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The WHO reports that only 1.5 percent of worldwide vaccine doses have been administered in Africa. Malian military detained the president and prime minister in a potential coup. A US official expects strong backing from G7 peers for proposed 15 percent-plus global minimum corporate tax. Analysis: Renewed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Implications for Regional De-Escalation.

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A rundown of important global developments in markets, in business, and region-by-region, as well as statistical risk assessments by country and by US state. [Flashpoint Daily Situation Reports]

Renewed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Implications for Regional De-Escalation

Three weeks ago, violence flared in Sheikh Jarrah, east Jerusalem, over evictions of Palestinian families, prompting three weeks of communal violence in Israel and missile strikes between Hamas and Israel that devastated the Gaza strip. Occurring against a backdrop of months of tentative progress towards negotiation and rapprochement in the region, the reactions to and impacts of the flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence shed light on the changing dynamics and new calculus in the Middle East.

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