Ukraine’s Zelensky meets with key European leaders as Trump looms

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held talks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and other European leaders on Wednesday, aiming to get immediate help to bolster Kyiv’s war effort and discuss longer-term security guarantees. The talks took place with Ukraine on the defensive on the battlefield and uncertainty hanging over future US support, as President-elect Donald … Read more

Exclusive: Terrorist Pannu now targets India’s ‘friend’, says he openly helped in Nijjar’s murder

Washington. Gurupatwant Singh Pannu, the leader of the pro-Khalistan organization Sikhs for Justice, based in America and Canada, has now left a new secret. Pannu claimed that India’s friendly country Russia has helped in the conspiracy to murder Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a pro-Khalistan terrorist living in Canada. Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) said the Russian Embassy … Read more

Experts warn Bluesky could become target of foreign disinformation

Washington – Experts on cybersecurity and online foreign influence campaigns are urging Bluesky, the social media company whose app has exploded in popularity in recent weeks, to increase moderation to counter potential state-sponsored influence efforts. In the past month, Bluesky, a microblogging platform with its roots in Twitter, has seen its largest increase in new … Read more

The Syrian regime’s atrocities ‘have been documented all along’, war crimes investigator says

UN investigators, who have been collecting evidence of the regime’s crimes for years, say the fall of Assad offers a seminal opportunity to gather first hand evidence. FRANCE 24’s Charlotte Hughes reports. Sharon Gaffney speaks to Janine Di Giovanni, executive director of the Reckoning Project. She says that the atrocities committed by the Assad regime … Read more

Trump rejects spending bill, triggering possible shutdown – DW – 12/19/2024

Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Republicans to reject a bipartisan plan aimed at averting a government shutdown, leaving Congress in trouble as lawmakers prepare to go home for the holiday season. The about-face means Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans will have to try to renegotiate a new deal or face a shutdown when federal … Read more

Pakistani media to experience increase in violence, repression in 2024

Islamabad — Malik Zafar Iqbal Naich was delivering copies of the newspaper he works for last week when gunmen on a motorcycle shot the journalist dead. Naich, a 45-year-old reporter and news agent for Daily Khabran, became the 12th journalist killed in a deadly year for Pakistan’s media industry. Police are investigating the case in … Read more

US Fed Rate Cut: Federal Reserve reduced interest rates for the third time in a row, announced a cut of 0.25 percent – us fed rate cut federal reserve reduced interest rates for the third time in a row announced a cut of 0 25 percent

US Fed Rate Cut: The US central bank Federal Reserve has announced the third consecutive cut in interest rates. As expected, interest rates have been cut by 25 basis points in December. The Federal Reserve took this decision in the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. After this cut, the interest rate has come down … Read more