DAILY NEWS Stream – January 6, 2026

Uzbekistan allows citizens to invest freely in US-registered businesses starting January 1, 2026 (Trend News Agency)

US President Trump warns the US is ready to act if Iran kills protesters amid nationwide unrest (Tuổi Trẻ)

Venezuela releases 87 more prisoners detained for protesting after the disputed 2024 election, marking a second wave of releases (Al Jazeera)

US President Trump says a joint military and law-enforcement operation captures Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife in Caracas overnight, and will face narco-terrorism and drug trafficking charges in the US (US Department of War)

Switzerland declares five days of national mourning after a New Year’s Eve bar fire in Crans-Montana kills about 40 people and injures more than 100 (Thanh Niên)

A teacher in Shandong [China] playfully disciplines late students by having them dance to a pop song, delighting classmates and going viral online. She says gentle reminders are better than harsh punishment (Dân trí)

Thousands gather in Birmingham’s Centenary Square [UK] on New Year’s Eve after fake online ads falsely promise a fireworks show. The city has not held such an event since 2017, but recurring misinformation misleads crowds for a second year. Police warn the false posts create safety risks and urge reliance on official sources (Dân trí)

Croatia is experiencing an earlier and stronger flu season than usual with nearly 30,000 cases recorded by late December 2025 and over 950 hospitalizations including five deaths (Croatia Week)

Norwegian company Vilje Bionics creates the world’s first full-arm exoskeleton that assists with shoulder, elbow, and hand movements, thus helping stroke survivors regain daily function. A commercial launch is planned for the first half of 2026 (Good News Network)

US scientists at Tennessee State University find sweet potato leaves and stems suppress breast and lung cancer cells. For lung cancer cells, Carolina Ruby sweet potato (orange-fleshed) stem and leaf extracts caused growth inhibition by over 96% (Dân trí)

Research published in the journal Nature shows a new hypertropical climate emerging in the Amazon rainforest by 2100, with more frequent hot droughts, conditions not seen on Earth in 10 million years, and rising tree mortality (Tuổi Trẻ)

The UK Met Office projects 2026 global temperatures will average around 1.46 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels marking a fourth straight year over 1.4 degrees (Thanh Niên)

Flash floods and snowfall in Afghanistan kill at least 17 people and injure 11 while destroying over 270 houses and damaging more than 1,550, with officials warning numbers may rise (India Today)

A study by Chinese researchers at Tsinghua University find global wildfires emit around 143 million tons of organic compounds yearly which is approximately 21% more than prior estimates, with hotspots in Equatorial Asia, Northern Hemisphere Africa, and Southeast Asia (Respiratory Therapy)

China unveils CHIEF1900, the world’s most powerful hypergravity centrifuge, surpassing its own CHIEF1300. The machine generates 1,900 g-tonnes — the effective weight of one tonne under 1900× Earth gravity — to simulate extreme forces, allowing decades-long or kilometer-scale phenomena, like geological evolution, to be studied in days (Interesting Engineering)

In Greece’s Cyclades Islands, the new Cyclades Digital Pass introduces a cashless travel system that streamlines payments for ferries, lodging, and transport (Travel and Tour World)

UK vegan mum Ami lost over 28 kilograms eating vegan sweet treats like lemon ice cream made of frozen bananas, and apple pie cheesecake, which contains chickpeas, oats, dates, and tofu while avoiding diets and sharing recipes online (The Sun)

US non-profit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine dietitians publish a letter correcting errors in an Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ position paper that wrongly linked vegan and vegetarian diets with vitamin D deficiency (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)

UK brand Nolo launches the nation’s first decaf vegan cold brew oat latte, with around 20% of an adult’s recommended daily fiber intake using Jerusalem artichoke, and citrus for creaminess with no added sugar (FoodBev Media)

Croatia’s Central State Office for Croats Outside Croatia allocates around €1.8 million through its second 2025 public call, funding approximately 300 projects for Croatian communities in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Kosovo, and elsewhere (Croatia Week)

