December 2025

China War Games Intensify With Rockets And Naval Drills

China War Games Intensify With Rockets And Naval Drills

December 30, 2025 4:24 am

China expanded its largest ever military drills around Taiwan on Tuesday, firing rockets into nearby waters and deploying amphibious assault ships, bomber aircraft, and naval destroyers in what Beijing described as a rehearsal for a potential blockade of the island.

The exercises, which Chinese officials say include live fire operations, marked the second day of sweeping maneuvers encircling the democratically governed territory and raised fresh concerns in Taipei about further escalation.

China’s Eastern Theatre Command said the drills would continue until 6 p.m. local time and would affect airspace and waters in five zones surrounding Taiwan. In a video released …

Khaleda Zia Death Marks End Of An Era In Bangladesh

Khaleda Zia Death Marks End Of An Era In Bangladesh

December 30, 2025 3:59 am

Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first woman prime minister and one of the most influential figures in the country’s modern political history, has died after a long illness. She was 80.

Her party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, confirmed on Tuesday that Zia died following years of serious health complications, including advanced liver disease, diabetes, arthritis, and heart related conditions, according to her doctors.

Zia’s death closes a defining chapter in Bangladesh politics shaped by her decades long rivalry with Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister and leader of the Awami League. Together, the two women dominated the country’s political life for …

Diseases That Pay: The Global Health Economy—Intro

Diseases That Pay: The Global Health Economy—Intro

December 30, 2025 2:13 am

In a world where every illness is an industry, healing has become humanity’s most expensive pursuit.

By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze

Introductory Overview

How the World Learned to Monetize Sickness

There was a time when medicine was a calling, and when the physician’s oath was a covenant between compassion and science. But somewhere along the fluorescent corridors of the twenty-first century, the language of healing changed. The patient became a consumer, the hospital a revenue center, the prescription pad a financial instrument. In this new moral arithmetic, illness is no longer an interruption of life — it is an industry.

Across …

Turkey Islamic State Raid Leaves Nine Dead In Yalova

Turkey Islamic State Raid Leaves Nine Dead In Yalova

December 29, 2025 6:08 am

Turkish security forces killed six Islamic State militants and lost three police officers during a prolonged gun battle in the northwestern town of Yalova on Monday, authorities said, showing Ankara’s intensified campaign against the extremist group ahead of the year end holiday period.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the clash erupted during a counterterrorism raid on a suspected militant hideout near the Sea of Marmara, south of Istanbul. The operation came just days after police detained more than 100 suspected Islamic State members accused of plotting attacks around Christmas and New Year celebrations.

The deaths highlight renewed security pressure in …

Rescue Hunt Intensifies After Tour Boat Submerge In Indonesia

Rescue Hunt Intensifies After Tour Boat Submerge In Indonesia

December 29, 2025 3:28 am

Search teams race against time near Komodo National Park as rough seas delay efforts to find a Spanish soccer coach and three children missing after a boat accident.

Indonesian rescue teams intensified search efforts on Saturday December 27, 2025, for a Spanish soccer coach and three of his children after a tour boat carrying foreign tourists and crew sank near Padar Island, a remote but popular destination inside Komodo National Park.

The wooden vessel, which was transporting 11 people, went down late Friday December 26, 2025, after suffering engine failure while traveling from Komodo Island to Padar, according to Indonesia’s

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Gaza Talks To Continue As Trump Meets Netanyahu

Gaza Talks To Continue As Trump Meets Netanyahu

December 29, 2025 3:21 am

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to press for movement on the stalled Gaza ceasefire when he meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, according to officials familiar with the plans. The talks are set to cover the next phase of the Gaza agreement as well as Israel’s security concerns involving Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran.

The meeting comes as Washington tries to prevent a collapse of the ceasefire framework it helped broker last year. Despite a sharp drop in large scale fighting, the agreement has been repeatedly tested by accusations of violations and continued violence on the ground.…

Why Captain Iheanacho Is Imo’s Best Hope—Part 7

Why Captain Iheanacho Is Imo’s Best Hope—Part 7

December 29, 2025 3:03 am

The future is not awaited — it is constructed. Imo’s tomorrow depends on whether competence becomes its language or corruption remains its culture.

