Monthly Archives: December 2025
China sanctions 20 US defense companies over arms sales to Taiwan
Beijing imposed sanctions on Friday against 20 U.S. defense-related companies and 10 executives, a week after Washington announced large-scale arms sales to Taiwan. The sanctions entail freezing the companies’ assets in China and banning individuals and organizations from dealing with them, according to the Chinese foreign ministry.
2026: A Year of Clarifications?
[R]eference… a dozen abortive attempts at peace-making across the globe, shaky compromises on tariffs and trade, and inertia disguised as hyperactivity. A tantalizing peace deal in Ukraine seems within reach but always slipping away…. A shiny plan to settle the Israel-Palestine conflict is unveiled but quickly dissolves in deepening shadows.
Palestinian Authority ‘Help’ Is a Trap for Washington: Trump Has the Opportunity to Break a Cycle of Defeat
The Palestinian Authority is not a neutral Muslim-majority entity seeking peace. Its doctrine has, for decades, blended conventional diplomacy with asymmetric warfare — using terrorism as an instrument of policy. In the last decade, this double game has not disappeared. It has merely learned to speak the language of Western guilt. Countries in the West have actually rewarded its terrorism, both by continuing lavishly to fund it and by climbing over one another to recognize a fictitious, nonexistent “Palestinian State.”
Ubuhanuzi bukomeje gusohoza umulimo wabwo ibihugu binini bizaba bitoya, naho ibitoya byaguke
Kuba Israel yemeje ko Somaliland ari igihugu yemera nyuma yuko basabye kwigenga mu mwaka w’i1991, ariko nta bwo UN yigeze yemera kwigenga kwabo. Nubwo isi yose yanze kwemera kwigenga kwabo, ntabwo byahagaritse kuba baba igihugu nkuko babyifuzaga bihaguye kuri Somalia n’intara nini cyane ifite abaturage barenga milliyoni (6) zabatuye icyo gihugu.
UK restricts DR Congo visas over migrant return policy
The home secretary announced an overhaul of the UK’s asylum rules in November
The UK is to impose visa restrictions against people arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo after its government failed to agree to measures allowing the return of illegal migrants and foreign national offenders.
