December 27th, 2025

• ​Israel becomes first country to recognize breakaway Somaliland as independent state - President says his country wants to join Abraham Accords; move sparks anger among regional powers who say it undermines sovereignty and territorial integrity of Somalia
• Saudi Arabia rejects Israel's recognition of Somaliland, affirms support for Somalia
• Trump says he won't join Israel's recognition of Somaliland, but will 'study' matter
• Somaliland residents celebrate recognition of sovereignty; Israeli flag projected in capital
• Report reveals UN spends $100 million annually on anti-Israel activities
• Israeli airline El Al to be fined millions of shekels for demanding excessive prices during the war
• Belgium becomes latest country to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel
• Hundreds join Ran Gvili's family to demand return of last hostage: 'We don't forget'
• October 7 Hostage Held By Hamas Bravely Goes Public with Horrific Details of Sexual Abuse She Suffered at the Hands of Monsters
• Terrorist accused of raping guards is punished in jail for plan to instigate riot - Palestinian security prisoner was denied release during hostage deals
• IDF says it killed 2 suspects who 'posed threat' after crossing Gaza ceasefire line
• Netanyahu vows response to Hamas after IDF officer wounded by Gaza IED
• With Trump backing away amid global refusal, plan to relocate Gazans looking like pipe dream - No countries, with possible exception of Indonesia, willing to absorb Palestinians
• 'Jesus is Palestinian' billboard in Times Square this week placed by Arab-American rights group - American-Arab Discrimination Committee says displays aim to bring awareness to Gaza-Israel conflict
• Heritage Foundation professor resigns over think tank's 'untenable' position on anti-Semitism
• Israeli FM Sa'ar: International community acts discriminatorily against Jews in Judea and Samaria
• 'Morally wrong': Sa'ar slams countries condemning new West Bank settlements - Foreign minister says critical statement from 14 nations is 'discriminatory' against Jews and their right to live in the Land of Israel
• Palestinian Authority President Abbas faces backlash over cutting 'pay-for-slay' salaries - Palestinians have held protests across the West Bank, accusing Mahmoud Abbas and his leadership of "disrespecting the sacrifices made by the Palestinian people."
• 2 killed, 2 injured in related terror attacks in northern Israel - Attempted ramming attack near Hebron is unsuccessful, terrorist apprehended
• Two killed in terror attack in northern Israel; assailant shot, injured by passerby
• Ambassador Huckabee: Terror attacks threaten any path to lasting peace in Israel - US Ambassador Mike Huckabee and PM Netanyahu condemn the deadly terror attack in northern Israel that left two Israelis dead
• Following double terror attack: IDF prepares to enter Qabatiya - Beit She'an terrorist identified as 37-year-old Ahmad al-Roub, a 37-year-old Qabatiya resident, Defense Minister orders Qabatiya terror infrastructure decimated
• IDF strikes elite Hezbollah unit's training site in northeastern Lebanon
• Blast at Syrian mosque during Friday prayers leaves at least eight dead
• Syria prepares for economic revival as United States drops Caesar Act sanctions - More than a legal step, the repeal of the Caesar Act signals a political and economic shift that has put Syria back on the radar after years largely cut off from global markets
• Saudi message to Israel: Intervention in Syria pushes normalization further away
• Yemen Separatists Accuse Saudi Arabia of Launching Airstrikes
• Iran seizes oil tanker carrying smuggled fuel on Strait of Hormuz, state news agency says
• 'Not for the people': Myanmar junta prepares for elections designed to legitimise grip on power - Elections will be first since military seized power in 2021, but analysts say vote is far from a step toward democracy
• Ex-Malaysia PM Najib Razak given 15-year jail term over state funds scandal
• Taiwan's opposition launches 'symbolic' campaign to impeach president - Opposition parties accuse President Lai and Premier Cho of violating Taiwan's constitution in impeachment bid
• Japan's Cabinet OKs record defense budget that aims to deter China
• Is China quietly preparing cargo ships to transform into military vessels in case of war? Containers bear the words 'plan for the maritime revival of the Chinese nation and the community of shared future for mankind in the ocean'
• Nuclear submarine arms race heats up between North and South Korea
• Kim Jong Un pushes for faster weapons output after touring nuclear sub with his daughter - The leader's remarks come after South Korea and the U.S. have struck their own nuclear sub deal
• Nigerian official refuses to rule out US troops on the ground after airstrikes
