- India Orders a Tracking App to Be Installed in All Smartphones The New York Times
- Sanchar Saathi: India mandates state-owned cyber safety app on all smartphones BBC
- India's Congress seeks parliament debate on state-run app for smartphones Reuters
- India Says Mandatory Phone App Can Be Deleted After Backlash Bloomberg.com
- FirstFT: Reform UK donors say Farage expects deal with Tories Financial Times
Costco sues Trump administration for US tariff refund
The lawsuit comes ahead of a looming Supreme Court decision about the legality of Donald Trump’s tariffs.
What is Honduras ex-president accused of and why has Trump pardoned him?
Juan Orlando Hernández, once called the key figure in a drug trafficking scheme that flooded America with over 400 tonnes of cocaine, walks free after the pardon.
Production of French-German fighter jet threatened by rivalries, chief executive says
Relations between French company Dassault and the German unit of Airbus are reportedly ‘very strained’
The leaders of France and Germany have a “strong willingness” to build a new fighter jet together despite bitter internal rivalries, according to the chief executive of engine manufacturer Safran.
A row over who should lead between French aerospace company Dassault and the German unit of Airbus has threatened to break apart the countries’ efforts to make a next-generation fighter jet.
Continue reading...Trump frees ex-Honduran president from prison as country awaits knife-edge election result
Release of convicted cocaine trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández is latest US interference in election and comes despite Trump’s apparent ‘war on drugs’
A former president of Honduras who was convicted of drug trafficking has walked free from a US prison after receiving a pardon from Donald Trump, as the country’s presidential election remained on a knife edge with the US-backed candidate leading by 515 votes.
Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for allegedly creating “a cocaine superhighway to the United States”, was released from a West Virginia prison after Trump’s intervention, Hernández’s wife confirmed on Tuesday.
Continue reading...Guinea-Bissau’s electoral commission says coup destroyed election results
Major-General Horta Inta-a was sworn in as the new transitional president on November 27.
UK government delays decision on China’s super-embassy until January
New date to approve site near Tower Bridge in London aligns with Keir Starmer’s planned visit to Beijing
The government has delayed its decision on whether to approve China’s super-embassy in London until January, when Keir Starmer is expected to visit Beijing.
Ministers are expected to greenlight the controversial plans after formal submissions by the Home Office and Foreign Office raised no objections on security grounds.
Continue reading...Sri Lanka airlifts aid to communities devastated by huge floods
The Sri Lanka Air Force is using helicopters to airlift supplies to communities cut off by mudslides and flooding.
Hong Kong residents demand answers after deadly apartment fire
Families mourning their loved ones are demanding answers as authorities investigate the cause of a fire in Hong Kong.
The Taiwan Crisis of 2025 Is Here – National Security Journal
- The Taiwan Crisis of 2025 Is Here National Security Journal
- China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation The Guardian
- How Taiwan Views the China-Japan Spat The Diplomat – Asia-Pacific Current Affairs Magazine
- Is China Preparing a Ukraine-Style Plan for Taiwan? Bloomberg.com
- Open Questions | Ex-PLA colonel Zhou Bo on Taiwan reunification, lessons from the Ukraine war South China Morning Post
After a military coup, what is next for Guinea-Bissau?
A drug trafficking hub between Latin America and Europe, what’s in store for Guinea-Bissau after the military takeover?
Quarter of police forces missing basic policies on sexual offences, says Sarah Everard report
Official report says forces in England and Wales yet to implement recommendations for investigations
A quarter of police forces in England and Wales are yet to implement “basic policies for investigating sexual offences”, an official report has found, with women still being failed despite promises of change after the murder of Sarah Everard four years ago.
The report by Dame Elish Angiolini follows an inquiry set up after Everard was murdered by a serving police officer, Wayne Couzens, in March 2021. She was abducted off a London street while walking home.
Continue reading...British women stranded by landslides in Sri Lankan mountains running out of food and water, daughter says
Friends Melanie Watters and Janine Reid have been trapped in Pussellawa since Thursday
Two British women stranded by landslides in Sri Lanka’s tea mountains are running out of food and water, the daughter of one of them has said, as officials reported that the death toll of Cyclone Ditwah has reached 465.
Melanie Watters, 54, and her friend Janine Reid, 55, both from London, were being driven through the mountains from Kandy in central Sri Lanka on Thursday when the road in front of them was swamped, sending a bus nearby over a cliff-edge.
Continue reading...Ex-PM Imran Khan healthy but cut off in Pakistan jail, sister says
Imran Khan is 'physically well' but 'very angry' about being so isolated, sibling says after visit.
Honduras election: Why has Trump threatened to cut off aid?
US president backs right-wing presidential candidate Nasry Asfura; electoral council says vote a 'technical tie' so far.
Putin Warns Russia May Hit Ukraine Allies’ Ships If Attacks Last – Bloomberg.com
- Putin Warns Russia May Hit Ukraine Allies’ Ships If Attacks Last Bloomberg.com
- Putin threatens to 'cut Ukraine off from the sea' after attacks on tankers Reuters
- Ukraine hits two Russian 'shadow fleet' oil tankers with naval drones NBC News
- A third Russian tanker attacked in the Black Sea, Turkish authority says ABC News
- Owner of Oil Tanker Damaged Near Senegal Says It Is Ceasing All Russian Operations gCaptain
Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teenagers in occupied West Bank
An Israeli drone strike in Khan Younis, Gaza also killed photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi.
CEO of $5.6 billion Swiss bank says country is still the ‘No. 1 location’ for wealth after voters reject a tax on the ultra-rich – Fortune
- CEO of $5.6 billion Swiss bank says country is still the ‘No. 1 location’ for wealth after voters reject a tax on the ultra-rich Fortune
- Switzerland votes decisively against inheritance tax The Economist
- Swiss voters reject climate tax for super-rich and compulsory civic duty Euractiv
- Swiss voters rejected a new inheritance tax, but the debate riled up the ultra-rich CNBC
- Swiss voters reject 50% inheritance tax for super-rich Financial Times
A US F-16 pilot outflew enemy missiles with extreme high-G turns for 15 minutes during a Middle East mission – Business Insider
Former EU foreign policy chief Mogherini detained in fraud probe – France 24
- Former EU foreign policy chief Mogherini detained in fraud probe France 24
- Former EU top diplomat among three held in fraud investigation The Guardian
- Police detain Federica Mogherini in EU fraud probe Financial Times
- Belgium: EPPO conducts searches at College of Europe and European External Action Service European Public Prosecutor’s Office
- Belgian police make 3 arrests after raids on college and EU diplomatic headquarters ABC News