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1. Son of filmmaker Rob Reiner charged with murder in parents’ deaths

   The son of Hollywood actor and filmmaker Rob Reiner has been charged with the murder of his parents after they were found dead in their home over the weekend, the Los Angeles Police Department said on Monday. Nick Reiner, 32, who has struggled with substance abuse, was arrested on Sunday night and is being held in prison with no bail, the police department said in a press release. Jail documents...

2. Why ‘relative stability’ in US-China ties is unlikely to last

   It has been a turbulent year for the fraught US-China relationship. In a new series, we look back at the events of 2025, starting with the geopolitical struggle between the two rival superpowers. In a year marked by domestic crises and global turmoil, Washington and Beijing are set to end 2025 with a fragile truce after they stepped back from the brink of full-blown tariff warfare – but deeper...

3. ‘No bomb does what this is doing’: Trump calls fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction

   US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order (EO) designating illicit fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid driving the US overdose crisis, as a weapon of mass destruction. The EO issued by the White House asserted that “Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic” due to its extreme potency. “Two milligrams, an almost undetectable trace amount equivalent to...

4. In France, China sees a civilisational partner in a polarised world

   Constructed around 256 BC, Dujiangyan is the world’s oldest irrigation system that is still in use today. Long before the invention of gunpowder, the system was using natural topographic and hydrological features to divert water from the Min River for irrigation and flood control without the use of dams. To this day, the ecological engineering feat irrigates 668,700 hectares of farmland in the...

5. US officials say Washington has agreed to give Ukraine security guarantees in peace talks

   The US has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia’s nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend, US officials said on Monday following the latest discussions with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin. The officials said talks with US President Donald Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, led to narrowing...

6. Russia has thrust world into new ‘age of uncertainty’, says UK’s new spy chief

   Russia has propelled the world into an “age of uncertainty” and the UK is now operating in “a space between peace and war”, Britain’s new MI6 spy chief said on Monday. “Let’s be in no doubt. Our world is more dangerous and contested now than it has been for decades,” Blaise Metreweli, the first woman to lead the MI6 Secret Intelligence Service, warned. “Conflict is evolving and trust eroding,...

7. Mexico stands by 50 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods, says move will protect 350,000 jobs

   Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard on Monday defended Mexico’s decision to impose new tariffs on imports from China and other Asian countries, describing the move as a necessary step to protect hundreds of thousands of domestic jobs rather than a provocation to any trading partner. The tariff package, approved by Congress last week, will take effect on January 1 and introduce duties ranging from...

8. Trump condemned for saying filmmaker Rob Reiner brought on his own murder

   US President Donald Trump faced a storm of condemnation on Monday after posting what critics described as “perverse” and “sick” remarks suggesting Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered because of the celebrated filmmaker’s criticism of the president. As tributes for Reiner poured in from celebrities and film world figures, Trump used his Truth Social platform to launch a crude attack on the...

9. FBI arrests 4 suspects in New Year’s Eve terror plot targeting California

   Federal authorities on Monday announced the arrests of four alleged members of an extremist group who are suspected of planning coordinated bombing attacks on New Year’s Eve across Southern California. Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed the FBI has foiled a bomb plot targeting multiple targets, including immigration agents and vehicles, in Los Angeles and Orange County. “The Turtle Island...

10. Jimmy Lai trial: Post sketches offer public a glimpse of courtroom moments

    Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has been found guilty on all three charges after a landmark national security trial, nearly five years after he was first denied bail following his arrest. The 78-year-old businessman turned opposition activist, who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily tabloid, was convicted on Monday of two charges of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and a...