by lisa@patrickmarketingny.com | Dec 16, 2025 | World News
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian authorities said Tuesday they had arrested 21 people allegedly connected to a criminal network that smuggled cigarettes using specially equipped weather balloons from Russia-allied Belarus which have violated the Baltic country’s... by lisa@patrickmarketingny.com | Dec 16, 2025 | World News
LONDON (AP) — Britain on Tuesday launched a review into foreign financial interference in U.K. politics, after a British former member of the European Parliament was jailed for taking Russian bribes. Nathan Gill was sentenced last month to more than 10 years in... by lisa@patrickmarketingny.com | Dec 16, 2025 | World News
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan topped a watchlist of global humanitarian crises released Tuesday by an international aid group for the third year in a row as a devastating war grips the northeastern African country. The International Rescue Committee said Sudan was at the top... by lisa@patrickmarketingny.com | Dec 16, 2025 | World News
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union envoys worked on Tuesday to narrow gaps on a plan to use billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets as collateral for a massive loan to cover Ukraine’s economic and military needs over the next two years, ahead of a crunch summit of... by lisa@patrickmarketingny.com | Dec 16, 2025 | World News
MANILA, Dec 16 (Reuters) – The Philippines Bureau of Immigration said on Tuesday that the two alleged gunmen behind the mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach travelled to the Philippines on November 1 aboard Philippine Airlines Flight PR212 from Sydney to Manila and... by lisa@patrickmarketingny.com | Dec 16, 2025 | World News
WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Sudan has once again topped a watchlist of global humanitarian crises released by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid organization, as warring sides press on with a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people. It is...