DAILY NEWS Stream – December 23, 2025

The US Congress permanently repeals the 2019 Caesar Act sanctions on Syria. Syria’s new government welcomes the decision as a turning point for reconstruction and renewed international cooperation after years of conflict (Báo Tin tức)

Syria and France hold talks on expanding tourism cooperation, focusing on cultural tourism, heritage preservation, investment opportunities, and workforce training (Travel and Tour World)

Peru and the United States incinerate more than 8.8 tons of seized drugs in Lima as part of joint anti-narcotics cooperation (Andina)

France’s Interior Ministry suffers a multi-day cyberattack that breached email accounts and allowed hackers to access sensitive police databases, including criminal records and wanted-person files (euronews)

US authorities raid the Puente-13 gang in California, arresting 16 members and seizing 71 guns, drugs, cash, and stolen property. The crackdown follows a three-year investigation targeting one of the San Gabriel Valley region’s most violent criminal networks (VNExpress)

The US Treasury sanctions the Mexican “Cartel de Santa Rosa de Lima” and its leader El Marro, freezing assets, blocking transactions, and cutting the group off from the US financial system. The cartel’s fuel-theft empire escalates violence in Mexico’s Guanajuato state and cross-border oil smuggling (US Department of the Treasury)

Trump Media, best known for running US President Donald Trump’s social platform Truth Social, announces a US$6 billion all-stock merger with nuclear fusion startup TAE Technologies. The deal pivots the company beyond social media, taking TAE public and funding aneutronic fusion development (New York Post)

The European Commission approves a €4.1 billion Hungarian State aid scheme to expand cleantech manufacturing under the Clean Industrial Deal (European Commission)

The European Commission approves a €1.6 billion German scheme to install 1,410 fast-charging points for electric heavy-duty vehicles at over 120 motorway rest sites (European Commission)

Taiwan (Formosa) eliminates Hepatitis C five years ahead of global targets, exceeding the World Health Organization [WHO] “Gold Tier” standards. President Lai Ching-te credits integrated screening and treatment for the success (Business Wire)

The World Health Organization’s [WHO’s] Global Traditional Medicine Summit in New Delhi [India] focuses on guiding decisions in traditional medicine practice through science-based evidence standards. Leaders from 100 countries also discuss integrating indigenous practices into national healthcare systems to address global health gaps and rising diseases (Sức khỏe & Đời sống)

Scientists report a breakthrough as CAR-T [Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell therapy] cancer-fighting cells are programmed directly inside patients’ bodies. This innovative approach eliminates laboratory manufacturing, slashing costs and accelerating access to lifesaving immunotherapy treatments (Good News Network)

New research warns a major solar storm could collapse global satellite networks in three days. Rapid debris chain reactions threaten 14,000 satellites, potentially crippling worldwide communications and navigation infrastructure (Thanh Niên)

Heavy rains lash the United Arab Emirates, forcing dozens of flight cancellations at Dubai and Sharjah airports. The Dubai Police urge residents to stay home as emergency crews battle flooding on major national roadways (Naharnet)

Japan’s shifting Kuroshio Current triggers extreme marine heatwaves and abnormal sea-level changes off the nation’s coast. Scientists warn that the nearly 500-kilometer northward shift, fueled by climate change, intensifies rainfall and threatens coastal stability (Thanh Niên)

Sweden opens Europe’s first parking garage built using recycled wind-turbine blades (Báo Pháp Luật Việt Nam)

Belgium is testing “dune-by-dike” systems that pair engineered sand dunes with existing dikes to protect its low-lying coast from storms and rising seas (Monga Bay)

A Georgia [US] man, Dun Bradford, is convicted on 69 federal counts for operating a major dog-fighting operation, manufacturing drugs, and possessing firearms. Authorities rescued 67 abused dog-people from his property, many injured and neglected. The case involved multiple agencies and dismantled a long-running dog-fighting enterprise. Bradford faces up to life in prison (US Department of Justice)

Three men in Sri Lanka are arrested after a viral video showed them setting a wounded wild elephant-person on fire, sparking national outrage (Daily Mail)

Two teenagers in Kirstenhof [South Africa] face animal-people-cruelty charges after a dog-person was found with a knife lodged in its nose (Eyewitness News)

On December 19, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 273.6 million kilometers, as scientists debate its mysterious signal pulses. While NASA [US National Aeronautics and Space Administration] labels the comet natural, some researchers are tracking a rhythmic “heartbeat” of light that it pulses in a regular pattern (Daily Mail)

NASA’s MAVEN [Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN] spacecraft’s data reveal solar winds stripped the Martian atmosphere for billions of years, causing surface water to vanish. Evidence confirms a wet, habitable past before atmospheric collapse turned Mars red (Earth.com)

Scientists engineer, for the first time, CAR (Chimeric Antigen Receptor) T-cells inside patients’ bodies, directly targeting multiple myeloma cancer without lab processing. Early trials show several patients becoming cancer-free or entering remission with manageable side effects (Good News Network)

