For me probably the greatest advance in the history of the recorded image is the ability to watch footage like this literally anywhere I want on any device or size screen on absolutely any topic ever considered by anyone in human history for free anytime. I know it’s a lot. So I got no complaints. I’m glad I live now and not at anytime in the past or the future. This is great. This is perfect.
SunshinE BY Danny Boyle
Braveheart the shining secretagent
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Sunday, December 21st, 2025
Law and crimeNine people are killed and ten others are injured in a mass shooting when 12 gunmen open fire near a tavern in Bekkersdal, Gauteng, South Africa. (AFP via CBS News)
Saturday, December 20th, 2025
The United States Coast Guard intercepts and seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela after previously seizing another last week. (Reuters) (BBC) (The Washington Post)
The United States says it has carried out airstrikes on 70 targets at multiple locations against ISIS in Syria. (BBC News)
Seven elephants are killed and another is injured when a passenger train strikes a herd in the Hojai district of Assam, India. (DW) (Reuters)
A Pakistani court sentences former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to 17 years in prison after finding them guilty of corruption-related charges. (AP)
Iran executes a man convicted of spying for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad in Urmia. (AP) (Iran Human Rights)
A German engineer becomes the first person in a wheelchair and the first with paraplegia to travel to space on a sub-orbital trip conducted by Blue Origin. (DW)
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Saturday, December 20th, 2025
December 2025 Palmyra attack, Operation Hawkeye StrikeThe United States says it has carried out airstrikes on 70 targets at multiple locations against ISIS in Syria. (BBC News)
A court in Pakistan sentences former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to 17 years in prison after finding them guilty of corruption-related charges. (AP)
Friday, December 19th, 2025
t least six Palestinians are killed when an Israeli tank fires at a wedding hosted in a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
- Eight people are killed, including four attackers, and 15 others are injured in a suicide attack by unidentified militants on a military post in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP) (Amu Television)
Social media platform TikTok announces a deal to sell 80.1% of its United States-based assets to a consortium of companies, including Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX, and existing ByteDance investors, to avoid a ban in the US. (DW)
- Strong winds of 65 miles per hour cause major disruption in the Boston metropolitan area, leaving over 80,000 people without power, and causing delays, impacting more than 200 flights from Logan International Airport. (CBS News) (Boston 25 News)
International relations
- The European Union agrees to loan €90 billion (US$105 billion) to Ukraine from its internal budget after failing to use frozen Russian assets. (The Washington Post) (Reuters)
- The U.S. government suspends the Diversity Immigrant Visa scheme for green cards after the Brown University shooting suspect was revealed to be from Portugal. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces a nationwide gun buyback program, the largest since the aftermath of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, in response to the recent Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney. (AFP via France 24)
Three people are killed and five more injured in a mass stabbing near a subway station in Taiwan. The perpetrator, who also threw smoke bombs at the train station, dies during the chase with police. (Reuters)
Singapore announces that scammers will face mandatory caning of up to 24 strokes from December 30 under changes to the criminal law passed by parliament in November. (AP)
Protests and riots erupt across Bangladesh after the assassination of activist Osman Hadi by two members of the banned Awami League party. (Al Jazeera)
The U.S. Department of Justice releases a heavily redacted fraction of the Epstein files, violating federal law requesting their full release by the December 19 deadline. DOJ Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issues a statement of intent to continue violation by releasing remaining files over subsequent weeks. (AP) (Guardian)
A United States Army sergeant pleads not guilty to six counts of attempted murder, aggravated assault and domestic violence for a mass shooting in August at Fort Stewart in Georgia, United States, that injured five people. (MSN)
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Thursday, December 18th, 2025
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Armed conflicts and attacks
- Cambodia accuses Thailand of bombing Poipet on the border and denies the truce previously announced by United States president Donald Trump. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- Seven people, including stock car racer Greg Biffle and his family, are killed after Biffle’s Cessna Citation II jet crashes while landing at Statesville Regional Airport in Statesville, North Carolina, United States. (ABC News)
The United States approves a $11.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan, including medium-range ballistic missiles, drones, and howitzers, as the largest arms deal in the history of bilateral relations between the two countries. (DW)
The United Nations General Assembly elects former Iraqi president Barham Salih as the next High Commissioner for Refugees, succeeding Filippo Grandi, whose term ends December 31. (Reuters)
A 48-year-old suspect of the mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, is found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside of a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire. Authorities are investigating whether the murder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno Loureiro is connected. (NBC News)
Frédéric Péchier, an anesthesiologist who was found guilty of poisoning 30 patients and killing twelve with anesthetic infusion bags in Besançon, France, is sentenced to life in prison. (BBC News)
- Councilwoman Elena Rojas is assassinated and several others are injured, including at least four children, in a targeted mass shooting at a Christmas event in Chicama, Department of La Libertad, Peru. (BNO News)
- A Russian military court sentences a Belarusian national to 22 years in prison for terrorism after convicting him of planting explosives on two freight trains in Buryatia in 2023, causing major damage and rail disruptions. (Reuters)
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2025 Wednesday, December 17th, 2025
- The Brazilian Senate approves a bill that reduces penalties for certain crimes, including attempted coup, which could significantly shorten former president Jair Bolsonaro‘s 27-year prison sentence. The bill now heads to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for signature. (AP)
- The surviving gunman of the attack on Bondi Beach, Australia, is charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act. (BBC News)
- The United States Southern Command says the U.S. Navy attacked an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing at least four people. (AP)
International relations
- United States president Donald Trump expands the country’s existing travel ban by banning citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan, and Syria, as well as those holding passports issued by the Palestinian Authority, from entering the country. He also imposes partial restrictions on citizens from 15 other countries. (NPR)
- Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu approves a deal to export US$35 billion of natural gas from the Leviathan gas field to Egypt over the next 15 years. (AP)
Politics and elections
Russian president Vladimir Putin signs a law to redistribute ownerless homes on occupied territories to those who have lost homes during the conflict. (Euromaidan Press)
Brazil‘s Supreme Federal Court rules that Indigenous land rights constitute unamendable constitutional guarantees, thereby blocking congressional efforts to restrict the recognition of Indigenous territories and reinforcing existing protections despite pending legislative opposition. (Reuters)
In association football, Paris Saint-Germain win their first FIFA Intercontinental Cup after defeating Flamengo 2–1 on penalties, following a 1–1 draw after extra time, in the final in Al Rayyan, Qatar. (Reuters)
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