Semafor • Dec 12, 2025
UAE advances EU trade deal
The deal will build on the UAE’s more than 30 CEPAs, free-trade-style pacts that incorporate services and other forms of economic cooperation.
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Democracy Now • Dec 12, 2025
"Watched, Tracked & Targeted": Gaza Writer Mohammed Mhawish on Life Under Israeli Surveillance
Award-winning Palestinian reporter Mohammed Mhawish, who left Gaza last year, joins us to discuss his new piece for New York magazine about Israel’s surveillance practices. It describes how Palestinians throughout the genocide in Gaza have been watched, tracked and often killed by Israeli forces who have access to their most intimate details, including phone and text records, social relations, biometric data and more. This all-encompassing surveillance system is “reshaping how people speak, how they’re moving, how they’re even thinking,” says Mhawish. “It manufactured behavior for people, so they shrink their lives to reduce risk, they rehearse what version of themselves feels safest to present, and that creates an enormous psychological burden.” Mhawish also describes the terror of when his family’s house was bombed, killing two of his cousins and two neighbors in an attack he says was linked to Israeli surveillance of his reporting activities. “I was being watched and tracked,” he says.
Scheer Post • Dec 12, 2025
Venezuela Charges Washington With ‘Theft, Piracy’ After Seizure of Oil Tanker
The US had imposed sanctions on the vessel under claims it was involved in the Iranian oil trade.
Mother Jones • Dec 12, 2025
This Young Soccer Squad Has Never Faced a Rival Like Donald Trump
When I first encountered 21-year-old Dilan Pinzón back in April, he was sitting on the sidelines of a soccer field in Oakland, California, clad in cleats and a blue jersey, pondering his team’s fate. It was the third game of the season for Soccer Without Borders Academy, which hadn’t won a single match it played […]
Semafor • Dec 12, 2025
Ivory Coast seeks US help to fight jihadists
The country reportedly asked Washington to station spy planes in the country to help it fight jihadists who have recently gained territory across West Africa.
Semafor • Dec 12, 2025
US, Japan conduct joint military drills in boost for Tokyo
The drills mark a symbolic boost for Tokyo, which is locked in a tense feud with Beijing.
Semafor • Dec 12, 2025
Ukraine could cede land for peace deal
The concession could mark a major step towards reviving a flagging US-backed proposal.
Semafor • Dec 12, 2025
US escalates Venezuela campaign
Washington imposed sanctions on the family of President Nicolás Maduro and vowed to intercept more oil-carrying vessels that Venezuela’s economy relies on.
The Majority Report • Dec 12, 2025
"Trump Is Anti-War" Narrative Falls Apart Spectacularly
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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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Ignoring China’s Poverty Alleviation Success Is Costing Us All
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