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Algerian legislators are poised to vote on a proposed bill that seeks to criminalize France's colonial rule in Algeria amid heightened diplomatic tensions with Paris.

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Haiti Libre digital newspaper remembered that a donor conference was held in New York, United States, and 18 participants are committed to providing personnel, resources, and technical support.

Several African countries lead the list of nations committed to the FSP, an initiative that, if implemented, will contribute to pacifying Haiti.

Chad and Bangladesh offered to deploy soldiers, engineers, and police officers to assist Haitian security forces. Chad stated it would contribute 1,500 uniformed personnel.

Le Nouvelliste newspaper informed that other pledges came from Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, and Gambia in West Africa, as well as Burundi in East Africa.

Canada will contribute an additional 40 million US dollars to the Trust Fund, provide personnel, and promise a greater focus on the protection of women and young people.

Five other countries, which were not named, pledged to provide the FSP with more than 3,500 men, primarily military personnel.

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The Central Committee elected at the Congress, in its first meeting, elected the 18-member Executive Committee, led by Andrade.

Guillermo Rehermann was confirmed as an organizer, and Representative Ana Olivera was appointed head of Political Unity.

Juan Castillo, former General Secretary and Labor and Social Security Minister, will assume responsibility for International Relations.

Marcelo Abad, president of the PIT-CNT trade union, will lead the Secretariat of Union Affairs, while Viviana Rodriguez will be in charge of the Secretariat of Gender Affairs, among other appointments.

Natalia Diaz, recently elected general secretary of the Union of Communist Youth (UJC), was confirmed leading the organization.

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A statement released by Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez pointed out that the robbery was committed by US military personnel in international waters.

She affirmed that this serious act of piracy “constitutes the flagrant commission of the crime stipulated in Article 3 of the 1988 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, as well as a gross violation of Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations.”

The statement added that it also violates Article 2 of the Geneva Convention on the High Seas and the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States, among other applicable norms of international law.

She stated that the colonialist model the United States government seeks to impose through these practices “will fail and be defeated by the Venezuelan people.”

Venezuela, she asserted, will continue its economic growth, based on its 14 economic engines and the independent and sovereign development of its hydrocarbon industry.

The Bolivarian Republic reaffirmed that these acts will not go unpunished and will take all appropriate actions, including filing complaints with the United Nations Security Council, other multilateral organizations, and governments around the world.

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In a statement, the Federation clarified that although the invitation originated in Venezuela, the original host of this edition, it was endorsed by the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation (CBPC), the tournament’s governing body, of which Cuba is a founding member. According to the statement, the CBPC has not communicated with the Cuban Baseball and Softball Federation “regarding such an important decision, which undermines the established commitments and the format approved by our country to participate.”

The Federation emphasized that the change of venue does not justify Cuba’s non-participation, and that the country deserves and demands respectful treatment, especially given the sensitive nature of the situation for Cuban sports. The CBPC announced that the winter classic, scheduled for February 1-7, will be held in Guadalajara, after approving the proposal submitted by the ARCO Mexican Pacific League, spearheaded by the Charros de Jalisco organization.

The change came after Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic withdrew from the originally planned venue of Greater Caracas, citing logistical reasons unrelated to the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.

The loss of Greater Caracas as the venue for the Caribbean classic occurs within a context of US military harassment, aggression, and encirclement of the Bolivarian Republic, whose president, Donald Trump, recently expressed his intentions to seize the oil and other resources of the South American nation.

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Honduras electoral fraud 2025 deepens as military threats against vote verifiers and U.S. meddling cast doubt on the legitimacy of the November 30 elections.

Related: EU Flags “Intentional Paralysis” in Honduras Vote Count

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The Honduras electoral fraud 2025 scandal has intensified after members of electoral verification panels came forward with harrowing accounts of military intimidation during the special vote recount process. According to multiple testimonies, soldiers stationed at counting centers in Tegucigalpa and other cities verbally assaulted and threatened to arrest party representatives if they submitted “zero-vote” tally sheets or reported discrepancies—acts that are fully legal under Honduran electoral law.

In a widely circulated video shared by members of the left-wing Libre Party, representatives described how, upon entering verification facilities, they were confronted by armed military personnel who ordered them: “Do not send null votes or zero acts—or you will be taken from the table and jailed immediately.”

