The Guardian
A volcano in Ethiopia’s north-eastern region has erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick plumes of smoke up to 9 miles (14km) into the sky, and across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman.
The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located in Ethiopia’s Afar region about 500 miles north-east of Addis Ababa near the Eritrean border, erupted on Sunday for several hours.
A local official, Mohammed Seid, said there were no casualties, but the eruption could have economic implications for the local community of livestock herders.
Seid said there was no previous record of an eruption by the Hayli Gubbi volcano, and that he fears for the livelihoods of residents.
“While no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their animals have little to eat,” he said.
This is an open thread where everyone is welcome, especially night owls and early birds, to share and discuss the happenings of the day. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments.
x
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
[image or embed]
— Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Wired
THIS ISN’T THE story I set out to write.
I was going to talk about a pretty feel-good firearms competition I went to earlier this year, where trans and queer people made up about a quarter of participants and the unofficial rule was you’re not allowed to be a bigot. I was going to describe the strange and whimsical mix of subcultures people embraced there—like polyamory and Mad Max cosplay—wrapped up in pro-LGBT and Black Lives Matter patches.
Suddenly I found myself wondering if I should write this story at all. If doing so would put my sources—gun-loving trans people in Trump’s America—in danger. I’m still going to talk about the things I just mentioned. But this story, even as I write, continues to get darker.
IT’S LATE JULY, and I’m riding bitch in a pseudo golf cart at a gun range in the not-quite-desert that is Parma, Idaho, listening to two competitive shooters jokingly bicker over which one of them is more marginalized. One, a 22-year-old YouTuber who goes by Gun Bunny, is a Russian Jew who is poly-pansexual and has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a disability that makes her joints hurt, along with autism and ADHD. The other, our driver, is an Indigenous-Mexican Slovak Jew who is trans and chronically disabled. As we grind to a halt, dust from the dirt road blowing around us, Gun Bunny declares the other shooter a winner. “You have Slovak Jew, so you do have me beat,” she says, to which our driver replies, “even the Russians screwed us.” Laughing, Gun Bunny offers a truce and a mission for them both. “So what you’re saying is we should team up to defeat Nazis.”
NPR
A federal judge on Monday dismissed the Justice Department's criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding that the acting U.S. attorney who secured the indictments against the two prominent critics of President Trump was unlawfully appointed.
The decision from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie on the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as the top prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia marks a significant setback to efforts to go after the president's perceived political enemies.
In dual rulings, Judge Currie said "all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment," including the indictments against Comey and James, "were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set aside." Currie was nominated to the bench by former President Bill Clinton.
NPR
The Pentagon said Monday it is investigating Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired U.S. Navy fighter pilot and NASA astronaut, for possible violations of military law after he appeared in a video with other Democratic lawmakers urging active duty military and intelligence personnel to refuse "illegal orders.
"In the case of Kelly, the Pentagon put out a statement saying that it had "received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.)," and that "a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures."
Kyiv Independent
A Czech company has been accused of selling Chinese-made drones to Ukraine at steep markups — sometimes nearly 20 times the original price — and is under investigation for alleged tax evasion, Czech media reported on Nov. 24.
Radiozurnal, citing sources familiar with the case, reported that the company Reactive Drone bought drones for about 36 million Czech crowns (approximately $1.7 million) and sold them to the Ukrainian military for around 692 million crowns ($33 million) over a two-year period.
"Specifically, over a two-year period, (Reactive Drone) purchased drones for approximately 36 million crowns and sold them to the Ukrainian army for 692 million crowns," a source told Radiozurnal.
Moreover, according to Czechia's National Center for Combating Organized Crime, the company transferred most of its profit — about 638 million crowns, or $30 million— to Chinese accounts instead of paying taxes in Czechia.
Kyiv Independent
Ukraine remains ready for peace talks with Russia but will never formally recognize the Russian occupation or accept restrictions on its army size or alliances, Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk said on Nov. 24.
These are the "red lines" that nobody can cross, "neither physically, nor legally, nor morally," Stefanchuk said during the Parliamentary Summit of the Crimean Platform in Stockholm.
"No recognition of Russia's occupation of Ukrainian territories, no limits on the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and no veto over Ukraine's choice of future alliances," the official said.
The statement comes days after the U.S. proposed a controversial 28-point peace plan that would see Ukraine's peacetime military capped at 600,000 troops, force Kyiv to cede the entire Donbas region, and ban it from seeking NATO membership.
The Guardian
The UK government has rejected a request by Nigeria to deport a former senior Nigerian politician convicted of organ trafficking.
