(2025-12-30). UN team depicts Sudan's el-Fasher as a largely deserted crime scene. tehrantimes.com A United Nations team has described Sudan's el-Fasher as a "crime scene" after gaining access for the first time since its October takeover by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Al Jazeera reported Tuesday.
(2025-12-30). Archer in England squad for T20 World Cup. tribune.com.pk 
England named fast bowler Jofra Archer in their provisional squad for the Twenty20 World Cup on Tuesday despite a side strain that prematurely ended his Ashes campaign in Australia earlier this month. | The 15-member squad for the World Cup to be held in India and Sri Lanka from February 7 also includes Nottinghamshire seamer Josh Tongue, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said in a statement. | Beginning on January 22, England will play three one-day internationals and an equal number of T20s in Sri Lanka before heading into the World Cup. | "Sussex fast bowler Jofra Archer is included in the provision…
(2025-12-30). Sabalenka, Kyrgios see only positives from their match. tribune.com.pk 
Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios defended their controversial "Battle of the Sexes" match and said they failed to understand why an exhibition aimed at showcasing tennis drew so much negativity from the tennis community. | Former Wimbledon finalist Kyrgios defeated world number one Sabalenka 6-3 6-3 at a packed Coca-Cola Arena on Sunday despite several rule tweaks implemented by the organisers to level the playing field. | Critics had warned that the match, a nod to the 1973 original "Battle of the Sexes" in which women's trailblazer Billie Jean King beat then 55-year-old former Grand Slam winner Bobby Riggs,…
(2025-12-30). Bethell looks to cement place as England number three. tribune.com.pk 
Jacob Bethell was not supposed to be England's headline act in the fourth test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground but he looked like a player who belonged when the tourists made their nervous chase for victory against Australia. | Replacing the dropped Ollie Pope at number three, 22-year-old Bethell had appeared on a hiding to nothing in Melbourne on a difficult pitch in front of a record crowd of 94,000. | His debut Ashes innings on Boxing Day, the biggest occasion in Australia's cricket calendar, was no fairytale, producing one run from five balls and a caught-behind dismissal off Australia's fifth-choice seame…
(2025-12-30). The Gaza Genocide Was Not A One-Off. popularresistance.org The architecture of extermination: Why the Gaza genocide is premeditated and repeatable. Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel to launch a full-scale genocide in Gaza—a premeditated campaign to erase the Strip and exterminate a significant portion of its inhabitants. Let us pretend that nearly eighty years of relentless massacres were not a prelude to this moment, and that Israel had never before sought the physical destruction of the Palestinian people as outlined by the 1948 Genocide Convention.
(2025-12-30). Bearing witness to the gruesome end of Western liberalism. electronicintifada.net Corporate journalism skewered in Omar El Akkad's award-winning book on Gaza genocide.
(2025-12-30). MNREGA to VB-G RAM G: The Inside Story. ummid.com The change from MNREGA to VB-G RAM G shows the BJP agenda to quite some extent, away from Gandhi's ideology, undermines federalism, the concept of Rights and doesn't care for the marginalized!
(2025-12-30). India's Rice Export Boom Fuels a Looming Groundwater Crisis. moderndiplomacy.eu India's rise to become the world's largest rice producer and exporter has been hailed by politicians as a triumph of policy and farmer resilience. Exports have nearly doubled over the past decade, surpassing 20 million metric tons in the latest fiscal year and giving India control over roughly 40% of global rice trade. Yet behind …
(2025-12-30). Malaysia's Ex-PM Muhyiddin Steps Down as Opposition Leader, Opening Door for Islamist PAS. moderndiplomacy.eu Malaysia's political landscape has remained volatile since the 2018 election ended decades of single-coalition rule. Former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin emerged as a key figure after a 2020 political crisis elevated him to the premiership at the head of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition. PN later became the main opposition force after Anwar Ibrahim formed …
(2025-12-30). Imperial Disaster: An Assessment of Trump's Operation in the Caribbean. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad — Dec 29, 2025 | The maximum pressure operation launched by the Trump administration against Venezuela—centered in the Caribbean during the last quarter of 2025—is a strategic failure and a comprehensive defeat: diplomatically, militarily, legally, and symbolically. | What began as a multisectoral offensive to fracture the Venezuelan state and force a regime change in favor of its economic subordination has resulted in a crisis of legitimacy for Washington, a consolidation of a certain degree of regional and global resistance, and the exposure of criminal practices that threaten…
(2025-12-30). Smog chokes Punjab as millions fall ill in 2025. tribune.com.pk 
More than 20 million people across Punjab were affected by smog and hazardous air quality in 2025, turning the winter months into a prolonged public health crisis. | Lahore bore the brunt, with over 600,000 residents seeking medical treatment for illnesses directly linked to smog. Other major cities, including Faisalabad, Multan, Rawalpindi and Gujranwala, collectively reported more than 1.8 million cases, according to health authorities. | Children, the elderly, daily-wage labourers and people with pre-existing conditions were the most vulnerable. Hospitals and clinics saw a surge in respiratory illnesses, wi…
(2025-12-30). 'Kill line' reflects predicament of American Dream. ecns.cn A term borrowed from the gaming world — the "kill line" — has recently gone viral online to describe what many see as a harsh reality in the United States, sparking widespread debate about economic insecurity and the fragility of the so-called American Dream.
