In today's episode, we analyze the widening conflict in the Middle East as Israel launches ground operations in Lebanon and the US struggles to rally allies for a naval coalition in the Gulf. We also track the diplomatic fallout as Washington delays a planned summit with Beijing to focus on the Iran war. Our deep dives explore the conflicting media narratives surrounding a deadly airstrike on a Kabul hospital, and the geopolitical framing of Cuba's total electrical grid collapse amid an intensifying US oil embargo. Plus, a look at King Felipe VI's rare acknowledgment of colonial abuses and the discovery of the building blocks of life on the Ryugu asteroid.

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