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Zelensky moves towards demilitarised zones in latest peace plan for Ukraine (LINK) 24 December 2025
European leaders condemn US visa bans as row over 'censorship' escalates: Washington accused of 'coercion and intimidation' after five leading figures behind digital safety law campaign targeted (LINK) 24 December 2025
UK social media campaigners among five denied US visas (LINK) 24 December 2025
Trump urged to release remaining 700,000 Epstein files (LINK) 24 December 2025
WFP scaling up assistance to people displaced by violence in eastern DRC as resources risk running out (LINK) 23 December 2025
You cannot annex other countries, Danish and Greenlandic leaders tell Trump (LINK) 22 December 2025
— On Monday Trump reiterated that the US needed Greenland for "national security, not for minerals", adding that there were Russian and Chinese ships "all over the place" and newly appointed Ambassador Landry would "lead the charge".
UK police arrest Greta Thunberg under Terrorism Act during a pro-Palestinian protest (LINK) 23 December 2025
China to impose up to 42.7% provisional tariffs on EU dairy products (LINK) 22 December 2025
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Security Council remains divided over Iran nuclear programme, sanctions stay in place (LINK) 23 December 2025
'Gunboat diplomacy on steroids': US signs security deals across Latin America; Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro warns Trump administration may 'destabilise the entire region' amid rising tensions (LINK) 23 December 2025
Newly released Epstein files spotlight Trump's past jet trips with Maxwell: Prosecutor's email claims Trump flew on Epstein's jet eight times in the 1990s, some with Ghislaine Maxwell on board, and "many more times than previously has been reported" (LINK) 23 December 2025
Trump announces plans for new 'Trump-class' Navy 'battleship', USS Defiant, as part of a 'Golden Fleet': "the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built" (LINK) 22 December 2025
Trump on seized Venezuelan oil: "We're gonna keep it" (LINK) 22 December 2025
Epstein's alleged victims accuse DOJ of legal violations over state of files released (LINK) 22 December 2025
— "The public received a fraction of the files, and what we received was riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation," a group of 19 women, including two Jane Does, said in a statement released on Monday. "At the same time, numerous victim identities were left unredacted, causing real and immediate harm."
Trump complains Epstein files are damaging people who 'innocently met' him (LINK) 22 December 2025
Daily Beast: Trump, 79, delivers deranged threat to TV networks in Yuletide meltdown: the president spent the first few minutes of Christmas Eve saying a popular TV host should be "put to sleep, NOW" (LINK) 24 December 2025
Consumer confidence drops in December to lowest level since U.S. tariffs rolled out in April (LINK) 23 December 2025
Gold and silver prices surge to new record highs: on track for the strongest year since 1979 (LINK) 23 December 2025
Email from 'A' at British royal family's residence asked Ghislaine Maxwell for 'inappropriate friends' (LINK) 23 December 2025
U.S. House Democrat sues the Trump administration over move to rename the Kennedy Center: Rep. Joyce Beatty, an ex-officio member of the center's board, argued renaming the center would require an act of Congress (LINK) 22 December 2025
UNEP: In the run-up to the first session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution (ISP-CWP P1), the ISP-CWP Secretariat, in collaboration with the Geneva Environment Network, is organizing a series of events to prepare governments, non-government stakeholders and other interested parties for the session, to be held from 2 February to 6 February 2026 at CICG (LINK) 11 November 2025
— Established on 20 June 2025 under the mandate of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) resolution 5/8, the Panel addresses one of the most critical but under-supported pillars of the global environmental agenda: pollution.
Davos 2026 theme 'A Spirit of Dialogue': 19–23 January 2026 (LINK) 29 October 2025
— Discussions are centred around five key global challenges: cooperation in a contested world, unlocking new sources of growth, investing in people, deploying innovation responsibly, and building prosperity within planetary boundaries.