This account has been corroborated by 200 members of the center-right Liberal Party, who reported nearly identical threats from a military officer overseeing their recount table. The officer allegedly claimed they “had no authority” to issue zero-vote reports—even though such actions are protected by the National Electoral Council’s protocols when vote tallies cannot be verified due to missing signatures, mismatched voter logs, or other irregularities.

“The vote is defended with the law, not with fear,” declared one female verification panel member. “Elections are guaranteed through transparency, not intimidation. Democracy is not locked up, silenced, or threatened—it is respected.”

🚨 URGENTE | El @PLHonduras denuncia amenazas y coacción militar contra sus 200 representantes en el #CLE durante el escrutinio especial.

Señalan injerencia castrense (@FFAAHN) y sesgo político que pone en riesgo la transparencia electoral. @teleSURtv pic.twitter.com/hLpJUTwvJU

— Karim Duarte (@karimtelesurtv) December 21, 2025

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Honduras Electoral Fraud 2025: Military Overreach and the Erosion of Democratic Safeguards

Under Honduran law, the Armed Forces have no role in electoral decision-making. Article 1 of the Constitutional Law of the Armed Forces explicitly mandates that their sole function during elections is to “guarantee the security of personnel, materials, and facilities”—not to influence outcomes or police the actions of autonomous electoral workers.

Yet in this case, military personnel allegedly crossed a red line: not only did they issue threats, but they also misrepresented legal procedures, claiming that zero-vote acts were illegal when, in fact, they are a standard tool used globally to flag compromised or unverifiable polling stations.

The Special Verification and Recount Board—tasked with auditing contested results from the November 30, 2025, general elections—has full authority to issue zero acts when a majority of its members agree that vote integrity cannot be confirmed. This includes situations where ballot logs don’t match, voter signatures are missing, or the official incident report documents coercion or tampering.

Read the Organization of American States’ 2025 preliminary report on Honduras elections

By intimidating electoral workers, the military appears to have actively obstructed transparency mechanisms—a move that many observers now describe as part of a coordinated electoral coup. Marlon Ochoa, a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE), has refused to certify the results, stating: “My duty is to represent the interests of the Honduran people, not those of a foreign government.” His stance reflects growing internal resistance to what critics call U.S.-backed election engineering.

Indeed, since the 2009 U.S.-supported coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, Honduras has become a testing ground for hybrid regime-change tactics: economic pressure, judicial persecution of opposition leaders, and now, the weaponization of security forces during vote counting. This latest episode suggests that formal democracy is being replaced by managed outcomes.

Review UN Human Rights Office statement on civic space and electoral integrity in Honduras

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Geopolitical Context: U.S. Hegemony and the Crisis of Legitimacy in Central America

The Honduras electoral fraud 2025 cannot be understood in isolation. It is the latest chapter in a long-standing pattern of U.S. intervention in Central America—where Washington has historically treated the region as its “backyard,” rewarding compliant regimes and undermining those that pursue independent policies.

In recent months, U.S. officials have publicly endorsed preliminary results favoring pro-Washington candidates, despite mounting evidence of irregularities. Meanwhile, U.S. agencies have funded partisan NGOs and media outlets that dismiss fraud allegations as “conspiracy theories”—a familiar playbook used in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua.

Regionally, the crisis threatens to destabilize an already fragile Central America. With migration flows to the U.S. surging, Washington has a vested interest in installing a government in Tegucigalpa that will criminalize migration, accept deported citizens, and grant military access—all while suppressing social movements demanding land reform, anti-corruption measures, and environmental justice.

The stakes are especially high because Honduras sits at the geopolitical crossroads of the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the United States. Control over its ports, airspace, and political orientation has strategic value for both hemispheric powers and emerging global actors like China, which has recently expanded trade and infrastructure ties with the Libre Party-led government.

Explore the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ warnings on militarization of elections

If certified under duress, the current election results would set a dangerous precedent: that military intimidation can override democratic will. This would not only delegitimize Honduras’s government domestically but also weaken regional bodies like SICA (Central American Integration System), which rely on mutual recognition of electoral processes.

For the people of Honduras—who have endured decades of coups, narco-politics, and poverty—the message is clear: their votes matter only when they align with foreign interests. Yet resistance persists. From rural communities to urban youth collectives, civil society is demanding that the recount proceed without coercion, with international oversight, and with full respect for the law.

As one Libre Party representative put it: “We are not afraid of jail. We are afraid of silence.”

