Issue 2025-12-12
Stories
- Ukraine Submits 20-Point Counter-Proposal after US Demands Donetsk ‘Free Economic Zone’
- Zelensky Opens Door to Donbas Referendum as Trump Sets Christmas Clock on Peace Deal
- US–Japan Fly B-52s and Six Fighters Over Sea of Japan After Sino-Russian Bomber Patrol
- Fed Cuts Rates to 3.5-3.75% Amid Biggest Internal Split Since 2019
- Mexico Approves Up-to-50% Tariffs on Non-FTA Asian Imports; China Protests
- Paramount’s $108 B All-Cash Hostile Tender Upends Netflix–Warner Bros Deal
- Barnham, UK Hearth Evidence Pushes Controlled Fire-Making to 400,000 Years Ago
- Reddit Complies, Then Sues: High Court Clash Over Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban
- NASA Loses Contact With 11-Year-Old MAVEN Mars Orbiter After Dec 6 Occultation
At a Glance
- On 11 Dec 2025 Zelenskyy publicly disclosed that Washington’s latest draft peace plan requires a unilateral Ukrainian...
- On 12 Dec 2025 President Volodymyr Zelensky said any land-for-peace deal with Moscow could go to a national vote, mom...
- On 10 Dec 2025, two US B-52 strategic bombers, escorted by three Japanese F-35s and three F-15s, conducted the first...
- On 11 Dec 2025 the FOMC trimmed its policy range by 25 bp for a third straight meeting but, in an unusually fractious...
- Within a day of Mexico’s Senate green-lighting steep new duties on 1,400+ goods from countries without trade pacts, B...
- On 8 Dec 2025 Paramount Skydance bypassed Warner Bros. Discovery’s board and offered shareholders $30 per share in ca...