• Thailand bombs Cambodian border area as ceasefire talks continue
• Cambodia blames Thailand for 'ruthless' bombardment amid border talks - US offers to mediate more talks to end the latest flare-up of violence, which has upended an October peace accord
• Russia claims to have seized swathes of Ukraine in 2025 - Analysts and Ukrainian officials doubt Moscow's latest announcements as peace talks stall
• The Daily Beast: Trump plots desperate Mar-a-Lago summits to save flailing peace deals
• Trump to meet with Zelensky for peace talks at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday
• Zelensky says he is prepared to call for a referendum on Trump peace plan with immediate ceasefire
• Trump: Zelenskyy 'Doesn't Have Anything' Without His Approval
• NATO is looking to Ukraine for ways to kill drones without wasting expensive missiles
• Ukraine is leveraging its powerful - and cheap - new drone killers for air defense
• Ukraine Now Using Drone Boats To Attack Russian Riverine Targets
• Zelenskiy says Russia using Belarus territory to circumvent Ukrainian defences
• Kurt Volker: Putin Wants All of Ukraine, Not Peace
• Russia Likely Placing New Hypersonic Missiles at Former Airbase in Belarus, Researchers Find
• Putin casts chilling net across 25 countries in Ukraine plot - Russia is promising foreign nationals money and pathways to citizenship to recruit them for the war in Ukraine
• Moscow sentences Russian diplomat to 12 years for passing secrets to US intelligence
• Putin's 'Keeper of Secrets' Dies Suddenly After Firing - Colonel-General Yuri Sadovenko's sudden Christmas Day death is just the latest around Putin's orbit
• Big business in Russia reports most severe industrial crisis since the 1990s
• Russia's War Economy Falters as Civilian Industries Slide Into Deep Decline
• 'Gunboat diplomacy on steroids': US signs security deals across Latin America - Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro warns Trump administration may 'destabilise the entire region' amid rising tensions
• Trump Tasks Military With an 'Oil Quarantine' Against Venezuela, as Economic Pressure Is Chosen for Now Over Military Action
• Falling price of cocaine forces drug traffickers to reuse narco-submarines, say Spanish police - Previously vessels would be sunk once they had completed their cargo runs from South America to Europe
• Pedro Sanchez's Socialist Government Allocates 2.3 Million Euros to Finance the 'Digital Transformation' of the Cuban Regime
• As the cost of living keeps climbing, Americans are 'trying to muscle through' the affordability crisis, analyst says
• 10 US housing markets crashing like the Great Recession
• A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
• Czech Magnate Living in Ringo Starr's Mansion Allegedly Built 20 Billion Euro Fortune Looting American Pension Funds, and Using His Own Mother as a Shell Company Owner
• Florida Dem lawmaker removes $100,000 diamond ring from photo after being charged with stealing $5 million in FEMA funds
• Fani Willis Hit With Explosive New Allegations Tied to Massive Democrat Money Laundering Scheme
• Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment, threats have changed their lives
• Trump Goes Off After DOJ Finds 1 Million More Epstein Files - "Release all of Their Names, Embarrass Them, and Get Back to Helping our Country... Just another Witch Hunt"
• Trump rings in Christmas Day with a flurry of posts denouncing perceived foes and casting doubt on the 2020 election - The president posted on Truth Social over 100 times overnight, also touting his own economic policies and efforts to end foreign wars
• Social Media Users Note an Interesting Irony as Jimmy Kimmel Slams America and Brands Trump a 'Tyrant' During "Christmas Message" to the United Kingdom: "The UK is putting people in prison for social media posts and working to do away with jury trials"
• Judge blocks US from deporting UK official accused of attempting to censor American free speech
• China social media thrashes one-child policy after population control czar dies
• World-class monster: China's one-child policy czar reviled even in her death
• Germany prepares strict rules for social media, children's access may be limited
• German minister sees 'merit' to social media ban for teens
• Switzerland Considers Social Media Ban for Minors to Protect Children Online
• New airport 'DNA' law now in effect at US airports - The new rule comes one day before one of the busiest travel days of the year
• FBI director hints at bureau's quiet expansion of global biometrics reach - Top law enforcement agency is scaling a long-running biometric screening architecture that operates far beyond U.S. borders out of public sight
• AI made tech billionaires even richer this year. Here's how much. There are 50 new tech billionaires in 2025 because of AI, including the seven co-founders of Anthropic