Brazil’s Typcal launches South America’s first large-scale mycoprotein plant in Pinhais. The US$1.81 million facility scales mycelium production for global markets, providing sustainable protein ingredients for vegan food systems (Vegconomist)

Cooking school COOK! Manchester [Manchester, UK] slashes prices by 20% for Veganuary 2026. Partnering with the Vegetarian Society, the school offers immersive vegan and vegetarian workshops ranging from Asian cuisine to protein-packed staples, making sustainable cooking accessible for all skill levels (Retail Times)

Vegfest Free will bring the UK’s largest free vegan festival to Birmingham in April 2026, featuring up to 170 vegan stalls, live music, family activities and over 30 speakers (BirminghamWorld)

President Trump signs the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act that includes a provision enacting a historic ban on using live animal-people as targets for military medical training drills to teach treating human battlefield injuries. The law mandates human-simulation alternatives, ending decades of controversial animal-person use across all US military branches (PETA)

Rescue and sanctuary Care Fur Life volunteers save dozens of animal-people from rising floodwaters at Briscot Farm in Kent, Washington [US]. The overnight evacuation saves 22 animal-persons, including pig-, dog-, and horse-persons, and 20 bird-folk (Kent Reporter)

First responders in Ithaca, New York [US] rescue a deer-person stranded on an icy inlet, using specialized ice-rescue gear to slide the struggling animal to safety. Footage of the rescue went viral, with the public praising the officers’ compassion and teamwork (knewz)

What I want to say is that darkness was pressing, and I was in the middle of this sphere, and I didn’t understand why and how this darkness existed. Where was I? And I understood I didn’t have a body because I didn’t feel it, but then I thought about light. Georgian psychiatrist and former atheist Dr. George Rodonaia shares how the former Soviet Union’s KGB [security agency] murdered him for trying to defect, leaving him dead in a freezer for three days before returning to life during his own autopsy. George, a neuropathologist and psychiatrist working in Soviet Georgia in 1976, had never believed in God or the Bible. At 20, already a practicing doctor, he worked on adenosine triphosphate (ATP) — a neurotransmitter in the brain—and made significant discoveries in conjunction with oxytocin. When a woman from Texas [US] offered to help him leave the country, the KGB decided he knew too much to be allowed to defect.

I was standing on the sidewalk ready to depart to New York [US], waiting for a cab, when a car ran on the sidewalk and hit me. I flew 10 meters, and I fell, and the car ran over me. My friends and relatives took me to the hospital, and the hospital staff, friends of mine, and two other professors declared me dead. They put me in the morgue in a freezer, and three days later, they took me out on Monday. It was Friday night, and on Monday morning, they began my autopsy. What happened during those three days changed everything George thought he knew about reality.

These three days being out of my body, seeing everything, what was happening around, seeing myself, my body, seeing my birth, my parents, my wife, my child, my friends— I saw their thoughts. I saw what they were thinking, how their thoughts moved from one to another dimension. It was an incredible experience. I was in darkness, in total darkness, and this darkness was pressing. This darkness existed not beyond but existed within. What I want to say is that darkness was pressing, and I was in the middle of this sphere. And I didn’t understand why and how this darkness existed. Where was I? And I understood I didn’t have a body because I didn’t feel it, but then I thought about the light. I went through that little hall into the light, but the light was more powerful, more burning. I mean, you cannot compare it to anything, and no word can explain it. And then this light was so burning and going through flesh, but I didn’t have a body— that was the most interesting part. And I was scared of that light. I thought, “Where is that hall to darkness? Go to the shade to save myself from this light.” What is that light? I don’t know. I mean, it can be called the light of God, we can call it the light of life, but light is light, and darkness is darkness.

Then, as doctors began his autopsy on Monday morning, George returned to life. To begin the autopsy, they began to cut my chest, that was the first incision. Then I opened my eyes. So, when I opened the eyes, and he saw the pupils were convulsing, becoming smaller—to say simply, he saw that it was reacting to light, it means it’s life. And they put me back into the hospital and began resuscitation. Life came back, and what they discovered was that life was there during the autopsy, but it wasn’t that all organs worked. I mean it was hard work for nine months being under recovery. After finally recovering, George succeeded in defecting to Texas with help from the same woman. The experience completely transformed his worldview.

When I came back to life, a lot of different experiences happened, and I experienced a lot of rejection, a lot of fights with the reality of others. But nothing could change my mind. I knew my destination, I knew my way. Sometimes things are beyond our grasp, but I don’t try to explain it all, because I know — and I believe — that God knows better. And I believe that I don’t need it to be explained. Why was it shown to me? Why was it me that was chosen to be? It wasn’t a question, and I don’t care about that, honestly. I care that it was. I deeply believe in God of love, and God is Love. And I believe that God created everything for the better and for an incredible, incredible future if we don’t ruin it.

Uplifting quote of the day: “Thinking will not overcome fear but action will” - W. Clement Stone American Businessman, Philanthropist, and Self-help Author