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Al Jazeera’s Jessica Washington reports from Indonesia’s Aceh Tamiang, one of the areas worst hit by the deadly floods. Survivors there are now threatened by disease and starvation after entire villages were wiped out, leaving people with nothing.
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ReutersUkraine is preparing to present a revised peace plan to the White House, as it seeks to avoid making territorial concessions to Russia.
Kyiv is set to propose alternatives to the US after President Volodymyr Zelensky again ruled out surrendering land, saying he had “no right” to do so under Ukrainian or international law.
He made the comments as he met European and Nato leaders on Monday, part of a collective push to deter the US from backing a peace deal which includes major concessions for Ukraine, and which allies fear would leave it vulnerable to a future invasion.
Meanwhile, the city of Sumy in north-western Ukraine was left without power overnight after a Russian drone attack.
The region’s governor said more than a dozen drones had hit power infrastructure, the latest in Russia’s nightly attacks. No deaths were reported.
Zelensky’s ongoing diplomatic tour of Europe comes after days of intensive talks between US and Ukrainian negotiators over the weekend, that failed to produce a deal Kyiv could agree to.
Zelensky was due to be briefed on that private summit on Monday by his chief aide Rustem Umerov, who wrote on Telegram that he would feed back details of direct talks between the US and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Ukrainian president told a news conference that his team could send a new proposal to the Americans as soon as Tuesday, AFP news agency reported.
On the subject of surrendering land, Zelensky said: “Russia is insisting that we give up territories, but we don’t want to cede anything.”
He continued: “We have no legal right to do so, under Ukrainian law, our constitution and international law. And we don’t have any moral right either.”
Zelensky has long maintained that any changes to Ukraine’s borders would need to be authorised by a public referendum.
Elsewhere, he told reporters that the initial 28-point plan proposed by the US – and rejected by Kyiv and European leaders as being too favourable to Russia – had been cut down to 20 points, according to Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
He said no “pro-Ukrainian” points had been removed from the draft, though there had also been no “compromise” on the subject of territory.
Zelensky singled out control of the eastern Donbas region and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as being among the “most sensitive” issues.
The original leaked version of the US-backed plan proposed that Ukraine hand over total control of the Donbas to Russia, despite the fact that Kremlin forces have been unable to capture it in full after almost four years of war.
Energy produced at Zaporizhzhia, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, would be split between Russia and Ukraine, the draft plan said.
Leaders in Kyiv and across Europe have indicated there has been progress in refining that draft in recent weeks, and have praised the Trump administration for seeking to mediate an end to the fighting.
But Monday’s hastily arranged Downing Street summit – attended by Zelensky, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz – was widely viewed as a show of support for Ukraine as it seeks to resist White House pressure.
No 10 said there had been an agreement that the US-led talks represented a “critical moment” to ramp up support for Ukraine, and repeated calls for a “just and lasting peace… which includes robust security guarantees”.
EPAThe nature of those future security guarantees are another open question in the negotiations.
Efforts continue to assemble an international coalition prepared to offer ongoing military support to Kyiv in the event of a peace deal, though it is not yet clear what form that would take.
While the UK and France have proposed deploying international troops in Ukraine, several key defence players in Europe, including Germany and Italy, have expressed scepticism about that idea.
It is also not clear to what extent the US would be willing to underpin any future defence arrangements for Ukraine.
Following talks in London, Zelensky flew to Brussels to meet Nato chief Mark Rutte and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, and will meet Prime Minister Georgia Meloni in Italy on Tuesday.
Moscow has also claimed talks with the White House have been constructive, despite little public indication it has moved on any of the goals set out by the Kremlin when it launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
On Sunday, Trump indicated that he viewed Zelensky as the main obstacle to securing a peace deal, something he has made a key foreign policy goal and which the president claimed he would be able to achieve rapidly during the 2024 presidential election campaign.
He told reporters that Russia was “fine” with the peace plan outlined to both sides by the US, but that he was a “little disappointed that Zelensky hasn’t read it”.
Almost simultaneously, Zelensky said he was waiting to briefed by his chief negotiator Rustem Umerov who had just taken part in three days of discussions with his US counterparts in Miami.
“Some issues can only be discussed in person,” said Zelensky.
The immense electricity needs of AI computing was flagged early on as a bottleneck, prompting Alphabet’s Google Cloud to plan for how to source energy and how to use it, according to Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian.
Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm AI event in San Francisco on Monday, he pointed out that the company—a key enabler in the AI infrastructure landscape—has been working on AI since well before large language models came along and took the long view.
“We also knew that the the most problematic thing that was going to happen was going to be energy, because energy and data centers were going to become a bottleneck alongside chips,” Kurian told Fortune’sAndrew Nusca. “So we designed our machines to be super efficient.”
The International Energy Agency has estimated that some AI-focused data centers consume as much electricity as 100,000 homes, and some of the largest facilities under construction could even use 20 times that amount.
At the same time, worldwide data center capacity will increase by 46% over the next two years, equivalent to a jump of almost 21,000 megawatts, according to real estate consultancy Knight Frank.
At the Brainstorm event, Kurian laid out Google Cloud’s three-pronged approach to ensuring that there will be enough energy to meet all that demand.