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Donald Trump’s move labelling fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction” is unlikely to disrupt Sino-US relations, but it expands Washington’s China policy toolbox and could inject uncertainty in ties over the long term, according to analysts. On Monday, the American president signed an executive order designating illicit fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, as a weapon of mass destruction, calling the drug “closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic”. Without naming names, the order highlighted...

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In the early 2020s, the planet found itself in the grip of a virus which spread like wildfire. That virus was the misogynistic gospel of Andrew Tate, and the people who found themselves infected were young boys the world over.

Having felt his fame and popularity slip somewhat, Tate decided to do something drastic to prove he’s still the pinnacle of toxic masculinity.

There’s just one problem with that:

Andrew Tate just got his ass kicked, because of course he did.

As it turns out, he can only physically beat up women. pic.twitter.com/XXvVpDTTOW

— Johnny Loveless (@JohnnyLoveless) December 21, 2025

Andrew Tate: man down

Before he was an international man of misogyny, Andrew Tate was a kick boxer and an arsehole. He was famous on British Twitter long before the rest of the world knew him, and by that we mean ‘famously repellant’ – i.e. he tweeted stuff like this:

Next point, if you put yourself in a position to be raped, you must bare some responsibility. I’m not saying it’s OK you got raped.

He was banned from Twitter, but Elon Musk reinstated his account after purchasing the platform. This is why we get to see him tweeting out excuses today:

99.9% of 40 year old men with 700 million dollars sit around with whores.

I could have done the same and talked shit on the Internet and took no risks and just lived easy.

In my heart I knew I’m too old.

I knew I’d been out too long.

That’s why I had to do it.

To face… pic.twitter.com/pgZC203y4y

— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) December 21, 2025

You’re supposed to be the ‘Top G’ – not the ‘Runner Up G’.

Do you really think your supporters are interested in watching a middle-aged man get the shit kicked out of him?

How is Andrew Tate charging $5k plus travel and hotel for fight camp when he's fighting like this?

— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) December 20, 2025

We’re getting ahead of ourselves, however; we haven’t even shown you what the beating looked like yet:

Both Jake Paul & Andrew Tate (Top G) have lost their fights this weekend

Boxing is healing, the world is healing pic.twitter.com/0xtWvbeUqb

— EMPIRE (@AniEMPIRE) December 20, 2025

The guy that Tate fought was Chase DeMoor, who’s best known for appearing on reality dating shows:

Your “Top G” Andrew Tate got his ass handed to him by a “Too Hot To Handle” Netflix star.

2025 what a year. pic.twitter.com/1FMJLR5kGi

— J (@ArneSlotMachine) December 20, 2025

While DeMoor has fought before, he’s not particularly well regarded, as this video demonstrates:

Imagine watching your hero Andrew Tate get battered by this guy and still call him "Top G"pic.twitter.com/X3xcGMRKno

— Omnitrix (@TLOmnitrix) December 20, 2025

No offence to DeMoor, of course; dating shows are perfectly watchable, and we have nothing but respect for the way he handled Tate. The point is everyone thinks Andrew Tate picked DeMoor because he wasn’t a serious opponent:

Wait, Andrew Tate hand-picked his opponent as an easy win, and he still did this to him? Haha. pic.twitter.com/D1b8swfMQM

— Oliver (@OWS1892) December 21, 2025

There were other great shots of Tate’s clownfall too:

Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor pic.twitter.com/9bK5t4z4DZ

— Gadget (@Gadget440) December 20, 2025

Andrew Tate finding out beating fighters his own size isn’t as easy as beating trafficked Eastern European women pic.twitter.com/NLqzJVlY9q

— Roy Drones Jr (@chiweethedog) December 20, 2025

At least Andrew Tate didn’t have his jaw broken like Jake Paul. Mainly because he doesn’t have one. pic.twitter.com/W4Zv420o95

— Quadcarl (@Quadcarl) December 21, 2025

Lover boy bye bye

While it’s good to ridicule Andrew Tate, it’s important to remember he’s not just someone who the internet loves to hate. Tate allegedly committed a string of violent crimes against women; crimes which he’s literally described in his own words:

Recruiting women solely to “make them fall in love” in order to control them and force them to work on webcam or OnlyFans is human trafficking. pic.twitter.com/6EumrPcxnF

— Murdered By Crayons (@CrayonMurders) March 6, 2025

Andrew Tate is on camera/audio admitting to:
-violently raping a woman
-violently strangling a woman
-having sex with a 16 year old when he was an adult

