The Philippines immigration bureau confirmed Sajid Akram was traveling on an #India|n passport, and his son Naveed was traveling on an #Australia|n passport. CNN has reached out to India’s external affairs ministry for comment. www.cnn.com/2025/12/16/a...

Slovakia’s PM Fico called Ukraine a “black hole” and vowed to be the first to block its EU membership, citing corruption and claiming “no one knows” where €177.5 billion in aid has gone. Classic Kremlin talking points, straight from Putin’s doormat.

FIFA Peace Prize it is

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Once again, the ads in the print edition of @theonion.com are worth the price alone

Russia's loss of Mi-26 heavy transport helicopter is more significant as Moscow can't manufacture new models of the aircraft due to engine supply shortages which are made in Ukraine. united24media.com/latest-news/...

Nuzzi is (or perhaps was, keep reading) a celebrated US journalist who had a “digital affair” with Robert F Kennedy Jr while he was running for president, broke all sorts of journalistic rules while doing so, and was fired from her job at New York magazine. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Recent reports suggest the next cohort of US graduates are heading for one of the worst job markets in years — a force that is powering support for Mamdani in New York and is set to help Democrats elsewhere. www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

Challenges and shortcomings notwithstanding, #Syria is happier and stronger a year after the Assads. عيد_التحرير#

The real work begins now: delivering justice to victims, rebuilding shattered infrastructure and institutions, and confronting the hard task of maintaining sovereignty while reconstructing a nation, pens @hafizsaadriaz.bsky.social www.muslimnetwork.tv/one-year-aft...

The menu fuses Pakistani dishes with some of her British childhood favourites. The venture too has been praised by food critics for having an “exciting and surprising” menu that’s “an absolute must in Berlin for anyone who fancies an extraordinary taste experience”. hyphenonline.com/2025/12/04/s...

It helps when the US treats the international criminal court like a rogue actor. Mr Trump has even gone after the court’s judges and prosecutor for daring to scrutinise “our close ally” Israel over Gaza. Legal norms? Apparently, those are for enemies, not friends. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Talent par excellence! William Langewiesche would have profiled Thomas Salme. He even invented an airline, Aladdin Airlines, for his CV because he feared listing SAS might prompt a background check. No one checked. No one called. No one questioned. estonianworld.com/life/the-est...

While these new anti-ship missiles may not have attracted the same attention as the ICBMs unveiled at the parade, their introduction marks a significant advancement in China’s maritime strike capabilities. www.janes.com/osint-insigh...

“They are playing games, both with you and with us,” Merz said, seemingly referring to Washington’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner — the son-in-law of President Donald Trump — who spent five hours locked in talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Ancient carved faces shed new light on Neolithic society. On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life might have looked 11,000 years ago when the world's earliest communities began to emerge u.afp.com/ShFR

A Baltic diplomat said: “If all we do is continue being reactive, we just invite Russia to keep trying, keep hurting us. Especially when hybrid warfare is asymmetric — it costs them little, and us a lot. We need to try to be more inventive.” on.ft.com/3XXFJOS

Some 42 per cent of all recorded human rights abuses between 2000 and 2020 occurred on tuna vessels, according to research by the University of British Columbia and the NGO Ecotrust Canada, based on the world’s largest repository of fishery offences. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...

In the silent, pressurized depths of the Cold War, the contest between American and Soviet submarines was a battle of ghosts. It was a hidden war fought with sound waves and shadows, where the ultimate prize was invisibility. www.19fortyfive.com/2025/11/russ...

There has been no superpower more sophisticated, majestic and glamorous than the Roman empire. www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/advic...

The senators told reporters that they heard Mr. Rubio describe the document as one largely composed by the Russians, rather than as an American creation. “It is not our recommendation,” Mr. Rounds paraphrased Mr. Rubio as saying. “It is not our peace plan.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik

To escape from Epstien's ghost, Trump is benting on punishing Ukraine, Venezuela and the US marines. A sequel to Wag the Dog could not have done better.

Iran's elite proxy - Hezbollah - loses another top commander. After Taatabaei, there is no obvious successor. The terror outfit is effectively hallowed in terms of arsenal as well as leadership. Lebanese leadership and armed forces must step forward fast. www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/m...

