Youssouf—who has held Djibouti’s top diplomat role since 2005—inherits an African Union that has been criticized for its perceived ineffectiveness in dealing with security issues, FP’s Nosmot Gbadamosi reports in Africa Brief.

The meetings in Paris came on the heels of statements from U.S. officials that called into question long-standing U.S. military support for Europe, FP’s Rishi Iyengar writes.

Many questions remain as to how the players involved will balance Kurdish goals of autonomy with the transitional Syrian government’s priority of fostering national unity, Charles Lister writes.

The humanitarian situation in Sudan—where more than 600,000 people are experiencing “catastrophic levels of hunger”—is likely to worsen with the ongoing freeze on most U.S. foreign aid, Kelsey Norman and Salah Ben Hammou write.

Ukrainian representatives, however, were left off the invite list—fueling concerns that the Trump administration is falling for the Kremlin’s war propaganda, David J. Kramer writes.

Brazil’s attorney general alleges that the plot also included plans to assassinate now-Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, his vice president, and a Supreme Court justice, FP’s Catherine Osborn reports in Latin America Brief.

Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines are watching with concern as Trump grows closer to Russia, Fabrice Deprez reports.

The move is seen as an effort by Australia to counter China’s influence—a goal that has become the focus of many of Canberra’s defense decisions in recent years, Derek Grossman wrote in 2023.

Conspicuously absent was U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who skipped the summit following weeks of tensions between Washington and Pretoria, FP’s Alexandra Sharp reports.

The latest discovery belongs to Thutmose II—whose wife, Hatshepsut, was one of Egypt’s most influential rulers, Popular Science reports. The more famous Tutankhamun’s tomb was unearthed in 1922.