Overview
- The Washington Post detailed Vatican-led contacts and a reported Russian asylum offer seeking a negotiated departure for Nicolás Maduro that collapsed, after which U.S. forces captured him and transferred him to New York for prosecution, with the raid’s death toll reported by Sky News Arabia as roughly 100.
- A federal investigation into the fatal shooting of Rene Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis is underway as protests grow, with federal officials asserting self-defense, local leaders criticizing their exclusion from the probe, and videos fueling disputes over whether the agent, identified in reports as Jonathan Ross, was in danger.
- U.S. Syria envoy Tom Brack and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi jointly urged the peaceful withdrawal of Kurdish forces from Aleppo and the immediate implementation of the March 10, 2025 integration agreement, as clashes in Sheikh Maqsoud and Al-Ashrafiya left at least 21 dead.
- Brack said he met in Damascus with President Ahmed al-Shar’ and senior officials, relayed U.S. backing for government stability, cited a renewed Syrian commitment to the 2025 framework with the SDF, and called for restraint and a return to dialogue over the Aleppo escalation.
- Sudan’s war reached its 1,000th day with estimates of 150,000 to 200,000 deaths and warnings of a vast humanitarian collapse, as civil groups pressed for accountability and urged support for the internationally backed quartet plan, while Dubai’s Billion Followers Summit awarded a $1 million AI-generated film prize to Tunisian director Zubair Al-Jalasi for “Lily.”