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Hong Kong’s last major opposition party holds a final vote on Sunday on whether to disband, as China ratchets up pressure on the city’s remaining liberal voices in a years-long national security crackdown. — Reuters pic

End of an era as Hong Kong’s last major opposition party votes on disbanding after sustained security crackdown

Displaced residents at a temporary camp in Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province on December 14, 2025. — AFP pic

Border clashes grind into a second week as Cambodia and Thailand dismiss talk of a truce

A United Airlines Boeing 777 bound for Tokyo had to turn back to Washington’s Dulles International Airport on Saturday after an engine failed during takeoff, igniting a brush fire near the runway, officials said. — AFP pic

Fiery engine blast forces United Flight 803 back to Washington minutes after takeoff for Tokyo

Visitors crowd the Christmas market on the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, on December 13, 2025. — AFP pic

German police arrest five men over suspected Islamist plot to attack Christmas market in Bavaria

A police vehicle near the site of a mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, US, December 13, 2025. — Reuters pic

Brown University campus on lockdown after gunman kills two and critically injures eight

Agence France-Presse (AFP) video journalist Dylan Collins speaks about his experience being wounded during an Israeli attack on a group of seven journalists in Southern Lebanon on October 13, 2023. — AFP pic

Proposed Israeli media laws spark outrage over threat to press freedom

Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Supreme Court during an evidentiary hearing in the murder case of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, in New York, on December 12. — AFP pic

Five takeaways from evidence hearings in Manhattan insurance executive shooting case

This screen grab from a video posted by US Attorney General Pam Bondi on her X account on December 10 shows the execution of

How US targeting of Venezuela’s oil exports puts Maduro and the economy at risk

Displaced people set up a temporary camp in Banteay Meanchey province amid Cambodia-Thailand border clashes on December 13, 2025. — AFP pic

Cambodia halts all entry and exit at Thailand border as fighting continues

Damage to a casino in Pursat Province after Thai strikes amid Cambodia-Thailand border clashes on December 13, 2025. — Agence Kampuchea Press handout pic via AFP

‘Our actions this morning already spoke’: Thai jets strike against Cambodia despite Trump’s ceasefire claim

Naser Atabati, the chief justice of West Azerbaijan province – where the crime took place – said the execution was carried out at dawn on December 13, 2025, adding that Ava’s mother “had firmly demanded” retribution. — Unsplash pic

Iran hangs stepmum, convicted of killing four-year-old girl, after birth mum demanded retribution under Islamic law

File photo of Iranian rights campaigner and Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi whose whereabouts are unknown though she was reportedly arrested on December 12, 2025 after after denouncing the suspicious death of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi at his memorial ceremony in the northeastern city of Mashhad. — AFP pic/Narges Mohammadi Foundation

Where is Narges Mohammadi? Human rights groups ask Iran after Nobel laureate goes missing amid beating reports

Aerial view of uprooted trees at an Islamic boarding school after flash floods in Aceh Tamiang, northern Sumatra, Indonesia on December 10, 2025. — AFP pic

Indonesia counts losses after deadly rains and landslides kill over 1,000 in Sumatra

Bangkok’s joint press centre confirmed that Thai forces had “retaliated” against Cambodian military targets at 5:50 am (2250 Friday GMT). — AFP file pic

Thailand to continue military action on Cambodia until no more ‘threats’, says acting PM

This undated handout photograph released by the National Police of Ukraine on December 12, 2025, shows an aerial view of heavily damaged residential buildings and a church in the frontline town of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion. — AFP pic

Ukraine could join EU by January 2027 under US plan to end war with Russia

Brazil's Federal Supreme Court (STF) minister Alexandre de Moraes gestures during the voting session to convict or acquit far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) in a coup trial at the Federal Supreme Court in Brasilia on September 10, 2025. — AFP file pic

US lifts sanctions on Brazil Supreme Court justice who oversaw Bolsonaro trial