December 2025

BBC/Kenya US Health Deal Sparks Data Privacy Debate

Kenya US Health Deal Sparks Data Privacy Debate

December 5, 2025 7:16 am

Kenya and the United States have finalized a five-year, $2.5bn health partnership that will direct major funding toward infectious disease programs, marking Washington’s first government-to-government health pact since President Donald Trump reshaped US foreign aid earlier this year.

The agreement is designed to shift US health financing away from aid agencies and into direct cooperation with national governments. It also places Kenya at the front of a new US global health strategy that ties long-term funding to closer political alignment.

The deal has prompted fresh debate inside Kenya, where civil society groups and legal experts are questioning whether it could …

Japan Interest Rate Hike Nears As Kiuchi Backs BOJ Talks

Japan Interest Rate Hike Nears As Kiuchi Backs BOJ Talks

December 5, 2025 7:04 am

Japan’s economic revitalisation minister Minoru Kiuchi urged the central bank on Friday to keep steady communication with the government as it finalises its next policy steps, while refraining from opposing a possible interest rate increase later this month.

His remarks arrive at a sensitive moment for the Bank of Japan, which is widely expected to consider lifting its benchmark rate to zero point seven five percent from zero point five percent at its December eighteen to nineteen meeting. According to Reuters, government officials anticipate the decision and are not preparing to resist it, even though Kiuchi himself has long …

Israel Defence Budget For 2026 Rises As Cabinet Opens Talks

Israel Defence Budget For 2026 Rises As Cabinet Opens Talks

December 5, 2025 6:51 am

Israel has confirmed a defence budget of 112 billion shekels for 2026, a sharp rise that signals continued security pressures even after the ceasefire arrangements with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The figure, announced on Friday, emerged as ministers entered the first round of talks on next year’s national budget, a process that must be finished by March to avoid the risk of fresh elections.

The increase places defence at the centre of the political debate, with government officials arguing that the armed forces need long term funding after an expensive year of conflict. According to the finance …

China Maritime Deployment Sparks Concern In Taiwan And Japan

China Maritime Deployment Sparks Concern In Taiwan And Japan

December 5, 2025 6:31 am

Taiwan and Japan raised alarms on Friday after reports that China had sent an unusually large number of naval and coast guard vessels across East Asian waters. The deployment marks one of Beijing’s most extensive maritime operations in recent years, according to information reviewed by Reuters.

The activity, which involved more than one hundred ships at its peak, stretched across several strategic zones, from the Yellow Sea to the western Pacific. The scale of the movement drew regional attention because it extended far beyond the Taiwan Strait and included the contested Senkaku Islands area in the East China Sea.

Speaking …

BBC/Dundee Culpable Homicide Case Leads To Prison Term

Dundee Culpable Homicide Case Leads To Prison Term

December 5, 2025 6:21 am

A woman with a long record of violent offending has been jailed for killing a ninety seven year old Dundee man after forcing her way into his home and demanding money. The High Court in Edinburgh ruled that Tandy Swinton, aged forty four, caused the fatal injuries that led to the death of William Lambie in May last year.

Swinton was convicted of culpable homicide after prosecutors showed that she pushed the frail pensioner to the floor during the confrontation in April. Mr Lambie, described as vulnerable and slight in build, never recovered from the injuries he suffered in the …

Part 1: Decoding the Plant — The Science of Cannabis

Part 1: Decoding the Plant — The Science of Cannabis

December 5, 2025 2:18 am

By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze

For more than a century, Cannabis sativa has lived under the shadow of misunderstanding, branded as a vice, criminalized by politics, and condemned by cultures that never truly studied it. Yet, as the fog of misinformation begins to lift, science is revealing a very different picture: cannabis is not a threat to human biology but one of its most sophisticated allies. At its molecular core lies a story of co-evolution, a biological partnership between plant and person that modern medicine can no longer afford to ignore.

