The Petersburg Post

Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 - Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Maryland ruled Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a wrongfully deported Salvadoran immigrant, could not be rearrested during a check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The order from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis came one day after she ordered his release from ICE detention in Pennsylvania, saying the Trump administration lacked the legal authority to continue holding ...

Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 - Thailand and Cambodia have agreed "to cease all shooting" effective Friday, according to United States President Donald Trump. Trump announced the agreement to restart the ceasefire in a social media post following calls with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on Friday. "They have agreed to CEASE all shooting effective this evening, and go back to the original Peace ...

Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 - Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the United States had put forward a plan for Ukrainian forces to pull out of areas of its Donetsk region that it still controls in favor of a "free economic zone" that Russian forces would not advance into. The trade-off solution would see Ukraine give up the appoximately 30% of the province it currently holds, as demanded by Russia, but that territory ...

Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 - Russia's central bank on Friday said it was suing the Belgium-based Euroclear financial group, which holds Moscow's frozen international reserves, as the EU moves closer to using the funds to support Ukraine. The European Commission is pushing to tap some 200 billion euros ($232 billion) of the Russian central bank's assets that the bloc immobilised after Moscow's 2022 assault on Ukraine, in order to provide Kyiv a ...