Trump attends a roundtable discussion on the day he announced an aid package for farmers, at the White House. December 8, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst |
- Fighting between Cambodia and Thailand escalated along their contested border, as the Southeast Asian neighbours both said they would not back down in defending their sovereignty.
- Australia is set to become the first country to implement a minimum age for social media use, with platforms like Instagram, TikTok and YouTube forced to block more than a million accounts, marking the beginning of an expected global wave of regulation.
- Sri Lanka's fragile economic recovery will be delayed as Cyclone Ditwah's devastation of homes, roads and vital crops pushes more families into poverty, with officials warning the bill to rebuild could soar to $7 billion.
- Czech President Petr Pavel appointed the billionaire leader of the populist ANO party, Andrej Babis, as prime minister in a ceremony shown live on television.
- Lithuania's government declared a state of emergency over smuggler balloons originating in Belarus that have disrupted aviation, and asked parliament to allow the military to operate alongside police and border guards to increase security.
- States in Africa's Sahel region have accused Nigeria of violating their airspace, saying one of its military transport planes landed in Burkina Faso without clearance. There was no immediate comment from Nigeria, which has sent planes and troops to help quell a coup in neighbouring Benin, a country that also borders Burkina Faso.
- This year is set to be the world's second or third-warmest on record, potentially surpassed only by 2024'S record-breaking heat, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said.
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'It's scary, but we live on': inside Ukraine's besieged east |
Servicemen of the 49th Separate Assault Battalion Carpathian Sich of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Kostiantynivka. December 7, 2025. REUTERS/Anatolii Stepanov |
"Everything around us has been hit, it all burned up," he said. "It's scary, but we're living on - what can you do?" These are the words of 65-year-old Volodymyr, who rarely emerges from the basement of his battle-scarred building in eastern Ukraine, as Russian forces press at the doorstep of his city of Kostiantynivka. Residents like Volodymyr, who is staying behind to care for his ailing mother-in-law, are struggling to survive in bombed-out, shrapnel-ridden buildings as winter sets in. |
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Rotation of neutral hydrogen in galaxies residing in an extended filament seen in this undated illustration. Lyla Jung/Handout via REUTERS |
Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes up a filament in the macrostructure of the universe called the cosmic web. The filament, located about 140 million light-years from Earth, was observed by scientists primarily using the MeerKAT radio telescope located in South Africa, an array of 64 interlinked satellite dishes. |
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