## [2025-12-20](/feed/2025/12/20/index.md)

##### 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. ](/feed/2025/12/20/german-engineer-michaela-benthaus-becomes-the-first-person-in-a-wheelchair-and-the-first-with-paraplegia-to-travel-to-sp.md)
##### Iran
### [Iran executes a man convicted of spying for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad in Urmia. ](/feed/2025/12/20/iran-executes-a-man-convicted-of-spying-for-israeli-intelligence-agency-mossad-in-urmia.md)
##### 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. ](/feed/2025/12/20/a-pakistani-court-sentences-former-prime-minister-imran-khan-and-his-wife-bushra-bibi-to-17-years-in-prison-after-find.md)
##### Elephant
### [Seven elephants are killed and another is injured when a passenger train strikes a herd in the Hojai district of Assam, India. ](/feed/2025/12/20/seven-elephants-are-killed-and-another-is-injured-when-a-passenger-train-strikes-a-herd-in-the-hojai-district-of-assam.md)
##### US intervention in the Syrian civil war
### [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. ](/feed/2025/12/20/the-united-states-and-jordan-carry-out-airstrikes-on-70-islamic-state-targets-at-multiple-locations-in-syria-in-retalia.md)
##### Operation Southern Spear
### [The United States Coast Guard intercepts and seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela after previously seizing another last week. ](/feed/2025/12/20/the-united-states-coast-guard-intercepts-and-seizes-an-oil-tanker-off-the-coast-of-venezuela-after-previously-seizing-an.md)
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