Sunday, December 28th, 2025
Chilean state-owned mining company Codelco and private miner SQM create a joint venture to develop lithium in the Atacama salt flat until 2060, with the Chilean state set to receive the majority of operating margins. (AFP via Barron’s)
Denis Kapustin, leader of the Ukraine-aligned white-nationalist Russian Volunteer Corps, is killed in a Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. (The Kyiv Independent)
Citizens of the Central African Republic vote to elect a president and 140 members of the National Assembly. The incumbent Faustin-Archange Touadéra seeks a third term in office. (Reuters)
The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal sentences a former Ba’athist lieutenant to death for the massacre of Barzanis during the Anfal campaign against Kurds in the 1980s. (The New Region)
Citizens of Guinea vote for a president as incumbent Mamady Doumbouya seeks to be elected four years after leading a coup. (Reuters)
Citizens of Myanmar vote in the first phase to elect the nation’s legislature, held under the supervision of a military junta amidst a civil war. (AP)
Citizens of Kosovo vote for the second time in a year to elect the members of the Kuvendi. (AP via ABC News)
Saturday, December 27th, 2025
Two people are killed and 32 are injured during a Russian missile and drone strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. Damage to critical infrastructure leaves 40% of Kyiv’s residential areas and surrounding districts without heating. (BBC News)
The Rapid Support Forces kill over 200 civilians in ethnically motivated attacks targeting non-Arabs in West Darfur and during advances in North Darfur, according to the Sudan Doctors Union. (The Express Tribune)
Niger’s Government declares a nationwide mobilization that authorizes the compulsory call-up of citizens and the requisition of 2025 and services to support operations against jihadist insurgent groups. (AFP via France 24)
Cambodia and Thailand sign a new ceasefire agreement, calling for a pause in military movements and airspace encroachment for military purposes. (AP)
China issues sanctions on 20 United States defense-related companies and ten executives for providing weapons to Taiwan last week. (AP)
The National People’s Congress of China passes a revised trade law that will expand the government’s authority to counter trade restrictions, regulate exports of strategic goods, and update provisions on digital, green, and intellectual-property trade from March 1, 2026. (Reuters)
Fifteen people are killed and 19 more injured as a bus plunges in to a ravine while driving on the Inter-American Highway in Sololá Department, Guatemala. (Al Jazeera)
An accident involving two cars after an improper overtaking kills eleven people on the BR-101 highway near Mucuri, Bahia, Brazil. (UOL)
At least nine people are killed and eight others are injured when a bus carrying 19 charity workers overturns on a mountain in Phinh Ho, Lào Cai province, Vietnam. (Reuters)
A Mw 7.0 earthquake, rated intensity four on the Central Weather Administration seismic intensity scale, strikes 32 km (20 mi) off the coast of Yilan, Taiwan, causing a temporary power outage for over 3,000 households. (CNN)
A coach for Valencia CF Femenino‘s reserve football team and three of his four children are killed after a boat carrying eleven people sinks near Padar, Indonesia. (AP)
The Iranian justice ministry seizes a foreign-flagged oil tanker carrying 25,000 barrels traveling through the Strait of Hormuz and detains its sixteen crew members on allegations of carrying illegal items. (AP)
A joint operation between the Italian state police and the financial police results in the arrest of nine people for allegedly raising about US$8.2 million through charities and diverting most of the funds to Hamas following the 2023 attack on Israel. (UPI)
Citizens of the Ivory Coast vote for the 255 members of the National Assembly despite the opposition Democratic Party boycotting due to alleged election fraud by the ruling RHDP party. (DW)
The Italian Parliament approves a reform that reduces the powers of the Court of Audit over public spending, caps financial penalties for negligent administrators at 30 percent of losses or two years of salary, and introduces automatic approval if the court does not respond within 30 days. (Reuters)
Friday, December 26th, 2025
The Takaichi Cabinet of Japan approves a ¥122.3 trillion (US$785 billion) budget for the next fiscal year, the largest national budget in Japan’s history, while reducing the debt-dependence ratio to 24.2 percent, supported by projected tax revenues of a record ¥83.7 trillion ($535 billion). (Reuters)
Fifteen people are injured in a mass stabbing and liquid attack at a factory in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The perpetrator is arrested. (CBS News)
Israel becomes the first country to recognize Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state. Somaliland also officially recognises Israel. (Reuters)
Israel recognises the state of Somaliland. (Reuters)
Two Israeli civilians are killed and another two are injured, including a child, in a vehicle ramming and stabbing attack by a Palestinian man in Beit She’an and Afula, Israel. The perpetrator is shot by police and hospitalized. (DW)
Eight people are killed and 18 more are injured in an explosion caused by Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah at an Alawite mosque in Homs, Syria. (France 24)
Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah claim responsibility for the attack via a statement on Telegram. (France 24)
Two soldiers are killed and another is critically wounded in a drone strike against a military base in Tine, Wadi Fira, Chad. The perpetrators are unknown. (Reuters)
Two people are killed and 26 others are injured in a 50-vehicle collision on the Kan-etsu Expressway in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. (The Independent)
The Malaysian Federal Court sentences former prime minister Najib Razak to 15 years in prison and a RM13.5 billion (US$3.3 billion) fine for abuse of power and money laundering. (AP)
The Brazilian Supreme Federal Court orders the preventive detention of former federal highway police chief Silvinei Vasques after he was captured in Paraguay while attempting to flee Brazil despite electronic tagging, following his conviction for involvement in the attempted coup. (Reuters)
Christmas 2025
Turkish authorities seize weapons and documents and arrest 115 suspects in Istanbul, connected with Islamic State-planned attacks on non-Muslims at Christmas and New Year’s festivities across the country. (BBC News)
United States president Donald Trump orders strikes on the Islamic State in northwestern Nigeria. (CBS News)
Three people are killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes targeting vehicles in southern Lebanon, including a member of the Iranian Quds Force. (Reuters)
The Polish Air Force intercepts and escorts a Russian aerial reconnaissance aircraft over international waters in the Baltic sea away from nearby Polish airspace. (DW)
Residents of Mogadishu, Somalia, vote to elect 390 district council members who will select the city’s mayor, marking Somalia’s first direct election since 1969, serving as a pilot for planned nationwide polls. (Reuters)
A woman is found dead and two other people are wounded in an attack in Boden, Sweden. The perpetrator is shot and killed by police. (Reuters)
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Friday, December 26th, 2025
Eight people are killed and 18 more injured in an explosion at a Shiite mosque in Homs, Syria. (Al Jazeera)
Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah claim responsibility for the attack via a statement on Telegram. (France 24)
Israel recognises the state of Somaliland. (Reuters)
At least 16 people are injured in a stabbing attack in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. (CBS News)
United States president Donald Trump orders strikes on the Islamic State in northwestern Nigeria. (CBS News)
The Polish Air Force intercepts and escorts a Russian aerial reconnaissance aircraft over international waters in the Baltic sea away from nearby Polish airspace. (DW)
Three people are killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes targeting vehicles in southern Lebanon, including a member of the Iranian Quds Force. (Reuters)
Turkish authorities seize weapons and documents and arrest 115 suspects in Istanbul, connected with Islamic State-planned attacks on non-Muslims at Christmas and New Year’s festivities across the country. (BBC News)
A woman is found dead and two other people are wounded in an attack in Boden, Sweden. The perpetrator is shot and killed by police. (Reuters)
Residents of Mogadishu, Somalia, vote to elect 390 district council members who will select the city’s mayor, marking Somalia’s first direct election since 1969, serving as a pilot for planned nationwide polls. (Reuters)
The End
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