Semafor • Dec 1, 2025
Floods in South and Southeast Asia kill 1000
More than 500 people are confirmed dead in Indonesia, with hundreds more killed in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
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Semafor • Dec 1, 2025
S. Africans lured to fight for Moscow in Ukraine
More than a dozen South Africans are believed to have already been lured with the promise of lucrative contracts.
Democracy Now • Dec 1, 2025
Trump Meddles in Honduran Election & Vows to Pardon Ex-President Jailed in U.S. for Drug Trafficking
President Trump has announced plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. In 2024, Hernández was convicted in New York of drug trafficking and weapons charges. “The evidence from the Southern District of New York was overwhelming,” says Dana Frank, professor of history emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a longtime observer of Honduran politics. Trump’s announcement came on Friday, and he also threatened to cut off funding if Hondurans did not elect his chosen conservative candidate as they went to the polls Sunday to pick a new president. “He’s almost threatening Honduras that if we don’t do what he is demanding … he will wreak vengeance against Honduras,” says Rodolfo Pastor, former secretary of the presidency under Xiomara Castro in Honduras.
Semafor • Dec 1, 2025
Timing of Guinea-Bissau coup raises key questions
Democratic institutions had been weakened at home — and in the region — in the years running up to this latest military takeover.
Semafor • Dec 1, 2025
France hosts Zelenskyy as peace talks gather pace
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s envoy is heading to Moscow for an intense week of negotiations.
Semafor • Nov 30, 2025
HK aims to quell public anger over deadly fire
The death toll in last week’s massive apartment building fire in Hong Kong rose to 146 on Sunday, as mourners paid respect to the victims and authorities sought to quell public anger.
Semafor • Nov 30, 2025
US, Ukraine officials meet ahead of critical week for peace talks
US diplomats met with Ukrainian officials in Florida on Sunday to advance peace talks, kicking off a big week for negotiations aimed at ending the nearly four-year war.
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Guerilla Fighters in West Papua Are Facing Extermination by Indonesia's High-Tech Forces
The West Papua National Liberation Army has resisted counterinsurgency in the Star Mountains for decades. Drop Site spoke with guerilla leader Lamek Taplo a week before he was killed.
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