Global Summary

The Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC, declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO on May 17, expanded through the week into Nord-Kivu, M23-controlled South Kivu, and Kampala, prompting Uganda to close its border with the DRC and India and the African Union to postpone the Fourth India-Africa Forum Summit indefinitely. Iran's post-ceasefire nuclear negotiations edged toward collapse after Washington rejected Tehran's latest counterproposal as insufficient, with Trump holding off a planned resumption of strikes only after Gulf Arab leaders intervened directly. Russia conducted its largest nuclear exercise in years from May 19-21, delivering munitions to field storage in Belarus concurrently with Putin's Beijing summit, where the Xi-Putin joint statement targeted Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense architecture and signaled a consolidated front against U.S. unilateralism. Bolivia's capital entered its second week under siege as protest coalitions backed by ex-President Morales expanded demands to include President Paz's resignation, while in Guerrero, Mexico, the cartel group Los Ardillos used drone-dropped explosives to displace up to 1,000 indigenous community members, the latest marker in an escalating forced displacement crisis.

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