Semafor • Dec 24, 2025
Trump withdraws US ambassadors to Africa
Washington has removed top-level representatives in more than half the countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Semafor • Dec 24, 2025
US bolsters military presence in Caribbean
The deployment came as the UN Security Council met to discuss Washington’s campaign against Caracas.
Scheer Post • Dec 24, 2025
European Russophobia and Europe’s Rejection of Peace: A Two-Century Failure
By Jeffrey D. Sachs for Horizons Europe has repeatedly rejected peace with Russia at moments when a negotiated settlement was available, and those rejections have proven profoundly self-defeating. From the nineteenth century to the present, Russia’s security concerns have been treated not as legitimate interests to be negotiated within a broader European order, but as moral […]
Semafor • Dec 23, 2025
Chinese and Starlink satellites nearly collide in space
Low Earth orbit is getting increasingly crowded.
Semafor • Dec 23, 2025
Ecuadorian president's family banana business smuggled drugs, investigation finds
Balkan gangsters smuggled cocaine in the Noboa Corp.’s shipping containers, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’s investigation.
Scheer Post • Dec 23, 2025
‘Devastating’: Amnesty Rips Hegseth Memo Reversing Limits on Landmines
In a move decried by human rights organizations, the Trump administration has scrapped a Biden-era prohibition on the use of antipersonnel landmines, which killed thousands of noncombatants last year. The Washington Post reported on Friday that US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent a memo on December 2 reversing the policy, saying the use of such mines would provide the US military with a “force […]
Semafor • Dec 23, 2025
White House holds off on new China chip tariffs
The US suggested that future duties were on the table, creating leverage for Washington.
Scheer Post • Dec 23, 2025
Humanity Is Ending by Design’: Hospitals in Gaza Pushed Past the Point of Failure
By Joshua Scheer Drop Site News reports that Gaza’s health system is on the brink of total collapse, as Israel continues to restrict the entry of life-saving medical aid despite a ceasefire that mandated full humanitarian access. Drop Site spoke with Dr. Mimi Syed, a U.S.-based physician who has volunteered in Gaza multiple times and […]
Zeteo • Dec 23, 2025
Babies Are Freezing to Death in Gaza. Israeli Policy and the World’s Inaction Are to Blame
The world must stop treating the word “ceasefire” as a guarantee of safety when Gaza’s residents remain under fire, under siege, and under conditions that guarantee more suffering and heartbreak.
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Donald Trump’s Plan to Be King of the World
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An epic border: Finland’s poetic masterpiece, the Kalevala, has roots in 2 cultures and 2 countries
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The new era of Israeli expansionism and the war economy that fuels it
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NASA’s Artemis II plans to send a crew around the Moon to test equipment and lay the groundwork for a future landing
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How Human Rights Watch Shattered Yugoslavia
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Kidnapping a President: Leonardo Flores on Trump’s War Against Venezuela
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The Grammys Actually Acknowledged What’s Going on in the World
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Europe in Panic: Trump’s Power Play Shakes the World Order
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Ignoring China’s Poverty Alleviation Success Is Costing Us All
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