(2025-12-30). Gaza endures new Israeli strikes eighty-one days into 'ceasefire'. tehrantimes.com Eighty-one days after the Gaza "ceasefire," Israeli forces continue assaults, striking al-Maghazi Camp, Beit Lahia, and southern areas, detonating an armored vehicle, and demolishing homes in Gaza City.
(2025-12-30). Saudi Arabia calls national security a red line, urges UAE exit from Yemen. tribune.com.pk 
Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday that its national security was a red line and backed a call for United Arab Emirates forces to leave Yemen within 24 hours, shortly after a Saudi-led coalition carried out an airstrike on the southern Yemeni port of Mukalla. | The warning marked Riyadh's strongest language yet against Abu Dhabi, as the coalition said it struck what it described as foreign military support to UAE-backed southern separatists. Yemen's Saudi-backed presidential council head also set a deadline for Emirati forces to leave, urging the UAE to comply. | Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are both ma…
(2025-12-30). US Military Launches 30th Strike in Boat Bombing Campaign. news.antiwar.com US Southern Command announced on Monday that its forces bombed another alleged drug-running boat in the waters of Latin America, marking the 30th strike since the campaign began on September 2. SOUTHCOM said the boat was targeted in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and claimed, without providing any evidence, that it was "transiting along known narco-trafficking …
(2025-12-30). Armed clash between ISIS terrorists and security forces; MHP issues a new assessment on Syria; Drug and football betting investigations expand. uwidata.com Last week, at the top of Türkiye's agenda was large-scale operations against ISIS and an armed clash that broke out during an operation in the district of Yalova. Another important item in the agenda was statements by Feti Yƒ±ldƒ±z, Deputy Chair of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), regarding developments in Syria. The expanding investigations into …
(2025-12-30). PLA Eastern Theater Command dispatches bomber task forces to conduct far-seas combat readiness patrols to the east of Taiwan Island. ecns.cn The PLA Eastern Theater Command on Monday dispatched bomber task forces to conduct far-seas combat readiness patrols to the east of the Taiwan Island, focusing on subjects of long-distance raid and joint precision strike, said Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesperson of the PLA Eastern Theater Command.
(2025-12-30). Consumption top driver in Five-Year Plan. ecns.cn While fiscal and monetary policies are essential to expand demand, Su said expanding high-quality demand depends on developing new quality productive forces through product innovation and process innovation.
(2025-12-30). Saudi-led coalition targets arms shipments from UAE in Yemen. newarab.com 
The coalition had warned it would back Yemen's government in any military confrontation with separatist forces and has urged them to withdraw "peacefully" from In recent weeks the UAE-backed Southern…
(2025-12-30). Yemeni Resistance Leader Vows To Target Israeli Presence In Somalia. popularresistance.org The leader of Yemen's Ansarallah resistance movement, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, warned in a speech on 28 December that any potential Israeli presence in Somaliland will be considered a "military target" for the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF). | The speech came as several African, Arab, and Muslim states condemned Israel's decision last week to recognize the sovereignty of the separatist Republic of Somaliland, which Somalia views as one of its federal states. | Israel's recognition of Somaliland is "a hostile stance targeting Somalia and its African surroundings, as well as Yemen and the Red Sea and the countries on its…
(2025-12-30). PLA Eastern Theater Command conducts joint drills around Taiwan. ecns.cn Multiple forces of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) started drills code-named "Justice Mission 2025" around Taiwan Island Monday, said Shi Yi, spokesperson for the theater command.
