The edition of
Saturday 20 December 2025
6 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
The United States Coast Guard intercepts and seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela after previously seizing another last week.
The United States and Jordan carry out airstrikes on 70 Islamic State targets at multiple locations in Syria, in retaliation for the December 2025 Palmyra attack.
The Law
A Pakistani court sentences former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to 17 years in prison after finding them guilty of corruption-related charges.
Science
German engineer Michaela Benthaus becomes the first person in a wheelchair and the first with paraplegia to travel to space on a sub-orbital trip conducted by Blue Origin.
Environment
Seven elephants are killed and another is injured when a passenger train strikes a herd in the Hojai district of Assam, India.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 20 December 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.