It's Been a Busy Week. Here's the Stuff You Missed.

As weeks go, the last seven days feel a little bit like one in which the planet vomited up an entire year's worth of news in a single, rancid belt. There was the geopolitical wildfire in the Middle East, an attack by a Ukrainian troops into the Russian blast of K ursk, chaos in Venezuela, panicking Lebanon, uproar in Bangladesh.

It was, in short, pretty intense week, whether it's left our writers, our editors, and me, exhausted from producing special episodes to cover all of this madness.

But it was also a week in which important stuff was happening away from the headlines, a week in which fascinating things unfolded regarding conflicts and places that you never really hear much about.