Issue 2025-12-20
Stories
- Trump Orders Naval Blockade of Sanctioned Venezuelan Oil Tankers, Declares Maduro Regime a Terror Group
- EU Summit Faces Dec 18 Vote on €210 B Reparations Loan Using Frozen Russian Assets
- UN Downgrades Gaza Famine After October Ceasefire, Warns Crisis Could Rebound by April 2026
- BOJ’s 19-Dec-2025 0.75% Liftoff Ends Japan’s Zero-Rate Era
- Nine Drug Giants Accept Trump’s ‘Most-Favored-Nation’ Pricing in Exchange for Tariff Relief
- Farmer-led Revolt Forces EU to Stall Mercosur Ratification Days Before Planned Signing
- Starlink 35956 Explodes in Low-Earth Orbit, Begins Uncontrolled Re-Entry
- Samsung Unveils Exynos 2600, First 2 nm Smartphone SoC
- JWST Spots Carbon-Helium ‘Space Lemon’ Orbiting a Pulsar
At a Glance
- On 17 Dec 2025, President Trump escalated U.S. pressure by directing the Navy to stop every U.S-sanctioned tanker ent...
- EU leaders convening in Brussels must decide whether to front Ukraine a zero-interest loan backed by the bloc’s €210...
- A 19 Dec 2025 IPC update removed Gaza’s formal famine designation following a two-month lull in fighting that opened...
- The Bank of Japan raised its overnight call rate by 25 bp to 0.75 % on 19 Dec 2025, its first move since January and...
- On 19 Dec 2025, the White House secured voluntary deals with nine additional pharmaceutical companies to peg U.S. Med...
- On 16-17 Dec 2025, tractor blockades and a last-minute Italian swing behind France stripped the Council of the qualif...