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  1. 01

    DR CONGO

    Ebola update.

    With DR Congo’s suspected Ebola cases now surpassing 900 (likely under-counting), aid cuts and distrust in government are complicating the medical response in rural mining towns — at least two health clinics have faced community violence. Meanwhile, Oxford scientists say they could have a vaccine within months. (NPR)

  2. 02

    UNITED STATES

    Gabbard out.

    Trump 2.0 spymaster Tulsi Gabbard has announced she’ll depart end of June, citing her husband’s cancer diagnosis. Her deputy, former CIA operative and analyst Aaron Lukas, will step in as an interim replacement. (Reuters)

  3. 03

    PAKISTAN

    Train attack.

    The separatist ‘Baloch Liberation Army’ has claimed responsibility for the bombing of a train carrying security personnel, leaving at least 23 dead. (Guardian)

  4. 04

    KAZAKHSTAN

    Nuclear delay incoming.

    Russia’s Rosatom state nuclear agency has asked for at least another full year’s delay on Kazakhstan’s first nuclear plant at Lake Balkhash, blaming financing headaches from Western sanctions. (EurasiaNet)

  5. 05

    CHINA

    Easy does it.

    China’s State Council has issued guidelines that remove key hukou (household registration) barriers for roughly 300 million rural migrant workers! It means they can now enrol in social insurance — and get easier access to schooling, housing, healthcare — where they work rather than at their registered birthplace. (SCMP)

  6. 06

    SOUTH AFRICA

    Regional huddle.

    Foreign ministers from the 16-country SADC regional bloc (South Africa, Angola, Zimbabwe, DRC and others) just wrapped a rare three-day closed-door retreat in Kruger National Park, focused on how southern Africa should respond to East-West competition, economic fragmentation, and fast-moving tech. (DevDiscourse)

  7. 07

    RUSSIA

    Putin lashes out again.

    Putin has again hit Kyiv with one of the war’s largest combined missile + drone barrages, this time featuring his vaunted Oreshnik hypersonics. He’s hit multiple apartment buildings, with the death toll at four and climbing. (EuroNews)

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