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Global Summary

In the Americas, Washington finalized an extensive 100-year oil concession deal in Venezuela, while Colombia and Mexico both saw major escalations in cartel and insurgent violence. In Europe and Eurasia, a rare armed clash between Ukraine's Security Service and its military intelligence agency exposed rivalry inside the country's security apparatus, even as Germany and its EU and NATO allies moved to sanction Russia over the Leipzig drone attack. The Middle East and North Africa saw a UN mission accuse the UAE, Chad, Libya, and Somalia of fueling Sudan's civil war with foreign weapons and up to 2,000 Colombian mercenary contractors, alongside intensifying mosque attacks in the occupied West Bank, a Human Rights Watch report on Tunisia's civil society crackdown, and IAEA confirmation of Syria's undeclared nuclear reactor program under al-Assad. In sub-Saharan Africa, a mutiny at Niamey's international airport tested Russia's Africa Corps deployment in Niger, and the DRC's Ebola outbreak passed 3,000 deaths to become the country's worst on record. In Asia-Pacific, Taiwan's defense ministry warned China is intensifying rehearsals for a blockade under a newly revised mobilization law, as Nepal's glacier-triggered flood has killed more than 1,270 people across Nepal and Tibet combined.

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