Month: December 2025

Assertion comes after the Kremlin accused Ukraine of attacking Vladimir Putin’s palace in NovgorodDid Ukraine target Putin’s residence or is Russian claim a ploy to sway Trump?Russia said its latest nuclear-capable missile system has been deployed in Belarus, a day after Moscow claimed that Ukraine had carried out a large-scale drone attack on Vladimir Putin’s residence.Footage released by Russia’s ministry of defence showed the new Oreshnik missile trundling through a […]

This live blog is now closed. For the latest, read our full report:Russia claims to have moved nuclear-capable missile system into BelarusGermany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has echoed Donald Tusk’s optimistic tone regarding talks on ending the war in Ukraine.He posted to X to confirm there had been “another round of consultations” with “European and Canadian partners”. It is not clear who was in the meeting.Peace is on the horizon, there […]

All the updates as Nigeria reach the last 16 with a 100 percent win record in Group C, while 10-man Uganda crash out.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Critics fear the ideal of 'prosecutorial independence' has been jettisoned in favour of more partisan goals under Trump.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Elsewhere in Group C, Tanzania scrape through to the knockout stages for first time after 1-1 draw with Tunisia.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Mamdani to take oath of office on New Year’s Eve in Gilded Age subway station beneath city hallWhile tens of thousands of New Yorkers will be in Times Square for countdown to 2026, the city’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has said he will be sworn into office in an underground midnight private ceremony at an abandoned subway station built during the Gilded Age.Mamdani, 34, plans to take the oath of office […]