Australia issued an ultimatum to public universities over antisemitism, requiring institutions to also disclose vice chancellors’ pay and external roles held by senior executives.
Japan has emerged as an unlikely node in Russian espionage, with O Globo reporting that the Kremlin has turned the country into a “factory” for recruiting spies and accessing military technology.
Costa Rica is confronting the deep infiltration of organized crime into its football system, with La Nación detailing a 15-year timeline of murders, shootings, match-fixing, and drug trafficking linked to the sport. Separately, authorities seized a record 560 kilograms of liquid cocaine from a fishing vessel in the Pacific.
India’s National Conference party announced a sit-in at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to demand restoration of statehood for Jammu and Kashmir, while a CBI investigation into the Twisha death case advanced after an AIIMS Delhi report confirmed skin tissue on a gym belt linked to the crime.
The weekend’s events — from the corridors of power in Washington to the streets of Miami, from the Strait of Hormuz to a couture workshop in Venezuela — serve as a reminder of how quickly the world’s crises can multiply and intersect. The week ahead promises no reprieve.
