We bring you some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.

More than two months after Israel and Hamas agreed a ceasefire halting two years of devastating warfare in Gaza, most fighting has stopped.

In a world where breaking news and devastating images from Gaza flood media platforms on a daily basis, the West Bank, this ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Western countries to step up their fight against anti-Semitism and ...

The final vote among the UNSC had thirteen in favour and two abstentions, with the US, UK, France, Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Somalia ...

Washington is “looking into” whether Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire when it killed a senior Hamas commander on the ...

PolitiFact editors pick the official winner. This year, PolitiFact is spotlighting three stories that exemplify the consequences of falsehoods in 2025, which we’re calling our Year of the Lies.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected a challenge from Israel, which had argued that the court’s investigation ...

JERUSALEM -- Israel on Saturday said it killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza after an explosive device detonated and wounded ...

The Gaza peace plan, unveiled by US President Donald Trump in September 2025 and later endorsed by the United Nations through Security Council Resolution 2803, was hailed as the most ambitious attempt ...

The UN agency says the figure given by Gaza health authorities, spanning July 2024 to late November this year, could be an ...

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 13 (APP): The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has expressed alarm at reports of a so-called “settler road” being built by Israel in the occupied West Bank. Around 100 hectares of ...