Issue 2026-01-02
Stories
- China’s ‘Justice Mission 2025’ Encirclement Drill Spurs Taiwan’s 2026 Unity-for-Defense Drive
- Brazil’s Supreme Court Rebukes Bolsonaro’s Bid for House Arrest, Sends Ex-President Back to Federal Police Jail
- First fatalities and nationwide bazaar strike in Iran’s fifth-day currency-collapse protests
- China Activates 55 % ‘Safeguard’ Tariff on Over-Quota Beef Imports
- Trump Lifts Ban on Nvidia H200, Sparking 2-Million-Chip Chinese Buying Spree and Emergency TSMC Ramp-Up
- BYD Passes Tesla in 2025 Global Electric-Vehicle Sales
- France’s La Poste Hit by Second NoName057(16) DDoS in One Week
- France Tables Bill to Bar Under-15s from Social Media Starting Sept 2026
- Apple Breaks Annual Cycle: Standard iPhone 18 Pushed to Spring 2027
At a Glance
- In the final week of 2025 Beijing ran its largest ever blockade-style exercise around Taiwan, and on 1 Jan 2026 Presi...
- On 2 Jan 2026, minutes after doctors cleared him from week-long hernia and hiccup surgeries, Jair Bolsonaro was drive...
- On 1 Jan 2026 the unrest that began over Iran’s free-falling rial left at least six protesters and one Basij member d...
- Beijing will levy an extra 55 % duty on any beef shipments arriving after 1 Jan 2026 that push a new global quota of...
- On 8 December 2025 the Trump administration reversed Biden-era controls and okayed Nvidia’s H200 GPU exports to “appr...
- BYD sold about 2.26 million battery-electric cars in 2025, overtaking Tesla’s estimated 1.65 million and ending the U...