Issue 2026-01-01
Stories
- China’s “Justice Mission-2025” Encirclement Drills Trigger Global Rebuke and Taiwan’s 5-Year Defence Surge
- Saudi Airstrike Forces UAE Troop Exit, Splitting the Yemen Coalition
- Fourth Day of Nationwide Iranian Protests as Rial Crashes and Central Bank Chief Fired
- India Passes Japan to Claim 4th-Largest Economy at $4.18 Trillion
- Bulgaria Drops the Lev, Joins Eurozone as 21st Member
- China Enacts Three-Year 55 % Safeguard Tariff on Over-Quota Beef Imports
- Paris Unveils 2026 Under-15 Social-Media Blackout Bill
- Ocean Infinity Relaunches MH370 Deep-Sea Search with Upgraded AUV Fleet
- Apple Begins 2026 with a Sweeping iPhone Reset
At a Glance
- Between 29–31 Dec 2025 the PLA staged its widest live-fire drills to date around Taiwan, pushing rockets inside the 2...
- A Saudi coalition strike on Emirati-supplied weapons in Mukalla on 31 Dec 2025 prompted Yemen’s government to order—a...
- After the rial slid past 1.4 million per U.S. dollar this week, bazaar strikes snowballed into four straight days of...
- New Year’s-Eve government data (31 Dec 2025) put India’s nominal GDP at $4.18 trillion, nudging it above Japan and re...
- At midnight on 1 January 2026, Bulgaria will scrap the lev and begin using the euro after clearing EU convergence tes...
- Starting 1 Jan 2026, Beijing will levy an extra 55 % duty on any beef shipments that exceed newly assigned country qu...