Issue 2025-12-18
Stories
- Trump Orders Total Naval Blockade of Venezuelan Oil Exports
- Belgium Holds the Line on €210 B Russian-Asset Plan for Ukraine
- Trump Doubles U.S. Travel Ban, Targeting 20 More Nations and Palestinian Documents
- Hainan FTP Activates Island-Wide Special Customs Regime, Raising Zero-Tariff Goods to 74%
- Amazon Courts OpenAI With $10 B+ Cash-for-Compute Pact
- U.S. USTR Threatens Tariffs on European Tech Champions After EU’s €140 M Fine on X
- EU Scales Back 2035 Auto Mandate to 90% CO₂ Cut, Re-allowing Hybrids
- ShinyHunters Extorts Pornhub After 94 GB Analytics Leak of 200 M Premium Records
- Google Deploys Gemini 3 Flash as Free Default Model Across Search and Gemini App
At a Glance
- On 17 Dec 2025 President Trump directed U.S. naval forces to blockade every sanctioned tanker entering or leaving Ven...
- At the 18 Dec 2025 Brussels summit, EU leaders failed to secure unanimous backing for a loan to Kyiv that would be co...
- On 16 Dec 2025 President Trump signed a proclamation that, effective 1 Jan 2026, slaps full entry bans on five additi...
- On 18 Dec 2025, Beijing transitioned the entire 30,000-km² island of Hainan into a special customs supervision zone,...
- Amazon entered fluid negotiations to inject over $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the startup shifting part of...
- On 16 Dec 2025 Washington publicly warned it will trigger Section 301 remedies—tariffs or service restrictions—agains...