Is under investigation for:
-human trafficking of minors with 6 potential victims

Jordan Peterson: pic.twitter.com/XRNoXlYvgy

— The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) (@theserfstv) January 12, 2023

Andrew Tate and his brother were on trial in Romania for human trafficking, and texts from the Top G suggest it was Donald Trump who helped him wriggle out of accountability:

NYT-reviewed texts describe Andrew Tate anticipating Trump administration help as he sought to leave Romania, where he and his brother Tristan have been under investigation since 2022. Prosecutors later lifted travel restrictions.https://t.co/1Rm0lI3mjk… pic.twitter.com/82k2O8hRq1

— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) December 20, 2025

Where are the anti-rape gang people like Tommy Robinson when you need them?

Oh yeah, that’s right, Robinson has actually defended this guy, as we reported:

Tommy Robinson: "Save women from rapists!"

Lauren Southern: "Andrew Tate raped me"

Tommy: "You're a lying whore" pic.twitter.com/BVTwS8TBuK

— TakedownMRAs (@TakedownMRAs) July 19, 2025

All that aside, it’s heartwarming to see people like Andrew Tate and Jake Paul getting what they deserve this Christmas – i.e. knocked the fuck out.

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Although Morocco is officially the biggest winner of the FIFA Qatar 2025 Arab Cup after winning the title, and with Mohamed Rabie Hrimat winning the Best Player award, Mehdi Benabid winning Best Goalkeeper, and Abdelrazak Hamdallah winning Man of the Match in the final, anyone who followed the Palestinian team knows that they are the biggest winners in terms of historic achievements and inspiring moments during the tournament.

The Palestinian team are the real winners

Palestine began their journey with an exciting victory over Libya in the qualifiers on penalties, before reaching the quarter-finals, where they bid farewell to the Arab Cup after an epic clash with Saudi Arabia that ended 2-1 after extra time. Sports journalist Uday Kharoub said that the Saudi team ‘stole the victory’ from Palestine, referring to the strength of Palestine’s performance and its ability to compete with one of the strongest teams in the tournament until the last minute.

Much of the credit goes to coach Ihab Abu Jazar, who led a fierce team that achieved many surprises, starting with a 1-0 victory over host Qatar, followed by forcing Tunisia to a 2-2 draw after the Eagles of Carthage took a two-goal lead, and then a goalless draw with Syria, confirming that Palestine had come to challenge and not just to participate.

After their historic qualification for the round of 16 in the 2023 Asian Cup, Palestine continued to make history in the Arab Cup, not only qualifying for the quarter-finals, but also topping Group A, recording their best ever achievement in the knockout stages of major tournaments.

Unforgettable historical moments at the Arab Cup

Palestine’s journey in the Arab Cup can be summarised in several key points:

The joy of the Gaza crowds:

Despite the suffering of war and difficult conditions, videos and photos emerged from Palestinian tents and neighbourhoods documenting unprecedented joy, with celebrations and cheers filled with joy amid Palestinian flags raised on roads and squares. These moments showed how the team was able to give Palestinians a sense of unity and hope, and bring smiles amid a reality full of daily challenges and difficulties.

Widespread global interaction:

Despite the participation of many teams, none of them received the same attention as Palestine, which dominated global headlines, with the media and social networking sites discussing the team’s achievements and surprises, reinforcing its status as an example of Palestinian will and determination.

Strong competition with Saudi Arabia:

Palestine showed its ability to compete until the last moment in the quarter-finals, with observers describing it as a strong opponent for the Saudi team, reflecting the team’s improved performance and the professionalism of its players.

Statements by national team goalkeeper Rami Hamada, in which he referred to his participation in the tournament despite not being affiliated with any club at the time, and his training with Qatar’s Al-Markhiya Club in preparation for the Arab Cup, reflecting the players’ commitment and readiness for the history made by the team.

An upward trend… towards a golden generation

At a time when many teams have emerged from the Arab Cup with significant gains, the Palestinian team’s upward performance from the Asian Cup to the Arab Cup proves that the Fedayeen are undergoing an unprecedented phase of development, opening the door to the possibility of a ‘golden generation’ of Palestinian football in the coming period.

Palestine undoubtedly left the tournament with a wealth of achievements and historic moments that prove it to be one of the most inspiring and distinguished teams in the 2025 Arab Cup.

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By Alaa Shamali

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