First, the company seeks to be as diversified as possible in the kinds of energy that power AI computation. While many people say any form of energy can be used, that’s actually not true, he said.
“If you’re running a cluster for training and you bring it up and you start running a training job, the spike that you have with that computation draws so much energy that you can’t handle that from some forms of energy production,” Kurian explained.
The second part of Google Cloud’s strategy is being as efficient as possible, including how it reuses energy within data centers, he added.
In fact, the company uses AI in its control systems to monitor thermodynamic exchanges necessary in harnessing the energy that has already been brought into data centers.
And third, Google Cloud is working on “some new fundamental technologies to actually create energy in new forms,” Kurian said without elaborating further.
Earlier on Monday, utility company NextEra Energy and Google Cloud said they are expanding their partnership and will develop new U.S. data center campuses that will include with new power plants as well.
Tech leaders have warned that energy supply is critical to AI development alongside innovations in chips and improved language models.
The ability to build data centers is another potential chokepoint as well. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently pointed out China’s advantage on that front compared to the U.S.
“If you want to build a data center here in the United States, from breaking ground to standing up an AI supercomputer is probably about three years,” he said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in late November. “They can build a hospital in a weekend.”
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“Medical checkup will be very, very critical for them. And then if anything is discovered, any laboratory investigation is conducted and something is discovered, definitely they will need health care.” My excitement is that we have these children, 100 of them, and by the grace of God, we are expecting the remaining half to be released very soon.”
By Jamie Leventhal
December 8, 2025
Matt Pincus launched a company called Trust Records (alongside co-founder Joe Nelson) in 2020 with a focused mission: to promote, preserve, and protect classic punk and hardcore music.
Now, Trust Records has struck one of its most significant deals to date: an “intellectual property partnership” with influential punk band Bad Brains.
The deal between the band and Trust covers all IP controlled by Bad Brains, including their publishing rights, master recording rights, name and likeness, trademark and visual IP. The deal also includes administration and distribution of the majority of the catalog, including the band’s classic, seminal first-run titles.
This includes the band’s self-titled debut album as well as records Rock For Light, I Against I, and Quickness.
Formed in 1978, the legendary Washington, D.C. band blended fast-paced hardcore punk with reggae and dub, pioneering a sound that has influenced countless artists from Rage Against The Machine and Metallica to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Foo Fighters.
Under the new deal, Trust Records says that it will continue to ensure that the band’s music is “available for generations to come”.
Matt Pincus, who the Wall Street Journal describes in this new interview about Trust Records and the Bad Brains deal as “The troubled youth turned punk rock label executive,” is well-known in the music industry as a successful entrepreneur, and as the bass player for New York hardcore band Judge.
Pincus founded SONGS Music Publishing in 2004, which signed The Weeknd, Diplo, and Lorde before selling to Kobalt Capital for around $160 million in 2017.
After exiting SONGS, Pincus launched MUSIC, a $200 million investment firm in partnership with Liontree, making strategic investments across music tech (Splice, HIFI, DICE), indie labels (LVRN), and B2B services (Soundtrack Your Brand).
He also launched Trust Records in 2020, “to give classic punk and hardcore records the home that they deserve”.
The company said in its press release about the Bad Brains deal on Monday (December 8), that “the great records of this genre sprung from DIY roots to influence millions of disaffected kids around the world”. It added: “as we now move into the ‘streaming age’, it’s crucial to keep their spirit and legacy alive.”
Trust Records’ catalog also includes 40th Anniversary Deluxe versions of Circle Jerks’ albums Group Sex, Wild in The Streets and 7Seconds’ 1984 “landmark” punk record, The Crew in addition to reissues of Youth Brigade’s Sound and Fury and DFL’s My Crazy Life, SSD’s The Kids Will Have Their Say, Ink & Dagger’s The Complete Works and more.
As part of the latest partnership, Trust Records has established an Artist Advisory Board, with Bad Brains’ bassist Darryl Jenifer serving as a member to help guide the company’s future creative vision.
The original Bad Brains lineup consisted of H.R. (vocals), Dr. Know (guitar), Darryl Jenifer (bass), and Earl Hudson (drums).
“TRUST’s love and knowledge of Bad Brains and the PMA ethos makes them a perfect match to partner with as we keep Bad Brains Sailin’ On.”
Darryl Jenifer, Bad Brains
“After 40 plus years of forging the spirit PMA through our brand of progressive punk rock aka Hardcore, I’m happy that Bad Brains will be sharing the wheel with TRUST in our ongoing quest to keep Bad Brains alive in the hearts and minds of our supporters as we step into the future,” said Bad Brains bassist, Darryl Jenifer.
“TRUST’s love and knowledge of Bad Brains and the PMA ethos makes them a perfect match to partner with as we keep Bad Brains Sailin’ On. Stay tuned for what’s next to come. One love and a hefty dose of PMA.”
“It is the highest honor partner with Darryl and Bad Brains in the stewardship of their iconic work.”
Matt Pincus
“We started Trust Records to promote, preserve, and protect punk and hardcore music and the culture that surrounds it.” said Trust Records Founder, Matt Pincus.