By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze

The Compass of Tomorrow

Every generation reaches a threshold where history pauses and asks: Who among you can build again? For Imo State, that question is no longer rhetorical. The years of drift, the politics of survival, the exhaustion of faith — all have led to this reckoning. Beneath the fatigue of failure still beats the heart of a people too intelligent to accept despair as destiny.

What Imo needs now is …

Nigeria AKK Gas Pipeline Nears Completion

Nigeria AKK Gas Pipeline Nears Completion

December 29, 2025 2:51 am

Nigeria’s NNPC says a long delayed gas pipeline is finally nearing completion, a step it believes could unlock large scale manufacturing and power generation across the country’s northern region.

After briefing President Bola Tinubu on Sunday, NNPC Ltd Group Chief Executive Bashir Ojulari told reporters that welding work on the main line of the Ajaokuta Kaduna Kano gas pipeline has been completed, including the technically difficult crossing of the River Niger. That section had stalled progress on the project for years.

The milestone brings the 614 kilometer pipeline closer to delivery, with connections expected to begin early next year. Ojulari …

Nepal Election Alliance Shakes Up For March Vote

Nepal Election Alliance Shakes Up For March Vote

December 29, 2025 2:32 am

Two of Nepal’s most popular anti establishment figures have joined forces ahead of the country’s March 5 parliamentary elections, setting up a direct challenge to the traditional parties that have dominated politics in the Himalayan nation for more than three decades.

Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah, widely known as Balen, has formally aligned with the Rastriya Swatantra Party, or RSP, led by former television host Rabi Lamichhane, according to party officials. The alliance brings together two leaders who gained national followings through youth driven protest movements and anti corruption campaigns, reshaping an already volatile election landscape.

The deal gives the …

Ghana Arrest And Detains 141 Nigerians For Fraud, Cybercrime

Ghana Arrest And Detains 141 Nigerians For Fraud, Cybercrime

December 29, 2025 2:26 am

Ghanaian authorities raid Accra suburbs, seizing laptops, phones, and detaining 141 Nigerians linked to online fraud and cybercrime networks.

Ghanaian Government have arrested 141 Nigerians in a pre-dawn crackdown on alleged cybercrime networks operating in the capital. The operation, intelligence-led and coordinated across multiple suburbs, targeted Lashibi and Tabora, resulting in 100 arrests in Tabora and 41 in Lashibi.

Officials also detained a Ghanaian landlord who reportedly housed approximately 100 of the suspects. Authorities recovered 38 laptops and 150 mobile phones believed to have been used in a range of cybercrime activities, including mobile money fraud, romance scams, sextortion, business …

Trump Zelenskiy Ukraine Peace Talks Edge Closer To Deal

Trump Zelenskiy Ukraine Peace Talks Edge Closer To Deal

December 29, 2025 2:18 am

U.S. President Donald Trump said talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy are nearing a potential breakthrough, signaling fresh momentum in efforts to end the war in Ukraine while acknowledging that the future of the eastern Donbas region remains unresolved.

The two leaders spoke to reporters on Sunday after meeting at Trump’s Mar a Lago resort in Florida, where they discussed security guarantees for Ukraine and the territorial status of areas in eastern Ukraine occupied during the conflict. Trump said the negotiations were moving forward, adding that the sides were “getting a lot closer, maybe very close” to an agreement.

The …

Dia Smith: Former Broadway “The Lion King” Star Killed In NJ

Dia Smith: Former Broadway “The Lion King” Star Killed In NJ

December 29, 2025 2:12 am

Imani Dia Smith, former Young Nala in Broadway’s “The Lion King,” dies at 26 in New Jersey stabbing; boyfriend charged with murder and weapons offenses.

Imani Dia Smith, a former child actress who played Young Nala in Broadway’s acclaimed production of “The Lion King,” was fatally stabbed at her home in New Jersey on December 21, 2025. She was 26 years old.

Authorities arrested Smith’s boyfriend, Jordan D. Jackson-Small, 35, and charged him with first-degree murder, second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, and weapons offenses. Police have confirmed that the investigation is ongoing, but no further details about the …

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