The US escalates its pressure campaign on Venezuela with a naval blockade and military threats, prompting a defiant response from Caracas and calls for mediation from regional powers. In Brussels, EU leaders agree to a €90 billion loan for Ukraine, but only after a contentious summit that revealed deep divisions over a plan to use frozen Russian assets as collateral. Our deep dives analyze the competing media narratives surrounding the Venezuelan blockade and deconstruct the legal and political anxieties that shaped the EU's final decision on funding for Kyiv. We also cover a major US arms sale to Taiwan, violent unrest in Bangladesh, a UN report on a massacre in Sudan, and a scientific breakthrough in brain-computer interface technology.

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