Ike Ekweremadu, 63, a former deputy president of the Nigerian senate and ally of the former president Goodluck Jonathan, is serving a sentence of nine years and eight months after being found guilty in 2023 of conspiring to exploit a man for his kidney.
Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, and a co-conspirator, Dr Obinna Obeta, trafficked a young man to London with a view to harvesting his kidney, which they planned to transplant to Ekweremadu’s daughter Sonia in a private unit of an NHS hospital.
It was the first conviction for organ trafficking under the Modern Slavery Act.
The Guardian
Nigel Farage has broken his silence nearly a week after he was accused by about 20 people of racism and antisemitism as a teenager, by saying he “never directly, really tried to go and hurt anybody”.
His remarks came after the publication of a detailed investigation by the Guardian in which many of his school contemporaries claimed to be victims of, or witnesses to, repeated incidents of deeply offensive behaviour.
The Reform party leader’s aides emphatically denied the allegations, saying that any “suggestion that Mr Farage ever engaged in, condoned, or led racist or antisemitic behaviour is categorically denied”.
In a broadcast interview on Monday, Farage appeared to give a more nuanced response when he was asked if he had racially abused fellow pupils at school.
Al Jazeera
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have announced an apparently unilateral three-month humanitarian truce in the country’s civil war.
RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, made the announcement on Monday in a recorded address. The warring Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan did not immediately confirm that any agreement had been reached.
Al-Burhan late on Sunday had rejected a ceasefire proposal put forward by the so-called Quad – Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. He took particular issue with the presence in the grouping of the UAE, which has long rejected accusations that it is arming and funding the RSF.
On Monday, Hemedti said the RSF agreed to the truce in cooperation with the Quad, the African Union and the regional Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) bloc and sought to enhance civilian protections and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid.
x
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
[image or embed]
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neildegrassetyson.com) November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Al Jazeera
The Israeli- and United States-backed GHF organisation has announced it is ending its “mission” in Gaza.
The group sparked controversy after it began distributing food in the Palestinian enclave in May.
It has been widely condemned for bypassing the United Nations and other humanitarian aid infrastructure in Gaza and for deadly violence that regularly broke out at or near its crowded distribution sites by Israeli soldiers and its own security contractors.
“From the outset, GHF’s goal was to meet an urgent need, prove that a new approach could succeed where others had failed, and ultimately hand off that success to the broader international community,” GHF Executive Director John Acree said in a statement on Monday.
The statement pointed to provisions in the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that went into effect in October as the reason for ending its operations.
Deutsche Welle
For decades, China has been a critical economic partner for German business. That remains the case and German industry is reluctant to pivot away despite a changing economic and political relationship.
For Matthias Rüth, there's no question of pivoting his business away from China — despite growing government warnings about the risks of being too invested in the country.
As the managing director of Frankfurt-based rare earths and commodity trading firm Tradium, China remains fundamental to the business, given the country's almost complete dominance of the increasingly vital rare earths sector.
"With China covering, for instance, more than 95% of the rare earth market, you cannot replace this in a short time," he told DW. "These are long-standing and reliable trading relationships, and the material and processes are proven."
For Rüth and so many other firms in Germany, China remains an obvious place to do business. For a long time, the German government fully embraced and encouraged that position.
However, the country's authoritarian shift under President Xi Jinping — which has seen China back Russia in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine — has changed EU-China relations.
Deutsche Welle
Belgium is set for a new phase of labor unrest as unions launch coordinated walkouts against the government's savings plans. The action, already affecting rail passengers, is set to widen to include schools and airports.
Belgium began a three-day strike on Monday as unions protest the government's planned social and budget reforms.
The walkouts are expected to heavily disrupt transport, schools, hospitals and public services, with consequences reaching into Germany.
The Belgian rail operator SNCB reduced its timetable on Sunday evening and said only every second train would run on Monday, with some routes operating at just one-third of normal service.
Several ICE trains on the busy Brussels–Cologne line were canceled. According to the Belga news agency, commuter traffic will remain particularly affected through Wednesday.
The disruption will intensify through the week. After Monday's rail strike, hospital staff, kindergarten workers and teachers will join the walkouts on Tuesday. Public-sector employees across post services, waste collection and local transport are also expected to participate.
And finally Elon Musk allowed us to take a peek at so many MAGA sites being from oversees including many MAGA influencers.
The crew of the Overnight News Digest consists of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, FarWestGirl, eeff, annetteboardman, Besame, and jck. Alumni editors include (but not limited to), Rise above the swamp, DoomandGloom, Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man (RIP), wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw.
