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Global Summary

This week, pressure shifted from battlefields to decision points: governments in Washington, Jerusalem and Tehran weighed whether to resume the Iran war, while Europe absorbed low-cost disruption campaigns. Israel’s security cabinet ordered the military to step up preparations for a possible strike on Iran as Gadi Eisenkot works to replace Benjamin Netanyahu’s caretaker government, while Tehran awaits a US reply to a proposal that would leave the Strait of Hormuz under joint Iranian-Omani oversight. In Europe, hoax bomb emails reached thousands of schools in Italy, the UK, Ireland and France with no government assigning blame, even as France attributed the sabotage of supermarket refrigeration systems to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. In the Americas, the House shelved the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and President Trump threatened to double tariffs on Mexico as a caravan of more than 1,000 migrants moved north after Democrats won both chambers of Congress. In DRC, MSF warned that the Ebola response is failing as deaths passed 5,400, while Kenya prepares for El Niño flooding that could displace nearly 900,000 people. Xi Jinping restated Beijing’s reunification goal for Taiwan a week before meeting Trump at APEC, as Japan expanded security assistance to the Philippines and Vietnam.

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