(2025-12-30). China imposes sanctions on dozens of US weapons manufactures over arms sales to Taiwan. peoplesdispatch.org Ignoring repeated Chinese warnings and their own expressed commitments to the one-China policy, successive US administrations have been selling arms to Taiwan and supporting separatist forces there.
(2025-12-30). Saudi Foreign Ministry: We reiterate importance of UAE's response to Yemen's request to withdraw its forces within 24 hours. english.almanar.com.lb
(2025-12-30). First batch of China's emergency humanitarian aid arrives in Cambodia. ecns.cn
(2025-12-30). Pierre Vesperini: Government of the Past. newleftreview.org If the past is always that of a certain present, what are the conditions for avoiding the subordination of public history to self-interested origin stories, or the consignment of past infamies to oblivion? Who belongs in public memory, and who not? Reflections on the political use and abuse of popular historiography.
(2025-12-30). Saudi-led coalition targets Mukalla dock in Yemen over alleged STC arms delivery. tribune.com.pk 
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen launched a limited air strike targeting what it called foreign military support at Mukalla port, days after it warned the main southern separatist group against making military moves in the eastern province of Hadramout. | An offensive by Yemen's southern separatists earlier this month pitted the United Arab Emirates-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) against Saudi-supported Yemeni government troops, bringing the two nations closer than they have ever been to an all-out conflict. Yemen has been mired in a civil war since 2014. | A coalition spokesperson said two ships a…
(2025-12-30). Maulana Fazlur Rehman: An Indian Supporter In Pakistan. ummid.com Pakistani opposition leader and Chief of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), Maulana Fazlur Rehman delivered a pointed critique of Pakistan's military leadership, specifically targeting Army chief Asim Munir and the country's policy toward Afghanistan.
(2025-12-30). PLA Eastern Theater Command conducts drills on regional patrol, aerial confrontation, and information support in airspace to the southwest of Taiwan Island. ecns.cn The PLA Eastern Theater Command on Monday employed its fighters, airborne early warning aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles to conduct drills on regional patrol, aerial confrontation, and information support in the airspace to the southwest of the Taiwan Island. The drills intend to test the capabilities of multi-type aircraft coordination and seizing air superiority.
(2025-12-30). Prehistoric sites identified in Esfarayen. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN ⚪ Targeted paleolithic studies, supported by North Khorasan Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department, began in the Esfarayen and Safiabad plains, during which valuable evidence of the presence of hunter-gatherer societies in this region was identified for the first time.
(2025-12-30). Trump warns Iran of new US strike if it rebuilds nuclear or missile programmes. tribune.com.pk 
US President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States could support another major strike on Iran were it to resume rebuilding its ballistic missile or nuclear weapons programs and warned Hamas of severe consequences if it does not disarm. | Speaking beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following a meeting at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Trump suggested Tehran may be working to restore its weapons programs after a massive US strike in June. | "I've been reading that they're building up weapons and other things, and if they are, they're not using the sites we obliterated, but possibly diffe…
(2025-12-30). October 7, 2023: Is Gaza-Israel Fighting "A False Flag" ? They Let It Happen? Their Objective Is "to Wipe Gaza Off the Map" ? globalresearch.ca "Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy". Benjamin Netanyahu…
(2025-12-30). Khaleda Zia, first woman PM of Bangladesh, passes away at 80 after prolonged illness. ptcnews.tv PTC News Desk: Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh's first female Prime Minister, passed away on Tuesday following a long period of illness, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) announced. She was 80 years old. | According to her doctors, she had been battling several age-related health conditions, including advanced liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, and heart and chest complications. Zia had been receiving treatment at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka since November 23 and was put on ventilator support on December 11. Only two days earlier, her personal physician had stated that her condition was "extremely critical." | In…
(2025-12-30). Chile's Failure To Bury Neoliberalism Led To Pinochetista President. popularresistance.org Stunning, though expected, on December 14, a majority of Chileans (58 per cent to 41 per cent) elected far-right Republican Party candidate Jose Antonio Kast as president for the 2026-30 term, defeating the Communist candidate Jeannette Jara in the second round. | A strong admirer of the Pinochet dictatorship, Kast is also an open supporter of Argentina's Javier Milei and Donald Trump, and maintains close links to the Trump-affiliated Heritage Foundation. His victory presents a significant opportunity for US imperialism.
(2025-12-30). South Pars refineries produce over 174m barrels of condensate in 9 months. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN — Gas processing plants at South Pars produced more than 174 million barrels of gas condensate in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-December 21), reinforcing feedstock supplies for downstream facilities and supporting energy security, the head of the South Pars Gas Complex (SPGC) said.
