Bloomberg: “Given the prevailing headwinds, who could have predicted that Italy under Giorgia Meloni would emerge as a relative bastion of stability?”

 “Hers is an exception, though. The truth is that much of Europe looks close to ungovernable.”

Argentina president Javier Milei was whisked away from a rally by security when protesters started lobbing rocks and bottles at him, the Daily Beast reports.

“The investigation into President Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, began to pick up momentum during the Biden administration, when U.S. intelligence officials collected information that appeared to show that he had mishandled classified information,” the New York Times reports.

“The United States gathered data from an adversarial country’s spy service, including emails with sensitive information that Mr. Bolton, while still working in the first Trump administration, appeared to have sent to people close to him on an unclassified system.”

“France, Germany, and the U.K. sent a letter Thursday morning to members of the UN Security Council announcing they are triggering the ‘snapback’ mechanism to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran, which had been suspended under the 2015 nuclear deal,” Axios reports.