As Moscow asserts complete control over the eastern Ukrainian city, a flag is raised over Pokrovsk in surveillance footage. However, as fighting continues, Ukraine insists it is still in control of the north, continues to attack south, and has secured important logistics links.
Published On 3 Dec 2025
According to Hamas and members of the Islamic Jihad, one of the remains found in northern Gaza was another Israeli prisoner. In the upcoming hours, Israel will set up a burial place for the body. Israel had claimed that neither of the remains that were delivered on Tuesday were those of the other captives who are still missing.
Published On 3 Dec 2025
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, will take the title of Formula One’s champion on Sunday in Abu Dhabi, aiming to overthrow Max Verstappen, who is currently the Dutchman’s fifth consecutive title.
Verstappen is the only one who will need to place on the podium at Yas Marina if Norris wins the three-way showdown, which could feature a high drama showdown between Norris and Verstappen.
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None of the three contenders have come back strong in the final season before the start of a new era for the sport and the expansion to 11 teams with new rules and engines.
All seven victories are cumulative, capable of growing that total, and prepared to deliver a heart-pounding sunset finale that might have been straight out of Brad Pitt’s most recent F1 blockbuster.
All race retirees have experienced the agony of crashes or collisions.
At the end of August, Norris, who won the first game of its kind in Melbourne in March, bounced back with a hot streak while the Australian was in trouble.
After losing a title fight to Verstappen, he won in Abu Dhabi last year.
“This season has been fantastic,” she said. Our car is incredible. Everyone on the team is very talented. Thank you to each and every one of our supporters. He declared, “We have one more race coming up, and we will give it everything.”
Piastri, who led from Saudi Arabia in April to Mexico in October, is now 16 points behind his teammate. He had hoped to win Australia’s first championship since Alan Jones 45 years ago.
The driver who finished third overall going into the final round has triumphed twice this century, and he needs to win or finish second.
Verstappen, who finished 104 points behind Piastri in late August, could have made the most astonishing comeback of all, joining Michael Schumacher as the only drivers to win five straight.
After winning in Qatar last weekend and moving on from Las Vegas on the weekend before that, the Dutchman grinned, “We stay in the fight until the end.”
He has won four straight victories at the anti-clockwise circuit in Abu Dhabi up until last year, which has made it a happy hunting ground for him.
Norris would need to be eliminated for a second victory to be successful.
Due to poor planning, McLaren both had their vehicles banned in Las Vegas and lost the podium win for Piastri and Norris in Qatar.
The runaway constructors’ champions, who have the second-highest single-season points total in history, must be able to secure their first title double since 1998.
Others will be chasing prize money and points to advance their position in the paddock pecking order while the title drama unfolds.
Given that George Russell and Kimi Antonelli are both heavily reliant on Verstappen, Mercedes and Red Bull are in a fight for second place.
Yuki Tsunoda, who previously worked for Honda and Aston Martin, will make his final appearance at Red Bull, having been given his seat by Frenchman Isack Hadjar for the following season.
While Lewis Hamilton, a seven-time world champion, is facing his first season without even standing on the podium, Ferrari will only have one chance to win a race in 2025.
With Nico Hulkenberg starting his 250th start for the factory Audi team, Sauber are only five points adrift of eighth-placed Haas, who are ultimately seven points adrift of Aston Martin.
Alpine, owned by Renault, are battling Renault engines for the final time before switching to Mercedes power. One last attempt is required for Argentinian driver Franco Colapinto to earn his campaign’s first point.
US sanctions have had a “horrifying effect” on her life, according to Canadian ICC Judge Kimberly Prost, who told Al Jazeera. She spoke with our correspondent Step Vaessen, one of nine US officials who has been charged with trying to prosecute Israeli and American citizens.
Published On 3 Dec 2025
Following a significant backlash resulting from concerns about digital rights, India has suspended a command to smartphone manufacturers to install a government-owned cybersecurity application on all new mobile devices.
All leading smartphone manufacturers, including Apple and Samsung, were given 90 days to add the government’s Sanchar Saathi application to all newly produced devices, according to an official notification released by the Department of Telecommunications on November 28.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government claimed the decree was a step in a campaign to combat mobile phone fraud and abuse.
However, both tech companies and advocates for digital privacy were against the order. Previously, a number of privacy- and security-related issues reportedly caused Apple, headquartered in the United States, to say it would not comply with the order.
What we know is as follows.
