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• It’s been a week marked by major geopolitical, legal and public health developments across several fronts.
• In Washington, the Trump administration has indicted 94-year-old former Cuban president Raúl Castro over alleged murder and conspiracy to kill US nationals, linked to the 1990s downing of two civilian aircraft — a move officials describe as long-delayed justice, but which critics see as part of a wider push on regime change.
• In Beijing, President Vladimir Putin made a rare visit to meet Xi Jinping, with carefully staged ceremony and renewed pledges of “unyielding relations”, while Ukraine reported continued deep-strike drone operations inside Russian territory.
• The World Health Organisation has also declared a Public Health Emergency over a fast-moving Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where more than 130 people have died amid ongoing conflict and rising tensions around containment efforts.
• In other developments, Air France and Airbus have been found...