(2025-12-17). When Conscience Rewrote Australia: The Bondi Moment. moderndiplomacy.eu Moments of national trauma often reveal a country's deepest divisions. More seldom, they expose its moral essence. The Bondi terror attack did the latter. Amid chaos, fear, and gunfire, one man moved not away from danger but towards it. Ahmed al-Ahmed, a Syrian-born Australian father of four, wrestled a rifle from an attacker and, in …
(2025-12-17). BREAKING: FDA Refuses to Add "Black Box Warning" to mRNA Injections—Despite FDA Scientists Recommending It/By Nicolas Hulscher. voicesfromsyria.com 
Peer-reviewed evidence of irreversible heart damage and fatal cardiac arrest is dismissed by FDA leadership. Original Link Here: BREAKING: FDA Refuses to Add "Black Box Warning" to mRNA Injections—Despite FDA Scientists Recommending It — Global ResearchGlobal Research — Centre for Research on Globalization By Nicolas Hulscher Global Research, December 17, 2025 Focal Points A few days …
(2025-12-17). Trump imposes full travel ban on seven more countries, Palestinians. geo.tv 
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order on AI in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, December 11, 2025. — ReutersWhite House says expanded ban goes into effect January 1.Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Syria subject to travel ban.Partial…
(2025-12-17). Residents in Syria's Palmyra recall tense hours after attack. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) — Residents of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra are slowly resuming daily life after a deadly shooting on Saturday left US service members dead and triggered hours of heightened security and fear.
(2025-12-17). The military's dependence on our citizen soldiers is killing them. responsiblestatecraft.org Two U.S. National Guard soldiers died in an ambush in Syria this past weekend. | Combined with overuse of our military for non-essential missions, ones unnecessary to our core interests, the overreliance of part-time servicemembers continues to have disastrous effects. President Trump, Secretary Hegseth, and Congress have an opportunity to put a stop to the preventable deaths of our citizen soldiers.In 2004, in Iraq, in a matter of weeks, I lost three close comrades I served with back in the New York National Guard. In the following months more New York soldiers, men I served with, would die. In 2024, three U…
(2025-12-17). Iran summons Cyprus ambassador over interventionist stance. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) — Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Cypriot ambassador in Tehran to protest the interventionist position regarding Iran's territorial integrity.
(2025-12-17). Venezuela Condemns US Piracy Before UN as Killings Resume; US Debate Heats Up, and Trinidad Lends Airports to US Military Operations. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( The letter, presented by Venezuela's ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada, to Security Council President Samuel Z'bogar of Slovenia, concerns the Dec. 10, 2025, incident in international waters of the Caribbean wherein US forces targeted a private oil tanker engaged in legitimate trade while it transported Venezu…