, President Trump said U.S. forces will shift their anti-drug campaign from maritime strikes to land operations in and around Venezuela “very soon.”
On 28 Nov 2025, President Zelensky accepted the resignation of chief-of-staff Andriy Yermak hours after anti-corruption agents raided Yermak’s Kyiv residence, abruptly removing Ukraine’s lead U.S. peace negotiator amid a widening $100 million Energoatom kickback scandal.
Between 29–30 Nov 2025, officials moved from emergency rescues to debris removal and compensation schemes after monsoon floods and landslides killed more than 400 people across Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Washington on 24 Nov 2025 branded the nebulous Cartel de los Soles a Foreign Terrorist Organization and, within days, sailed the USS Gerald Ford with 15,000 troops to Venezuelan waters while President Trump warned airlines the country’s airspace was “closed.”
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