DAILY NEWS Stream – December 30, 2025

Thailand and Cambodia sign an immediate ceasefire to halt weeks of deadly border fighting that has killed over 100 people and displaced hundreds of thousands. Both sides keep current troop positions, halt all attacks, and accept ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] monitoring as they work to prevent escalation and restore stability along the disputed frontier (Al Jazeera)

Venezuela releases more than 60 people detained after protests against Maduro’s disputed re-election, as families celebrate Christmas reunions while demanding full freedom of all political prisoners (Al Jazeera)

Bulgaria offers emergency fuel oil to North Macedonia after Skopje [capital of North Macedonia] declares a state of emergency triggered by disrupted energy supplies. The disruption stems from Greek farmers blocking border crossings with Greece, halting the flow of fuel and raw materials the country relies on (The Sofia Globe)

A study published in the journal Science finds the global seafood trade spreads PFAS [per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances] forever chemicals to consumers worldwide through imported seafood even in countries with clean waters, with scientists linking PFAS to cancer and liver disease (Phys.org)

Doctors set a Guinness World Record for the longest distance ever between a surgeon and patient for a remote surgery (12,034 kilometers), by performing two live robotic inguinal hernia procedures: one on a patient at Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital [Kuwait] conducted from Hospital Cruz Vermelha [Brazil] and another with physicians at the Kuwaiti hospital remotely operating on a patient at the Brazilian hospital. This achievement also demonstrates how secured, high-bandwidth networks can remove geographic barriers to complex medical care (Interesting Engineering)

The King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center [Saudi Arabia] introduces the Kingdom’s first preventive treatment to slow type 1 diabetes progression in adults and children aged eight and older diagnosed at stage two of the disease, aiming to delay pancreatic cell damage with a novel drug (Arab News)

The US Northwest faces worsening drought after August through November 2025 averaged the warmest temperatures in over 130 years, with snowpack at historic lows since 2001, as warm storms brought rain instead of snow and western Oregon received only around 50% of normal precipitation in November (Oregon Capital Chronicle)

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica shows fractures now spanning around 336 kilometers of its ice shelf, up from around 165 kilometers in 2002, weakening its structure and potentially raising global sea levels by as much as 65 centimeters if it collapses (Báo Thanh Niên)

US airlines cancel over 1,100 flights and delay over 3,800 on December 26 during peak holiday travel as severe winter storms create hazardous conditions from the Great Lakes to the Northeast, with major airports including those in the New York City-area and Detroit issuing delay alerts (Investing.com)

An Albuquerque [New Mexico, US] man, is charged with extreme cruelty to animal-people after police say he shot his neighbor’s dog companion in the face with a BB gun (air gun) The dog-individual survived (KRQE)

Authorities convict a Staffordshire [UK] man for running an illegal pet-folk shop from his home, where officers find neglected exotic bird-people and sugar glider possum-people. All animal-individuals are rehomed after veterinary checks (Aol)

Norwegian social tech company No Isolation develops AV1, a robot with expressive features like eye movements and colors indicating emotions that sits in classrooms. It enables children with long-term medical conditions to remotely attend school, viewing classmates through AV1’s camera and communicating via its speakers (euronews)

The US egg industry kills around 7 billion male chicks yearly, pollutes waterways, worsens the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and misleads consumers with labels like “cage-free” while vegan alternatives like JUST Egg, aquafaba for baking, and tofu scrambles offer ethical options (VegOut)

US family-run vegan company Green Goo offers a plant-based balm with calendula, arnica, yarrow and comfrey for dry skin, burns, eczema and scrapes, avoiding petroleum and synthetic fragrances while emphasizing ethical sourcing (Globe Newswire)

A global vegan conference in Calabar [Nigeria] titled: “Veganism a Sacred Path to Wholesome Living and Better World,” is sponsored by the Brotherhood Vegetarians Fellowship. During the gathering, one of the Brotherhood’s leaders, His Royal Majesty Evans Okileanyanchukwu Nwansi (vegetarian), the Eze [King] of Akabo Autonomous Community in the Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State, and experts in attendance from Africa, Europe and the US, call on all people to adopt the vegan diet to improve health, longevity, spirituality, and environmental protection, and advance global peace (Apex News)

To spread happiness during the Christmas season, United Bank for Africa [UBA] Uganda donates household and welfare items to Busoro Christ Church Orphanage in Fort Portal [Uganda] as part of the UBA Foundation’s annual outreach program supporting vulnerable communities across over 20 African countries (NilePost)

Shelter dog-person “Ziggy” reunites with his original family in Dearborn Heights [Michigan, US] after over a year at Friends of Michigan Animals Rescue. The family, who had lost him four years earlier and named him Toby, saw a shelter promotion photo of him on social media (CBS News)