Putin is doing more for Democrats than the DNC's leaders and strategists. It must not be hard to take down Trump, exposed layer after layer. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (left) meets German dictator Adolf Hitler (right) in Munich during the negotiations that led to the Munich Agreement, which ceded the Sudetenland to Germany. Less than a year later, Hitler’s occupation of the rest of […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Mamdani did not move an inch. Trump travelled a hundred miles. The unpeculiarly magnanimous president must have left JD Vance with a stomach bug. All because New York is their common ground today not politics.

It's better for the DNC to not take advice from Obama. He is an open book on how not to do things.

The nosedive is steep and fast! www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Now, Trump pushing surrender plan down Ukraine's throat www.ft.com/content/26be...

LOL, LMAO, ROFL THERE AREN'T CAPS BIG ENOUGH FOR HOW MUCH I'M LAUGHING AT THIS

Historian Andrew Lownie says he has seen “internal FBI correspondence” that contradicts the official story of Jeffrey Epstein’s death.

The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like or something entirely different www.newscientist.com/article/2504...

Rigsby had been on the road for some 30 years. A precocious North Carolina boy who enrolled at Harvard at 16, he had left the US soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, arriving in Kabul via Japan, China, a prior period in Afghanistan, and Ethiopia. www.semafor.com/article/11/1...

German officials have estimated that about 9,000 Nazis fled to the continent following World War II. About 5,000 went to Argentina; somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 headed to Brazil, including Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “angel of death.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Aspen has lost its small-town charm. It’s a bunch of influencers and celebrity wannabes. It’s a shame, we loved the town for so long.” www.ft.com/content/f9fe...

Inevitably, there are mistakes. Those mistakes are magnified by ideological and commercial opponents. “I suspect that if Gilligan’s report had been on Channel 4 News it would have gone unnoticed.” www.ft.com/content/7124...

Swiss bribe Trump their way ". . . the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts — a special Rolex desktop clock, a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar, and loads of flattery." www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...

🔥Ukrainian Defense Forces have hit the oil storage facility of Russia's Rosrezerv Kristal plant in Engels, which serves, among other things, to store jet fuel for Russian strategic aviation. 🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/defe...

Jumbo Sherman tanks turned out to be incredibly resistant even to the enemy's most powerful weapons. #OTD in 1944 a Jumbo from the 6th Armored Division took 6 hits from 88 mm guns without a single penetration. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

She has documented human rights abuses, as her predecessors did. She infuriated some of her allies by condemning the Hamas violence of Oct. 7, 2023, then caused a storm when she leaped onto social media to contest a boilerplate statement by Macron. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

International law began as a Western project — indeed, as the legal scholar Lawrence Douglas argues in his upcoming book, it has aided the Western imperial project. Its priorities have largely followed those of the Western powers.

With the help of Mossad and a group of Austrian intelligence officers, he was brought across Europe by car to the Austrian border. They escorted al-Halabi to Vienna, the storied city of spies. For a time, it was his refuge. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/w...

Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????

The An-124 and its Apache cargo then remained on the ground at the British airport for 8 days before the aircraft departed, not headed toward India but returning to its original point of departure at Mesa Gateway Airport, where they touched down on Nov 8. www.twz.com/air/ah-64-ap...

India is the biggest customer of Israel's defense industries, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Between 2020 and 2024, India accounted for about 34% of all Israel's defense exports. www.jpost.com/defense-and-...

Galactic objects are moving faster away from Earth than was anticipated. Something is overriding the force of gravity, that something being dark energy. Hence the idea that the universe is not just expanding but expanding at an increasing rate. gizmodo.com/new-research...

Since its legal troubles began, the company has struggled financially and changed hands a few times. It mulled pivoting away from spyware but says it has since refocused on cyber offensive capabilities and Pegasus remains the company’s key product. www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...

L'Orient-Le Jour reports that MBS carries with him a set of proposals to the Trump govt to deal with outstanding issues in the region, including the Palestinian question and insistence on the need to recognize the Palestinian state. www.lorientlejour.com/article/1484...

Lop Nur is just one of several remote bases where the PLAAF is developing and testing a next-generation fleet of combat fighters, bombers and attack drones. Close to where China has carried out nuclear tests, Lop Nur has what is thought to be the longest runway in the world.