The Molecular Language of Cannabis

To grasp the significance of …

Minneapolis Police Prepared To Act Amid ICE Enforcement Plans

Minneapolis Police Prepared To Act Amid ICE Enforcement Plans

December 4, 2025 12:29 pm

Minneapolis Police chief urges 911 calls for suspected ICE activity, highlights civil rights protection as federal immigration operations loom in Twin Cities.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara has instructed officers to be ready to intervene if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conduct operations in the city, emphasizing protection of residents’ civil rights. The guidance comes amid planned federal immigration enforcement and heightened tensions following remarks by President Donald Trump targeting Somali immigrants.

Speaking at a city press conference, O’Hara advised residents to call 911 if they observe masked individuals in their neighborhoods, a precaution aimed at some ICE agents …

Tempe Shooting Kills Wife And Coworker Outside Little Caesars

Tempe Shooting Kills Wife And Coworker Outside Little Caesars

December 4, 2025 11:41 am

Benjamin Visser Jr. arrested for fatal shooting of wife Mary Visser and coworker Shaquille Simmons in Arizona strip mall, motive under investigation.

Tempe, Arizona, experienced early morning shooting at a Little Caesars restaurant in Tempe has left two people dead and the local community reeling. Authorities say 27-year-old Benjamin Visser Jr. has been arrested and charged with two counts of premeditated murder in the deaths of his wife, 21-year-old Mary Visser, and her coworker, 32-year-old Shaquille Simmons.

The incident occurred shortly after 9 a.m. local time on Monday December 1, 2025, at a busy strip mall, a time when surrounding …

Nigeria’s Defence Minister Abubakar Resigns Over Health Risk

Nigeria’s Defense Minister Abubakar Resigns Over Health Risk

December 4, 2025 9:33 am

Tinubu accepts Abubakar’s immediate resignation on health grounds as Nigeria faces a security emergency and appoints a new defense minister.

Nigeria’s Defense Minister, Mohammed Abubakar, has stepped down from office with immediate effect, citing health concerns, the Presidency announced on Monday December 1, 2025.

The resignation, formally submitted in a letter dated December 1, 2025, was confirmed by presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga. According to the statement, President Bola Tinubu accepted the decision and expressed appreciation for Abubakar’s service during a period marked by heightened security pressures across the country.

Abubakar, 63, previously served two terms as governor of Jigawa State

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The Cannabis Code: Sativa Vs Indica Unlocked—Intro

The Cannabis Code: Sativa Vs Indica Unlocked—Intro

December 4, 2025 4:48 am

By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze

Introduction — The Plant That Refused to Be Silenced

Every century births a paradox that defines its moral and scientific struggle. For ours, that paradox is cannabis, a plant once criminalized as poison, now emerging as a cure. To some, it is rebellion. To others, redemption. Yet in the quiet corridors of medicine and neuroscience, cannabis is something far more profound: an evolutionary dialogue between plant intelligence and human biology.

For decades, fear disguised itself as policy. Nations legislated morality while ignoring molecular truth. The “war on drugs” became a war on discovery, silencing research, imprisoning …

Novichok Inquiry Findings Set To Reshape UK View Of Salisbury Attack

Novichok Inquiry Findings, To Reshape View Of Salisbury Attack

December 4, 2025 4:35 am

A public inquiry in the United Kingdom will on Thursday issue its final report on the death of Dawn Sturgess, the woman who was fatally exposed to the Novichok nerve agent months after the attempted killing of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal in 2018.

The Novichok inquiry findings will close a lengthy process examining how a banned military-grade toxin entered Britain, how it ended up in a counterfeit perfume bottle, and why an innocent civilian died in an incident that sparked one of the most serious diplomatic standoffs between London and Moscow since the Cold War.

Skripal and his …

Malaysia Corruption: Shamsul Iskandar Puts Pressure On Anwar

Malaysia Corruption: Shamsul Iskandar Puts Pressure On Anwar

December 4, 2025 3:56 am

Malaysian prosecutors charged a former senior aide to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday, a move that has revived political debate over the government’s promise to curb graft. The Malaysia corruption case Shamsul Iskandar enters court at a sensitive moment for Anwar, who campaigned on restoring public trust after years of political upheaval.

Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin, who resigned last week as Anwar’s senior political secretary, was accused of accepting 176,829 ringgit (about $42,960) from businessman Albert Tei in return for help securing mineral mining licences in Sabah, according to court filings seen by Reuters. He entered a plea of …

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