Saturday, December 20, 2025

6 stories, grouped by subject, the most important first

Conflict

  1. 2025 United States naval deployment in the Caribbean

    The United States Coast Guard intercepts and seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela after previously seizing another last week.

  2. Operation Hawkeye Strike

    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.

Crime & Justice

  1. Arrest of Imran Khan

    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.

  2. Justice

    Iran executes a man convicted of spying for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad in Urmia.

Disasters

  1. Disasters

    Seven elephants are killed and another is injured when a passenger train strikes a herd in the Hojai district of Assam, India.

Science & Tech

  1. Blue Origin NS-37

    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.

Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for December 20, 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.