Semafor • Dec 15, 2025
East Asia’s population decline underscores global challenges
East Asia has seen births fall most, while Europe's fertility is also declining.
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Semafor • Dec 15, 2025
Kenya to sell $1.6B in assets to plug foreign aid gaps
The East African nation said it would sell almost $1.6 billion in state assets in order to plug a widening infrastructure investment gap.
Democracy Now • Dec 15, 2025
Antony Loewenstein on the Hanukkah Massacre in Sydney & the Muslim Food Vendor Who Saved Lives
At least 15 people were fatally shot during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach this Saturday, and at least another 42 people were injured, marking Australia’s worst mass shooting in nearly three decades. Victims included a 10-year-old girl, two rabbis and a Holocaust survivor who died while shielding his wife from bullets. After Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu blamed Australia’s recognition of a Palestinian state for the shooting, Antony Loewenstein, member of the Jewish Council of Australia, says the shooting is “being weaponized by the worst people imaginable to support incredibly draconian policies.”
Semafor • Dec 15, 2025
Chinese pandas to leave Japan amid diplomatic row
There will be no pandas in Japan for the first time since 1972, with the last pair set to return to China in February.
Semafor • Dec 15, 2025
Hardline conservative Kast wins Chilean election
Chile is the latest Latin American county to shift rightward after a period of leftist rule.
Semafor • Dec 15, 2025
Weak data sparks fears over state of Chinese economy
Consumption, industrial production, and investment figures all fell short of analysts’ expectations.
Semafor • Dec 15, 2025
US may deport Chinese citizen-journalist
The Chinese national fled to the US after reporting on the alleged ethnic cleansing of China’s Muslim Uyghur minority.
Semafor • Dec 15, 2025
Trump eyes Hassett, Warsh as finalists for Fed chair
Hassett is the favorite, but experts worry he would be excessively deferential to the White House.
Mother Jones • Dec 15, 2025
Trump Is Hellbent on Crushing Federal Unions, But They’re Still Kicking
Chandler Bursey used to have an office. It was a modest room at the Veterans Affairs campus in Idaho, a set of buildings nestled under one of the mountain ridges reaching into Boise. The office, a meeting place for members of the union chapter Bursey leads, was something the union had negotiated. For many years […]
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