Issue 2025-12-05
Stories
- Putin and Trump Envoy Witkoff Hold Five-Hour Kremlin Talks on Slimmed-Down Ukraine Peace Plan
- Asian Megaflood Toll Passes 1,500; Jakarta Opens Probe Into Deforestation Firms
- Congo & Rwanda Sign U.S.–Brokered “Washington Accords” in D.C.
- Trump Administration Moves to Cut 2031 CAFE Target to 34.5 MPG and End Credit-Trading
- Maduro Appeals to OPEC After Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace ‘Closed’
- IndiGo Grounds Hundreds of Flights, Seeks FDTL Waiver After Crew-Scheduling Collapse
- Meta & YouTube Start Removing Under-16 Users as Australia’s Social Media Ban Enters Final Week
- EU Opens Antitrust Investigation into Meta’s WhatsApp AI Gatekeeping (4 Dec 2025)
- Russia Blocks FaceTime Nationwide, Reveals Earlier Snapchat Ban
At a Glance
- On 2 Dec 2025, Vladimir Putin met U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff for roughly five hours in Moscow—the first face-to...
- The regional death count from last week’s floods and landslides climbed above 1,500 on 4 Dec 2025, prompting Indonesi...
- On 4 Dec 2025, Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame formally signed the U.S-mediated Washington Accords, commi...
- On 4 Dec 2025 the U.S. Transportation Department, at President Trump’s direction, issued a proposal to lower the 2031...
- Between 30 Nov and 1 Dec 2025, Nicolás Maduro sent an emergency letter to all OPEC states asking them to resist U.S....
- On 5 Dec 2025, IndiGo scrubbed more than 500 services in one day and asked India’s DGCA to relax new pilot-fatigue ru...