North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Sunday, its neighbors said, just hours before South Korea’s president left for China for talks expected to cover North Korea’s nuclear program. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement it detected several ballistic missile launches from North Korea’s capital region around 7:50 a.m. It said the missiles flew about 900 kilometers (560 miles) and that South Korea and U.S. authorities were analyzing details of the launches. South Korea’s Defense Ministry noted the launches violated U.N. Security Council resolutions that ban any ballistic activities by North Korea. It...
Pakistan And China Call For ‘Visible And Verifiable’ Steps Against Afghan-Based Terror Groups
Pakistan and China called for more “visible and verifiable” steps to eliminate terrorist organizations based in Afghanistan and to prevent Afghan territory from being used for militancy against any country, according to a joint statement. The statement issued Monday followed talks between Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, who met in Beijing on Dec. 4. The two countries said “terrorist groups operating from Afghanistan continue to pose serious threats to regional and global security and stressed the need to prevent them from using Afghan soil to carry out attacks against other countries.” There was no...
Trial Begins For Officer Accused Of Failing To Protect Children During Uvalde School Shooting
One of the first police officers to respond to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, goes on trial Monday on charges that he failed to protect children during the attack, when authorities waited more than an hour to confront the gunman. Adrian Gonzales, a former Uvalde schools officer, faces 29 counts of child abandonment or endangerment in a rare prosecution of an officer accused of not doing more to stop a crime and protect lives. The teenage gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary in one of deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Nearly 400 officers...
Guinea’s Junta Leader Is Confirmed President-Elect After First Vote Since A 2021 Coup
The Supreme Court in Guinea on Sunday upheld the election victory of Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya, cementing the junta leader’s transition to a democratically elected president four years after staging a coup in the West African nation. Doumbouya won the country’s first election since the 2021 coup after polling 86.7% of the votes, according to the General Directorate of Elections. His victory, which had been predicted by analysts, was confirmed by the Supreme Court in the capital Conakry. “Today, there are neither winners nor losers. There is only one Guinea, united and indivisible,” Doumbouya said in a broadcast late Sunday, calling...
A Paris Court Finds 10 People Guilty Of Cyberbullying France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron
A Paris court on Monday found 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, by spreading false online claims about her gender and sexuality, including allegations she was born a man. One defendant was sentenced to six months in prison, while eight were handed suspended sentences between two and eight months. All 10 were mandated to attend cyberbullying awareness training. The court pointed to “particularly degrading, insulting, and malicious” comments referring to false claims regarding alleged trans identity and alleged pedo criminality targeting Brigitte Macron. “Repeated publications have had cumulative harmful effects,” the court said. The defendants, eight...
Trump Says That Ukraine Didn’t Target Putin Residence In A Drone Strike As Kremlin Claims
President Donald Trump on Sunday told reporters that U.S. officials have determined that Ukraine did not target a residence belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack last week, disputing Kremlin claims that Trump had initially greeted with deep concern. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov last week said Ukraine launched a wave of drones at Putin’s state residence in the northwestern Novgorod region that the Russian defense systems were able to defeat. Lavrov also criticized Kyiv for launching the attack at a moment of intensive negotiations to end the war. The allegation came just a day after Ukrainian...
Daily FX Rate for Monday, December 6, 2026.
NGN → USD Rates NFEM (Official) Rate Official Market: Parallel Market: Market Drivers: Market watchers link the slower divergence to tighter monetary controls and reduced speculative activity. Market analysts note that the volume of liquidity in the official window remains a key factor in price discovery as the government continues its efforts to unify exchange rates. OUTLOOK:Manufacturers and importers seeking to replenish stocks for early 2026 are increasing pressure on the dollar. Additionally, investors are keeping a close eye on the CBN’s foreign reserve levels and any potential interventions in the market to provide liquidity.
Cuba Confirms 32 Military And Intelligence Officers Killed During Maduro’s Capture.
Cuban government has said 32 of its citizens had been killed in the US attacks in Venezuela, including military or intelligence personnel, a rare public signal of Cuba’s importance to Venezuela and the Maduro government. According to Cuban state media, President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba said the casualties were personnel from the country’s armed forces or its interior ministry who were on a mission at the request of Venezuela, “Our compatriots fulfilled their duty with dignity and heroism and fell, after fierce resistance, in direct combat against the attackers or as a result of the bombings,” Mr. Díaz-Canel said. He announced two days...
Severe Snow And Ice Force Amsterdam Schiphol To Cancel Over 450 Flights.
Snowfall disrupted air, train and road traffic in the Netherlands on Monday, as hundreds of flights were cancelled and all trains around Amsterdam came to a standstill. Amsterdam Schiphol airport, one of Europe’s busiest hubs, cancelled almost 500 flights on Monday morning and expected that number to rise throughout the day. The airport had already been forced to scrap hundreds of flights a day since Friday, due to snow and icy temperatures. The snow which covered large parts of the Netherlands on Monday morning also crippled traffic, as no trains were operating in the region around Amsterdam and public transport...
Former Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro In US Custody After Caracas Raid
U.S. forces airstrike Venezuelan targets and captured Nicolás Maduro in a raid on Caracas, on January 3, over narco-terrorism charges—and killing around 80 people, including Cuban personnel. President Trump confirmed the raid, dubbed Operation Absolute Resolve, as a move to enforce the Monroe Doctrine against Maduro’s ties to China, Russia, and Iran, plus U.S. indictments for narco-terrorism and cocaine trafficking. Trump, en route from Mar-a-Lago on January 4, stated the U.S. is ‘in charge,’ promising American oil firms would rebuild infrastructure and extract reserves without taxpayer funds. The Venezuela’s president and wife face arraignment Monday in Manhattan federal court, following...