Issue 2025-12-25
Stories
- Kremlin Briefed on U.S. 20-Point Ukraine Peace Draft, Signals Openness to Further Back-Channel Talks
- Kyiv–Washington 20-Point Draft Floats Demilitarised Donbas & Joint Zaporizhzhia Control
- Miami Peace Talks Produce Optics, Not Breakthrough, as Kremlin Rejects Revised 20-Point Plan
- Gold Breaches $4,400/oz as Fed Easing Bets and Venezuela Crisis Stoke Safe-Haven Rush
- USTR Sets June 23 2027 Start Date for New Tariffs on Chinese Legacy Semiconductors
- U.S. Scraps H-1B Lottery, Adds $100k Entry Fee After Court Win
- Roscosmos Signs 2025 Contract to Deploy Lunar Nuclear Power Plant by 2036
- Christmas Eve Atmospheric River Sparks SoCal Flood Emergency
- ISRO’s LVM3-M6 Lofted AST SpaceMobile’s 6.1-ton BlueBird Block-2, Largest Direct-to-Phone Satellite
At a Glance
- On 24 Dec 2025, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed envoy Kirill Dmitriev delivered a post-Miami briefing on a...
- On 24 Dec 2025 President Zelenskyy publicised a U.S.–negotiated 20-point cease-fire draft that, for the first time, o...
- After three days of U.S.-hosted meetings in Miami (Dec 20-22), Washington, Kyiv and Moscow all labeled the sessions “...
- On 22 Dec 2025 spot gold punched through US$4,400 an ounce for the first time, capping a 67 % year-to-date surge driv...
- Washington concluded its Section 301 probe and legally authorized tariffs on Chinese mature-node chips but kept the d...
- DHS issued a final rule on 24 Dec 2025 that replaces the random H-1B lottery with a wage-weighted draw starting 27 Fe...