Global Summary

Iran's drone strike on Kuwait International Airport on June 3 killed one person and injured more than 60 others, marking one of the sharpest escalations since the US-Iran conflict began, and threatening a fragile Gulf ceasefire framework. In Lebanon, Israel and the Lebanese government reached a conditional ceasefire in Washington, but Hezbollah rejected the deal outright, and Israeli strikes continued killing at least eight people on June 4 alone. Colombia held its first-round presidential election on June 1 under active conflict conditions, sending a former FARC commander and a security-first conservative to a June 29 runoff as President Petro ordered airstrikes against FARC dissidents in Guaviare. In eastern DRC, ADF attacks in Beni territory killed at least 28 people between May 31 and June 1, compounding a WHO-confirmed Ebola outbreak that has now reached 344 confirmed cases across 24 health zones with contact tracing at just 45 percent. Russia's St. Petersburg International Economic Forum opened June 3 with delegations from 130 countries and a first US participant since 2017, signaling a degree of diplomatic re-engagement even as Ukraine reports its frontline has stabilized for the first time in three years.

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