(2025-12-30). IRCS, UNICEF boost ties to provide psychosocial support for children. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN — The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have enhanced cooperation to provide psychosocial support for children during emergencies.
(2025-12-30). Trump-Netanyahu meet on Gaza; UAE, Saudi clash in Yemen. newarab.com 
A meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President According to a report in Axios, Trump and his aides raised issues of settler violence against Palestinians, the financial instabil…
(2025-12-30). Christmas 2025: Widespread violence, intimidation against Christians in India. ummid.com Reports of widespread violence and intimidation against Christians are being reported from different parts of India on the eve and day of Christmas Thursday December 25, 2025.
(2025-12-30). More women, same inequalities: How symbolic violence quietly persists in Indonesian diplomacy. |
(2025-12-29). "No one in Gaza slept" last night after storm surge flooding. thecanary.co The people of Gaza faced another long and freezing night last night, Sunday 28 December, after a storm surge added seawater to heavy rains. Local man Tamer Nahed described the horrific reality facing 1.8 million Palestinians who have survived Israel's genocide so far: This is, quite literally, the worst night we've lived through maybe in […] | By
(2025-12-29). Italy Meloni Gov Attacks Dockers Unions For Action On Palestine. indybay.org The Italian Meloni government is retaliating against the USB union for taking action against the genocide in Gaza…
(2025-12-29). Iran: Narges Mohammadi, several other human rights defenders arbitrarily arrested in massive crackdown. fidh.org More than 50 people were arrested, including five women human rights defenders, while they were taking part in a memorial ceremony honouring a recently deceased fellow human rights defender. The Observatory (FIDH-OMCT) and the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) strongly condemn these new arrests and call on the Iranian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all those arbitrarily detained, including human rights defenders.
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(2025-12-29). Tents flooded by heavy rains in Gaza amid calls for Israel to let in aid. aljazeera.com Heavy winter rains and strong winds have brought new dangers to displaced Palestinians in a Gaza devastated by Israel.
(2025-12-29). Russia's Lavrov Accuses Ukraine of Firing 91 Drones at Putin's Residence. news.antiwar.com Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday that Ukrainian forces fired 91 kamikaze drones at President Vladimir Putin's residence in Russia's Novgorod region, and warned the attack would change Moscow's negotiating position. For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denied that his forces launched the attack. Lavrov said that Russian air defenses intercepted all …
(2025-12-29). Understanding Western Praxis. dissidentvoice.org 
A recent book offers valuable lessons on Western crimes and their global impacts. We are living in a period of intense global transformation. The transition to a multipolar world has brought historical and contemporary tensions to the surface, revealing patterns of intervention and manipulation that have shaped entire regions. Understanding how the West has historically …
(2025-12-29). South Korea Prosecutor Accuses Ex—First Lady of Bribery, Power Abuse. moderndiplomacy.eu South Korea's special prosecutor has concluded a year-long investigation alleging that Kim Keon Hee, the wife of former President Yoon Suk Yeol, accepted bribes and interfered in state affairs while in office. Prosecutors say Kim used her position as first lady to receive money and luxury items and to influence personnel appointments. Kim is currently …
(2025-12-29). Hunger strike supporters hit Labour HQ. thecanary.co 
According to the media distributor, the Aftershock, a group calling itself 'Justice for the Hunger Strikers' has targeted Labour's HQ in London: View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Aftershock (@the_aftershock_) Justice The Aftershock provided the following update on the health of the hunger strikers, whose plight remains ignored by […] | By
(2025-12-29). Six-month-old baby hospitalised in Israeli settler attack. thecanary.co Israeli colonial settlers in the occupied West Bank have violently attacked the Al-Daghamin family, for the second time, near as-Samu, South of Hebron. This is the second violent attack on the Al-Daghamin family in less than two months. The attackers are settlers from Susya, 500 metres from where they live. Settler violence shows no regard […] | By
(2025-12-29). Syrian Alawites Begin Mass Protests Against Government Violence. popularresistance.org Syrian citizens of the Alawite minority sect took to the streets on 28 December to protest against government violence and sectarian persecution, in line with a call made by the community's religious leader a day earlier. | Members of the minority sect protested in the Alawite neighborhoods of the central governorate of Homs, and in several towns and cities on the country's coast, including Tartous, Jableh, and Latakia. | Protests also erupted in Hama governorate, including in the city of Masyaf. | Alawite Syrians held up banners reading "Federalism is the solution" and "the blood of Alawites is not cheap," among…