Wed 17 December 2025: Shares of Chinese chipmaker MetaX Integrated Circuits surged about 700% during their market debut in Shanghai on Wednesday, following the company’s almost $600 million first public offering. MetaX shares began trading at 700 yuan ($99.4) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Star Market index, which is heavily weighted towards technology companies, 569% […]
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Wed 17 December 2025: Doctors in England on Wednesday began a five-day strike due to dispute over pay and working conditions amid the country’s National Health Service (NHS) warning over surging flue cases. In a latest action over pay, thousands of resident doctors begin another walkout following British Medical Association (BMA) calls “the continuing failure […]
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Wed 17 December 2025: US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday a “total and complete blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela, calling the Maduro government a “foreign terrorist organization.” “Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump wrote on his social media platform […]
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Tue 16 December 2025 As of December 16, 2025, the aggregate fortune of the planet’s 10 wealthiest entrepreneurs has surpassed $2.5 trillion. Leading the pack is Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and founder of SpaceX, who holds the title of the globe’s richest individual with a net worth of approximately $638 billion. According to Bloomberg […]
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Tue 16 December 2025: Investigators say the deadly Bondi Beach attack is being treated as ‘terrorism’ after evidence of ISIL influence found. The Australian police say the two men accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that killed 15 people were “inspired” by the ISIL (ISIS) group. Police also […]
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Tue 16 December 2025: Exiled punk band says its members are proud to be branded ‘extremists’ and hits back at Putin as an ‘aging sociopath’. A Moscow district court has designated Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot as an extremist organisation, according to the state TASS news agency. The exiled group’s lawyer, Leonid Solovyov, told […]
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Tue 16 December 2025: Lawyers for US President Donald Trump say the BBC caused him overwhelming reputational and financial harm. United States President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit seeking at least $10bn from the BBC over a documentary that edited his speech to supporters before the US Capitol riot in 2021. The lawsuit, filed in […]
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Mon 15 December 2025: UK Labour have lost more than 100,000 members since the General Election – and more than half their total since before Keir Starmer was appointed leader. The leaked figures, reported in The Times, state that Labour have fallen below 250,000 paid-up members. Before Starmer became leader, they had more than half […]
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Mon 15 December 2025: The Trump administration has directed US airport security officials to routinely share passenger names with immigration authorities, a move that officials say is aimed at identifying people subject to deportation, according to reporting by The New York Times and other outlets. Since March, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been sending […]
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Sun 14 December 2025: Australian media reported that the individual, who intervened in a shooting attack on a beach in Sydney and disarmed one of the suspects, was a man named Ahmed al Ahmed. According to a report published on News.com.au, video footage captured the moment during the attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach when a man approached one of the […]
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