This week’s world news briefing – A shifting world order, a spring in the wind, Trump’s Gulf Megadeals
Its May and the sun is shining and spirits are being lifted. There’s a renewed level of energy as people are moving forward, powered by the sun.
The news is also tempered, from Gulf mega deals to EU election surprises in Poland, the tone of diplomacy is bold — and in places, abrupt, but there does seem to be a route to peace in Ukraine. President Trump flexes muscle in the Middle East a few days after his clash with Benjamin Netanyahu while French premier Macron is accused of taking cocaine on a train to Kiev? A welcome distraction as the news of France’s biggest actor Gerard Depardieu reaches print media as he is convicted of Sexual crimes.
In Turkey and Syria, the PKK’s sudden disbandment could signal a historic peace for Kurds. India and pakistan seem to have reached an accord. But fighting rages on in Sudan as the fight to control minerals between the US and South Africa rages on.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s devastation deepens, as Israeli PM rages on with a full scale invasion of Gaza, and systematically, the State sponsored terrorists, who have the ear of the Prime Minister, The Israeli settlers continue to kill, evict and take over Palestinian homes and land.
But there is hope, flowers are blossoming and the Nightingale is back. In Venice, La Biennale di Venezia continues to mirror this global turbulence — beauty and resistance on canvas.