Manufacturers were instructed to ensure that Sanchar Saathi was “pre-installed on all mobile handsets manufactured or imported for use in India” within 90 days in accordance with the directive issued by India’s Department of Telecommunications.
Manufacturers were informed that the app’s features were “not disabled or restricted,” and that it was “readily visible and accessible to the end users at the time of first use or device setup.”
Manufacturers and importers were instructed to “make an effort to push the App through software updates” for devices already in stock, according to the order.
Companies were also required to submit compliance reports to the telecom ministry within 120 days of the directive.
More than 85 percent of Indian households are smartphone owners, according to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) in May.
It’s obvious that Sanchar Saathi is a snooping app, but it’s ridiculous. The right to privacy is a right of citizens. Without the government’s supervision, everyone must have the right to privacy when communicating with friends and family.
It’s more than just phone snooping. They’re… pic. twitter.com/omw2XlD5pq
The government supported the decree, stating that Sanchar Saathi would enable “stakeholders to report International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) – related suspicious misuse and also verify the authenticity of IMEIs used in mobile devices.” Sanchar Saathi added that the country’s Telecom Cyber Security Rules empower it to establish “necessary to identify and report acts that may endanger telecom cyber security.”
A unique 15-digit IMEI is used to identify a particular mobile device.
According to a source with knowledge of Apple’s concerns about the app, the tech giant would tell the Indian government that it would not abide by any such laws anywhere in the world.
Samsung, a South Korean-based tech company, was reportedly reviewing the order, a source inside the industry told Reuters, but it had not provided any information regarding how it planned to proceed.
Its “deeply worrying expansion of executive control over personal digital devices” was described by the Indian Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF).
On the surface, the stated goal of halting IMEI fraud and improving telecom security appears to be a legitimate state goal. However, the methods chosen are “disproportionately” legal fragile, “economically hostile” to user privacy and autonomy,” it said in a statement.
Priyanka Gandhi, a leader of the Congress and Lok Sabha member, described Sanchar Saathi as “ridiculous” and “snooping.”
The Delhi-based Software Freedom Law Center claimed that the directive was yet another attempt to “destroy user autonomy, make a mockery of consent, and have a 24-hour State in My Home measure.”
“This is the beginning of a function creep slope.” The extensive integration of state software on private devices results in an increase in surveillance capabilities without the need for fresh public debate whenever new changes are made, according to the statement.
“Government has no business being in our devices that are more meaningful to us than our loved ones,” he said.
The Indian government’s COVID-19 contact tracing app, Aarogya Setu, was the subject of a similar controversy in 2020, when it was deemed a “privacy minefield” by critics.
The government announced early on Wednesday that it would be willing to change the order “based on the feedback we receive.” The order was voided a few hours later.
The Indian Communications Ministry stated in a press release that the government has decided not to require pre-installation for mobile manufacturers.
The app is secure, according to the statement, and is only intended to protect users from “bad actors in the cyber world.”
Government mandates no pre-installation of Sanchar Saathi apps.
The government mandated the pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi app on all smartphones with the intention of allowing all citizens to gain access to cyber security. The app is secure, and it’s only intended to assist citizens… twitter.com/u4AgSuLrkh
The IFF claimed that the full legal order governing the revocation was still a “welcome development” even though it was still in its entirety.
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The PIB just announced in a statement at 3:00 PM on December 3, 2025 that the government won’t require mobile manufacturers to install the Sanchar Saathi app prior to December 3. Although we are still waiting for the legal order’s full text, we are pleased that this has been made. twitter.com/VQV4t8YNfK
Russia released Max earlier this year, an app designed to stop stolen phones from being used in fraud schemes and expand access to state-backed digital services.
Max is allegedly more secure than apps provided by foreign competitors by Russian authorities.
Max, a product of the state-controlled tech company VK, is integrated with government platforms and is required on all new cell phones and tablets sold as a result of the government’s requirement since September 1.
Moscow claimed that the move would create a “digital ecosystem” that was “smarter”. The app is likely to be used for surveillance, claim Moscow has refuted, though, according to critics.
Shurina, 15, embarks on an unanticipated journey through history and loss when she is cast as a kamikaze pilot in her school play. In honor of schoolgirls who were forced to commit suicide during World War II, she visits World War II memorials and hangs paper cranes in her honor across Japan.
As her final performance approaches in Okinawa, Shurina tries to find the courage to honor the voices of the past.
Published On 3 Dec 2025