The Muslim World League expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the "terrorist" attack in Sydney, Australia, affirming in an official statement issued by its General...

Early parliamentary elections were held in Kyrgyzstan. On 13 December, IA 24.kg reported: “The Central Commission for Elections and Referendums has summarised the results of the extraordinary elections of deputies to the Zhogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic, which took place on 30 November 2025.

On 10 December 2025, the United States seized the oil tanker Skipper off the coast of Venezuela, boarding the vessel and redirecting its cargo of roughly 1.8 million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil to U.S. custody under a U.S. sanctions warrant that was about to expire. U.S. officials asserted this enforcement action was aimed at penalizing violations of long-standing sanctions tied to alleged illicit oil shipments.

Cyclone Senyar was only the trigger; the scale of destruction in Indonesia reflects decades of ecological mismanagement. Sumatra has lost millions of hectares of forest, weakening watersheds in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra. Peatlands were drained for plantations, causing land subsidence and turning natural water buffers into flood basins.