City of Lanús [Argentina] bans horse-people from pulling carts starting January 1 under a law recognizing equine-individuals as sentient beings. The measure says horse-persons rescued from offenders have rights to dignified living and permanent freedom (Noticias Ambientales)

Türkiye signs 18 healthcare cooperation agreements, including in the areas of technology, training, and pharmaceuticals, with 11 countries across three continents in 2025 and now cooperates with over 100 nations through more than 300 deals (Türkiye Today)

Thoughtful quote of the day: “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” – General George S. Patton Commander of the 3rd, 7th and 15th United States Armies

In a moment, was like all of eternity. Imagine past, present, and future all at once, time being completely timeless. American musician and writer Rex Finfgeld shares how a devastating fall left him hovering between life and death and opened him into an experience of infinite consciousness. Rex was living in Denver, Colorado, when his life abruptly changed in 2011. He fell 8 meters headfirst onto concrete, suffering extensive injuries and entering a prolonged medical crisis.

It’s all in the police report, first respondent reports, my medical records. Everything I’m going to tell you is all in my records. I hit the concrete headfirst, and I was in a coma for five days. A cracked vertebra. I think about eight ribs. I broke my pelvis in four places, destroyed my elbow, torn rotator cuff, and then the list goes on. It’s hard to say how long my heart officially stopped, because what I understand is that while I was in the coma, especially the first couple of days, I went into respiratory crash a number of different times. According to one of my doctors, who was part of the trauma unit, apparently, there were a couple of times they really thought they had lost me.

As his body repeatedly crashed, Rex describes a shift in awareness that occurred independent of his physical condition. I didn’t have any sense of my body. I didn’t have any sense of the person that is Rex, necessarily. I was still me. I was still very cognizant and conscious. I was completely aware, and if anything, I was more lucid and mindful than at any moment, even in my waking life, if you will.

Rex says he had no sense of his body and did not experience traveling anywhere, describing a vast, timeless awareness instead. Imagine like all of space, whatever the expanse of the Universe or even a multiverse may really be, all at once. Imagine past, present, and future all at once. Time being completely timeless. It was all the dark, all the light, and everything in between, all at once. But underlying all of that, is that feeling of love. And I don’t even know if I’m going to call it a feeling. I wasn’t really experiencing love, as I was love.

Rex says his identity expanded beyond thought or form. I was not a collection of thoughts. I literally was the mind, the thought, the imagination that gives rise to creation itself. For a moment, I was the source, Divine being — whatever terminology you want to use for that. He emphasizes that what he encountered was universal, not personal.

Having that experience, I’ve come to realize, this is what we all are. I didn’t have this experience because I’m different from anybody else. This is what we all are at our core. When he returned to his body, the awareness did not disappear.

I didn’t go somewhere and come back, and somehow I lost that. The proverbial lights are still on. The veil’s still lifted. All of that, I’m still experiencing.

He describes an ongoing sense of connection with loved ones and ancestral presence. I’m very aware that my mother is with me. I’m very aware that my loved ones are with me. The experience also changed how Rex perceives and creates.

I never had any actual formal training in that. I’ve got over 40 pieces of music I’ve written in just the past few years, and I don’t know what key anything’s in because I just envision the music in my mind. And for some reason, I’m not an engineer and never had training for that either, but I see the frequencies in my mind, and I’m able to do mixing and mastering, so the pieces actually start to sound good.

At the same time, other abilities diminished. Things that were strengths for me before, physiologically speaking, I had an impeccable memory, almost a photographic memory. And now, I’m none of those things. His empathy and intuition intensified, reshaping daily life. My empathy, my intuition, my sensitivities, my feelings are also acutely increased. I mean, it’s exponentially so much stronger. I feel things, I sense things like I never have before.

For Rex, the experience revealed what he describes as an infinite, loving consciousness at the core of existence—and a belief that even in the darkest moments, there is a way through. There is always a way through, and that starts with just letting yourself believe that those possibilities exist. Just start with baby steps.