A 12-year-old boy from Cambodia regains his ability to walk after nine months of chemotherapy and targeted therapy in Âu Lạc (Vietnam) that completely eliminates a rare spinal lymphoma tumor that had paralyzed him (Báo Người Lao Động)

I was seeing hundreds of thousands of little tiny glimpses of what I understood at that time to be all experiences of life that I had lived or that I could live, and some of them looked like me, some of them didn’t, but I knew that it was all me. American spiritual life coach Lisa Everhart was in a dark place— addicted to alcohol and drugs, with a failing liver, coughing up blood, and battling suicidal tendencies. One Sunday morning, she took approximately 800 pills—a combination of Vicodin, muscle relaxers, sleeping pills, aspirin, and poison packets— intending to end her life while her boyfriend was at work.

I went into a dark void, almost like where it was just space. I knew that I was there, but I couldn’t see. I couldn’t see my body. I felt floaty. I don’t know how long I was in this environment, but I do recall then seeing a bright light, and I could then see myself outside of my body, and my body lying on my bed where I had previously taken the pills. I remember being carried out in a body bag, and this was about 8:30. It couldn’t have been any earlier than 8:30 PM at night. So, that left me unattended within that void for about 12 hours before I was found.

Lisa awoke in the hospital multiple times, each time slipping back into the visions. The hospital room no longer looked like a hospital room— it looked like a brick building. I was on this bed, and I was attached to this monitor that had codes on it. I remember trying through all my effort to pull myself up out of this bed, out of this body. And then I was able to succeed in doing that, and I was floating. I went through this wall, and the hospital didn’t look like the hospital— it was all brick.

I went through this sliding glass door, and I went out, and it was just all green grass everywhere. There were these two trees, there was one to my right and one to my left, and they were exactly the same distance from each other, parallel to each other. As I started to [ascend] up this tree, it started to transform into kind of like a treehouse playground, almost. And inside this tree was this old-fashioned television, and it had that gray static going down it. I remember just looking at it, and just wondering, trying to touch it. What is this, and what does it mean?

And then I woke up the first time back in the hospital. And they were yelling my name. And then, I started to fade out again. And then, I heard the nurses say, “She’s seizing, but there’s no activity of it on the monitor.” And then I was out of the body again, and I was floating. I went back up that tree. And this time on the television that was there, the static was gone, and I was seeing hundreds of thousands of little tiny glimpses of what I understood at that time to be all experiences of life that I had lived or that I could live. Some of them looked like me, some of them didn’t, but I knew that it was all me. I then sucked in like I became like a vortex of rainbow, and I sucked into this scene where I was in the hospital. I literally felt like a shift in me, and I then woke up again for the second time in the hospital.

After waking fully, Lisa experienced vivid visions for nearly three years, including being taken by a being in white robes. We flew out of the Universe, broke through the room, broke through the Universe. I could feel the clouds on my face. We went up further, where I could actually see Earth underneath me. And so, going up into the Sun. We broke through the atmosphere of the Sun. I felt the heat on my face. When we entered into the Sun, I saw all these little cliff mountaintops everywhere, and there was water flowing all underneath it. It was just the most gorgeous place I’ve ever seen. Everything was just so bright and filled with colors that I mean colors here, the brightest of colors, it doesn’t even touch to the colors that were there. Everything was marble and granite and emerald and silver and gold. It was just beautiful. Beautiful place. I was told, but no one speaks there, so I heard it, and it says, “You are a messenger, you are to share.” I felt this loving embrace, this warmth of just the most amazing feeling ever that one could hope to feel. It just consumes me.

I hit that sweet spot of just really knowing I do have purpose, my story has purpose. There is no death in this world. That is my personal belief, because of what I experienced. I have to stay true to my experience, and I just don’t believe that death is an ending. I believe death is a beginning to a new life until we are done doing our work that we’re here to do. It was very hard for me to wrap my mind around at first, it really was. But through the years — I mean, the proof is in my experience, because I’m a completely changed person. It’s like I stepped into a new version of me, because I did. My liver’s healed, my kidneys are healed, I lost over a hundred pounds (45 kilograms) just by being and choosing happy thoughts and choosing love, and serving any chance I get, and just loving people. And doing this — I really believe that’s what healed me. Using my imagination for good, imagining good things for people, imagining good things for myself. This was my healing. This was the new me. If you could see where I was and who I was to who I am today, I mean, it’s just mind-blowing. I’m unrecognizable. It’s to that point, to that extent. I don’t even look like the old pictures of Lisa. It’s like looking at a stranger.

Enlightening quote of the day: “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” - The Venerated Enlightened Master Patriarch Bodhidharma (vegan)