He added: “Bad Brains is the absolute top of the mountain in punk and hardcore. They taught the rest of us how to do it. It is the highest honor partner with Darryl and Bad Brains in the stewardship of their iconic work.
“Bad Brains’ are an iconic and legendary band whose impact on global culture cannot be overstated.”
Joe Nelson, Trust Records
Joe Nelson, Co-founder of Trust Records, said: “Bad Brains’ are an iconic and legendary band whose impact on global culture cannot be overstated.
“We are thrilled that they’ve chosen Trust Records as their home and we look forward to working with them to continue to build their fan base around the world.”Music Business Worldwide
When Emanuel Steward spoke, the boxing world tended to listen.
He passed away on October 25, 2012, aged 68, but left behind a legacy that will continue to be revered for generations. Famed for his work at Detroit’s world-renowned Kronk Gym, Steward guided countless fighters to world titles –– including Thomas Hearns, Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko –– and carved out an equally celebrated career as an HBO analyst alongside Jim Lampley and Max Kellerman.
A few months before his death, Steward was asked by journalist James Slater to name his top 10 fighters of all time. Lists of that nature are common, but some carry more weight than others –– and Steward’s certainly does.
From numbers 10 to 5, the legendary trainer selected Roberto Durán, Manny Pacquiao, Sam Langford, George Foreman and Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the latter having famously toppled Steward and Hearns in their 1985 war.
His top five featured exclusively American fighters from eras spanning the 1930s to the 1980s. Former heavyweight champion Joe “The Brown Bomber” Louis headed the group at No. 5, followed by featherweight maestro Willie Pep at No. 4. The bronze position went to Henry Armstrong, the only man ever to hold three world titles simultaneously, while “The Greatest,” Muhammad Ali, claimed the No. 2 spot.
At No. 1 sat the mesmeric fists and dancing feet of Sugar Ray Robinson, the former welterweight and middleweight champion widely regarded as the standard against which all others are measured.
Explaining his choice, Steward said:
“The best welterweight ever! A phenomenal record at a time when records were real!”
Robinson remains the consensus pick not only for Steward but for much of the boxing community. Once dubbed “The Mayor of Harlem,” he had it all –– natural fighting instincts, artistry, and a jaw-dropping résumé of 201 bouts, ending with 174 wins, fought from 1940 through his final victory in 1965.
The Trump administration has accused ICEBlock of making federal agents vulnerable to attack and called for its removal.
Published On 9 Dec 2025
The developer of a popular app used to monitor and share alerts about immigration enforcement activities has sued the administration of United States President Donald Trump for pressuring Apple to remove it.
ICEBlock, whose name refers to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had one million users before it was dropped from Apple’s app store, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.
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Developer Joshua Aaron alleged in the complaint that the Trump administration’s campaign against the tracking app amounted to a violation of free speech.
“When we see our government doing something wrong, it’s our duty as citizens of this nation to hold them accountable, and that is exactly what we’re doing with this lawsuit,” Aaron said in the lawsuit.
The suit calls on the district court system to protect the Texas-based software company from “unlawful threats” under the Trump administration.
It also names as defendants some of Trump’s highest-level officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and ICE’s acting director, Todd Lyons.
First released in April, ICEBlock quickly became a widely used tool across the US as communities sought ways to share information about immigration raids.
Since returning to office for a second term, Trump has pushed a campaign of mass deportation, targeting a wide range of immigrants, many of whom are in the country legally.
Those raids, many carried out by heavily armed immigration agents in military-style attire, have also faced repeated accusations of human rights abuses.
Critics have questioned the violence used in some arrests, as well as the ICE officers’ use of face masks and plainclothes to conceal their identities.
There have also been reports of inhumane conditions once immigrants are in custody, including overcrowding, a lack of sanitation and faeces-smeared walls.
Human rights advocates have also questioned the speed with which deportations are being carried out, claiming the immigrants arrested have no opportunity to exercise their due process rights and are often prevented from contacting lawyers.
Even US citizens have been accidentally detained in the immigration sweeps. Some immigrants have been deported despite court orders mandating that they remain in the US.
The Trump administration has faced fierce criticism and judicial rebukes for its tactics.
But it maintains that software like ICEBlock puts federal immigration agents in danger of retaliation.
“ICEBlock is designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs, and violence against law enforcement is an intolerable red line,” Attorney General Bondi has said.
In October, ICEBlock was pulled from Apple’s app store, a popular platform for downloading mobile software. The Justice Department confirmed that it had contacted Apple to push for the removal.
The lawsuit states that the tech company told Aaron the app had been removed following “information provided to Apple by law enforcement”.
Aaron has countered that the app is an exercise of essential free speech rights and is meant to help protect people from overbearing government activity.
“We’re basically asking the court to set a precedent and affirm that ICEBlock is, in fact, First Amendment-protected speech and that I did nothing wrong by creating it,” Aaron told The Associated Press news agency in an interview.
“I mean, these are people that are wearing masks — which is the antithesis of everything about this country — and they are not identifying themselves, and they’re zip-tying children, and they’re throwing women into vans.”
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