US forces seize oil tanker off Venezuela coastTwo US officials told Reuters the operation was led by the US Coast Guard, but did not name the tanker or say specifically where the interception happened. A senior Trump administration official told Bloomberg that the US had conducted a “judicial enforcement action on a stateless vessel” that was last docked in Venezuela.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/us-forces-reportedly-seize-oil-tanker-off-venezuela-coastFormer Bolivian President Arce arrested in corruption investigationBolivian law enforcement officials on Wednesday arrested former President Luis Arce as part of a corruption investigation, the country’s vice president said on social media, opening an uncertain new chapter in Bolivia’s politics just a month after the inauguration of conservative President Rodrigo Paz ended 20 years of socialist rule.
https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-luis-arce-arrested-corruption-65566acd1d5cacbd9d650c40394da631Honduran election turmoil grows as president decries 'electoral coup'Honduran President Xiomara Castro on Tuesday denounced what she called an "electoral coup" unfolding amid a chaotic vote count from the November 30 presidential election, as hundreds of protesters gathered in the streets of the capital Tegucigalpa to demand clarity over the vote count. The election has been marked by technical failures, unsubstantiated fraud claims and a shadow cast by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has threatened to withdraw funding for the Central American nation if his preferred candidate is not successful.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-backed-asfura-leads-honduras-presidential-race-preliminary-count-nears-end-2025-12-09/Bill that could reduce Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro’s prison time advances in CongressThe bill now goes to the Senate. The bill’s centrist sponsor Paulinho da Força said it’s aimed at reconciliation and that if it’s adopted, the right-wing ex-president’s time behind bars could be reduced to two years and four months. But it would need to be sanctioned by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the leftist president has previously said he would veto it.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-bolsonaro-congress-bill-prison-time-reduction-c3126861a0b4a7c80d97177a742b4890Thousands of Iranian energy workers join largest protest in yearsWorkers from 12 South Pars refineries refused to report for duty and instead marched toward the Asaluyeh governor’s office in a rare mass demonstration over wages and job security, sources told Iran International. Despite roadblocks, security deployments, and threats issued in the days prior, the protest drew unprecedented numbers from across the gas complex.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202512093403https://archive.ph/HFbmsTrump administration issued ultimatum to ICCThe Trump administration is also demanding the ICC shelve investigations of Israeli politicians over the Gaza war, which has been recognised as a genocide by the United Nations, scholars and historians, and end an investigation into potential war crimes conducted by US troops in Afghanistan. If the ICC does not comply, it could face further sanctions against its staff and the court itself, an unnamed Trump administration official told Reuters.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-administration-ultimatum-international-criminal-court-reportUK's largest pro-Palestine prison hunger strike in decades sends activists to hospitalKamran Ahmed, who has asthma, was again rushed to hospital after he became unable to stand following nearly a month of refusing food. He has been held on remand at HMP Pentonville in England for over a year after his arrest on 19 November last year in connection with a Palestine Action protest at an Elbit Systems arms facility in Filton, Bristol, which caused more than £1 million in damage.
https://www.newarab.com/news/uk-pro-palestine-prisoners-rushed-hospital-amid-hunger-strikeAnti-bailiff protests disrupt council meetings across England and WalesCAMPAIGNERS who have piled pressure on local authorities to stop using bailiffs, staging protests at 20 council meetings in a month, warned today that more demonstrations will follow. Community union Acorn has disrupted council meetings in Cardiff, Liverpool, Oxford, Sheffield, the east London borough of Hackney and elsewhere, with more actions planned in the coming days.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/anti-bailiff-protests-disrupt-council-meetings-across-england-and-walesEU proposes loosening rules on AI gigafactories in green rollbackOther parts of the simplification plan include repealing a hazardous chemical database that lists “substances of concern in products”; removing requirements on EU polluters to have authorised representatives in member states where they sell their products; and pushing the need for environmental management systems in farms and industry from the level of plants to that of companies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/10/eu-proposes-exempting-ai-gigafactories-from-environmental-assessmentsSouth Korea's Lee calls for probe into links between religious group and politicsSome analysts have said, however, that Lee's comments appeared to be directed at the Unification Church, whose leader Han Hak-ja is currently on trial over allegations she bribed former first lady Kim Keon Hee in return for political favours. The case is part of a series of investigations by special prosecutors into ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and Kim, his wife, in the wake of Yoon's martial law order in December 2024.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-lee-calls-probe-into-links-between-religious-group-politics-2025-12-10/Starving Myanmar fighters join junta-linked group for money as ‘dirty reality’ bitesA 24-year-old fighter from Myanmar’s pro-democracy People’s Defence Force has said many of those who fight alongside him have switched sides at times in the long-running civil war, with a lack of financial compensation forcing them to temporarily side with a junta-aligned armed group.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3335695/starving-myanmar-fighters-join-junta-linked-group-money-dirty-reality-biteshttps://archive.ph/0RGaPThailand-Cambodia border clashes enter third day as 500,000 flee fightingThe Thai military also reported that rockets fired from Cambodia had landed near the Phanom Dong Rak Hospital in Surin on Wednesday morning, prompting patients and hospital staff to take cover in a bunker. In neighbouring Cambodia, “101,229 people have been evacuated to safe shelters and relatives’ homes in five provinces”, Cambodian Ministry of National Defence spokeswoman Maly Socheata said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/10/thailand-cambodia-border-clashes-enter-third-day-as-500000-flee-fightinghttps://archive.ph/k7IYe