The proclamation issued by the US president cites war and weak governance as justification for the ban, without offering evidence of specific security threats from the nations listed. ft.trib.al/jQnkQhr

Judge sentences Harvard Medical School morgue manager for stealing organs and various body parts for sale to others.

Gavin Newsom has made it easier for Americans to remember who the president’s “criminal cronies” are.

Israeli authorities are engaged in multiple major efforts to ensure there will be no Palestinian state in the future.

The victim, fourth-grader Kobiljon Aliyev, was killed Tuesday morning at Uspenskaya Secondary School in the affluent Moscow region suburb of Gorki-2.

⚡️Russian KAB bomb attack hits apartment buildings in Zaporizhzhia, injuring at least 26

President Donald Trump has quietly tacked on another $100 million to the estimated cost of his Mar-a-Lago-style White House ballroom.

The group of men, who were all members of a Marxist discussion club, were arrested in the Bashkortostan capital of Ufa in March 2022.

Advocacy group urges sanctions on Israel after Canadian delegation, including six lawmakers, turned back to Jordan.

"Since Judge Dugan’s arrest, protesters have frequently gathered in downtown Milwaukee to show their support for her, including during jury selection last week. Demonstrations are expected to continue in downtown Milwaukee throughout the trial..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

“A harsh sentence for an innocent man”: Russia upholds sentence of election rights advocate Grigory Melkonyants In May 2025, Melkonyants was sentenced to five years in prison; his defense appealed, but the verdict stood.

A prosecutor told jurors Monday that a Wisconsin judge said she would take the heat for directing an immigrant to go through a private door while federal agents were there to find and arrest him. https://to.pbs.org/499flrP

Desperate Gaza families already displaced by Israel’s war face deadly collapses and freezing conditions as storm hits.

Israel approves 19 new West Bank settlements in major annexation push https://aje.io/7xi4oe

Kim Jong Un participates in latest public event to honour North Korean troops who served with Russian forces.

⚡️At least 3 killed, 35 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day. Russian missile and drone strikes on energy infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv, Odesa, and Mykolaiv oblasts have disrupted electricity supplies, Ukraine's Energy Ministry said.

School in occupied Donetsk unveils monument to son of CIA deputy director who fought for Russia in Ukraine Russian state media highlighted the event, claiming that Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff had been tasked with delivering the deceased's medal to the United States.

Russian soldiers who refuse to take part in assaults are being held in a basement at a resort in occupied Donetsk Region, Astra reports Up to 100 people were held in the makeshift prison, only 300m from a resort that still receives tourists.

A new lawsuit alleges that federal agents repeatedly blasted an apartment complex with tear gas—allegedly to “put on a show” for right-wing social media figures.

The new security doctrine calls on the US to 'cultivate resistance' within Europe.

"Among the crowd was a 17-year-old high school student from Astoria who attended P.S. 166. 'Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped,' he said. 'I used to go to 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country'...” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...

Israel stepping up ‘creeping annexation’ of West Bank, Palestinian PM says on.ft.com/44Ohmab

BREAKING: At least 373 Palestinians have been killed and 970 wounded since the start of the ceasefire in October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ro90fr

At least 86 people have been killed in strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats that experts call illegal killings.

Qatar and Egypt call for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops and deployment of an international military force.

BREAKING: At least seven Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza City and northern areas as Israel continues attacks across the so-called yellow line truce demarcation. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p5c13r

It took dozens of special agents the best part of a decade to bring Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine. Then, in a single social media post last week, Donald Trump set the former Honduran president free. on.ft.com/4oxBJ2v

The U.S. Treasury Department has extended authorization for Lukoil-branded gas stations outside Russia to continue operating, suspending some sanctions on the Russian energy giant.

Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in helping drug traffickers move hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump. https://to.pbs.org/3MyxXbM

Mogherini is reported to be among three in custody for suspected fraud involving an EU-funded training programme.

in return for security guarantees from the United States, the UK, France, China and Russia. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Leveling a second strike on the survivors of an initial attack on an alleged drug boat would have been a crime, legal experts say. https://to.pbs.org/48dX0cQ

ECB refuses to provide backstop for €140bn Ukraine loan on.ft.com/4q2Ksev

Zara clothes reappear in Russia despite Inditex’s exit on.ft.com/4pwaCXb

“We have killed more than 80 people in these little boats already,” Kimmel said.

“If this happened as described in the Post report, it was, at best, a war crime under federal law."

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read stories was about planned bipartisan action on US defence secretary Pete Hegseth’s alleged order to leave no survivors on a suspected drug smuggling vessel in the Caribbean in September on.ft.com/4omlSUp

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Suddenly, the applause he gave on that red-carpeted airport tarmac makes a lot more sense. 🤡

Pope Leo XIV told reporters on Sunday that a two-state resolution is the ‘only solution’ for Israel-Palestine, reiterating the Vatican’s position. The Pope made the comments on a flight to Lebanon for the last leg of his first overseas trip as Catholic leader.

The moment an Israeli missile hit a tent in Gaza was caught on camera when a Palestinian girl filmed herself showing her hair clips.

Children as young as eight have been pushed to work for their families’ survival, losing their education and childhood.

Israel killed 13 people, including two children, in Syria on Friday after locals resisted an incursion by its army.

David Gentile, who scammed thousands of “hardworking, everyday people,” had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence.

Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker on.ft.com/440b1s5

Rodynske in Donetsk region today looks like a post-apocalyptic world.

Russian drone and missile attacks in and around the Ukraine’s capital killed at least three people early Saturday, officials said, as the country’s representatives traveled to the U.S. to work on a renewed push to end the war. https://to.pbs.org/3M6advC

Israeli army carried out attacks east of Rafah city, demolitions east of Khan Younis.