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Dec 2, 2025 - World

Defence secretary gave order for strikes but did not say to ‘kill everybody’, according to White House spokespersonJoseph Gedeon is a politics breaking news reporter based in WashingtonThe FBI director, Kash Patel, is “in over his head” and leading a “chronically under-performing” agency paralyzed by fear and plummeting morale, according to a scathing 115-page report compiled by a national alliance of retired and active-duty FBI special agents and analysts. Continue reading...

Dec 2, 2025 - World

About 82% of this year's mass killings involved a firearm. Since 2006, 3,234 people have died in mass killings and 81% of them were shooting victims.

Dec 2, 2025 - World

Hong Kong has a legal mechanism to set up "commissions of inquiry", which in the past were usually led by judges to undertake complex fact-finding exercises -- a practice left over from British colonial rule.

Dec 2, 2025 - World

Joaquín Guzmán López’s alleged kidnapping was to show cooperation with US leaders, attorney saysArmed men entered through a window to ambush Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the most elusive of the Sinaloa cartel’s leaders, who was then loaded onto a plane, drugged and spirited across the border to the United States, according to details revealed on Monday in the plea hearing of the drug trafficker who abducted him.Joaquín Guzmán López, the 39-year-old son of former Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking and continuing criminal enterprise in federal court in Chicago after admitting his role in overseeing the transport of tens of thousands of kilograms (pounds) of drugs to the US. Continue reading...

Dec 2, 2025 - World

The report released Tuesday likens the situation to the "Great Divergence" of the industrial revolution, when many Western countries saw rapid modernization while others fell behind.