Issue 2025-11-14
Stories
- Pentagon Launches 'Operation Southern Spear' and Parks USS Gerald R. Ford off Venezuela
- EU Ministers Rally Behind €140 B Reparations Loan From Frozen Russian Reserves—Belgium Still Says “Not Yet”
- Congress Passes Stopgap Bill Ending 43-Day U.S. Government Shutdown
- U.S. Green-lights South Korea’s First Nuclear-Powered Submarine Program in Trade-Security Deal
- EU Finance Ministers OK Accelerated End of €150 Duty-Free Threshold for Chinese E-Commerce Parcels
- EU Opens DMA Probe Into Google’s Demotion of Sponsored News Content
- Solar storm pushes Blue Origin’s New Glenn Mars launch to Nov 13 after two scrubs
- OpenAI Launches GPT-5.1 With Adaptive Reasoning and Eight-Tone Personalization
- Global Carbon Budget 2025 Warns Record Fossil Emissions Will Burn Through 1.5 °C Allowance Within Five Years
At a Glance
- On 14 Nov 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth formally re-branded the two-month U.S. Caribbean strike campaign as “O...
- On 13 Nov 2025 EU finance chiefs and Commission president von der Leyen named a loan securitised by roughly €140 bill...
- Late on 13 Nov 2025, lawmakers sent — and President Trump immediately signed — a continuing-resolution/minibus packag...
- On 13–14 Nov 2025, Washington and Seoul issued a joint fact sheet that, for the first time, formally authorises South...
- On 13 Nov 2025 EU finance ministers reached political consensus to abolish the €150 customs-duty exemption on non-EU...
- On 13 Nov 2025 Brussels formally invoked the Digital Markets Act to investigate whether Google’s “site-reputation abu...