| Israel will make a fresh plan this week on how to achieve its goals in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, urging national unity in the face of global outrage at the humanitarian toll in the Palestinian territory. Negotiations on a new truce with Iran-backed Hamas stalled last month, leaving the almost two-year conflict at another impasse as United Nations warnings of famine and malnutrition grow more dire.  Palestinians prepare free food at a charity kitchen in Gaza City yesterday. Photographer: Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg Even as Israeli attacks damaged Iran’s capacity to make new nuclear fuel, it eliminated monitoring of the Islamic Republic’s vast inventory of enriched uranium, leaving the possibility that Tehran has taken its stockpile to a clandestine facility. With the UN nuclear watchdog prohibited from inspecting for the first time since Iran began making fuel in the early 2000s, the dilemma is how to respond. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was placed under house arrest yesterday, intensifying a dispute with the Trump administration that’s seen the US leader threaten to impose 50% tariffs on imports from Latin America’s biggest economy. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who was sanctioned by the US over what Trump called a witch hunt against Bolsonaro, ordered the move on the grounds the ex-president had violated a social-media ban for the second time while awaiting trial on an alleged coup attempt. The US is exploring ways to equip chips with better location-tracking capabilities, a senior White House official said in an interview, underscoring Washington’s effort to curtail the flow of semiconductors to China. Beijing, which is particularly sensitive to any sanctions designed to counter Huawei or rising AI developers like DeepSeek, summoned Nvidia representatives last week to discuss US efforts around location-tracking and other alleged security risks related to its H20 chips.  WATCH: Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, speaks on Bloomberg TV about the plans. Chile’s financial market is preparing for the victory of ultra-conservative candidate José Antonio Kast in presidential elections this year, unfazed by the rise of a communist contender in the ruling alliance. Almost 80% of 28 analysts and traders said in a survey the market has entirely or partially priced in a win for Kast, and none saw assets showing any chance of a victory for Jeannette Jara, or for center-right candidate Evelyn Matthei. The Philippines’ House of Representatives yesterday asked the Supreme Court to reverse its decision nullifying the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte over an apparent threat to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Israel’s cabinet voted to sack the country’s attorney general, whom it’s been trying to oust for months, but the Supreme Court quickly blocked the move pending a review. South Africa’s finance minister asked Johannesburg’s mayor to explain how the nation’s richest city will recoup 24.4 billion rand ($1.4 billion) of funds squandered in “unauthorized, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.”  A street vendor in the Maboneng area of Johannesburg on Friday. Photographer: Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg | 