• Retailers using artificial intelligence to track return fraud
• Waymo Has to Pay People $22 to Close Stuck Robotaxi Doors - It turns out human drivers are good for more than just driving
• 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits near Bengkulu, Indonesia
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Bengkulu, Indonesia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 21,000ft
• Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 20,000ft
• Purace volcano in Colombia erupts to 17,000ft
• Mt Etna in Italy erupts to 16,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 15,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 13,000ft
• New York City could see its most snow in a few years from a post-Christmas storm slicing through the Northeast
• US airlines cancel over 1,000 flights amid winter storm warning from Great Lakes to New England
• America's Biggest Oil Field Is Turning Into a Pressure Cooker - Drillers' injection of wastewater is creating mayhem across the Permian Basin - Shale drillers have turned the biggest oil field in the U.S. into a pressure cooker that is literally bursting at the seams
• Who is Ebo Noah? Thousands of Ghanaians flock to self-proclaimed prophet's ark as they believe the world is ending on December 25
• World ending on December 25? Viral Ghanaian 'prophet' Ebo Noah builds modern Noah's Ark for biblical Christmas flood
• Just in Time for the Holidays, Lansing's Annual Satanic Yule Goat Returned to the Capitol Lawn
• The great unchurching of America: The U.S. is undergoing its fastest religious shift in modern history, marked by a rapid increase in the religiously unaffiliated and numerous church closures nationwide
• How A Decline In Churchgoing Led To A Rise In 'Deaths Of Despair'
• Christians beaten, held hostage and Bibles set on fire in brutal attack by Hindu extremists
• Alex Jones Calls Out Candace Owens Over Kirk Conspiracies: 'Maybe You Were Always a Demon'
• FBI violent crime arrests double in Trump's first year in 17 key cities compared to Biden record
• No Charges for Man Who Opened Fire on Kentucky State University Campus
• Mass officials release 39 convicted murderers who were sentenced to life without parole - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for 18 to 20-year-olds to be given life without parole
• Convicted Portland Antifa bomber praises Charlie Kirk assassination, urges more killings in prison blog posts
• At least 15 injured in a knife and chemical attack at a factory in Japan - A man has been arrested after stabbing eight people and injuring seven others with a chemical believed to be bleach at a rubber factory in central Japan
• Ex-War Department official warns terrorists may one day aerosolize fentanyl, praises Trump move - Former WMD official David Lasseter noted that Russian security forces in 2002 accidentally killed 130 hostages during a Chechen terrorism incident when they pumped a gaseous form of fentanyl into a theater hoping to anesthetize the terrorists
• UK Teacher Referred to Anti-Terror Programme for Showing Students Trump Videos: Report
• Catholic Minnesota Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan dons hijab to appear on Somali TV
• Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan wears hijab in solidarity with Somalis as feds probe multibillion-dollar fraud scandal
• Minnesota Democratic lieutenant governor, Senate candidate Flanagan wearing hijab sparks backlash - Somalian residents in Minnesota are at the center of a federal investigation related to an estimated $9 billion, pandemic era fraud scam
• Tim Walz's Daughter Uses Christmas Message to Condemn ICE for 'Terrorizing' Communities
• JB Pritzker Promises Democrats Will Hold ICE Agents Accountable
• Justice Department Says Filming Immigration Raids Is 'Domestic Terrorism'
• ICE: 70% Arrested Had Criminal Ties
• Laken's Legacy: More than 17,500 illegal aliens captured under law named for slain nursing student
• ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?' The immigration agency's surveillance tools and increased access to government databases draws privacy concerns
• Wasserman Schultz: Trump Wasting 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Deporting People'
• Immigration debate 'dividing us', incoming archbishop of Canterbury warns in Christmas sermon
• Supreme Court's National Guard decision could force new debate over how Trump could use Insurrection Act
• HHS opens probe into Seattle Children's Hospital over transgender youth health care
• Conservative and Christian? US right champions psychedelic drugs - Texas governor among those to call for expanded access to ibogaine, said to help with treating veterans with PTSD
• Obama-appointed judge blocks WV from enforcing ban on artificial dyes in foods after food dye makers sue