10: Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima was one of 10 people killed in a military plane crash after taking off from the capital Lilongwe early Monday. The official search investigation launched after Chilima’s plane “went off the radar” was concluded on Tuesday after the rescue team found the wreck in a mountainous area with no survivors.
90: Next weekend, representatives from 90 countries will travel to Switzerland to participate in a peace summit to develop a path for sustainable peace in Ukraine. Russia said it would not be in attendance (not that it was invited), but thousands of military personnel will be on hand to provide security.
2: The UN’s World Food Program halted aid distribution from the US-built pier off Gaza on Sunday, the day after two of its warehouses were reportedly hit in an Israeli military attack to rescue four Israeli hostages – a mission that also claimed more than 200 Palestinian lives. The pier had just reopened after severe water and winds rendered it nonoperational, and the latest pause will only heighten concerns about the worsening famine in the region.
120: Before markets closed on Friday, AI leading chipmaker Nvidia’s stock was selling at about $1,150, but as of Monday, the stock was split tenfold. This essentially divided each share into 10 $120 shares to make it more affordable for investors without diluting the value of existing shares.
450,000: Over 50 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $450,000 recently washed ashore on Dauphin Island, south of Mobile, Ala. The discovery was made just a day after divers found a similar amount of drugs off the coast of Florida, and a month after $1.2 million worth of cocaine washed up on the same Alabama beach.
At the 2026 Munich Security Conference, entrepreneur and Project Liberty founder Frank McCourt makes the case that the internet, and the AI systems rapidly reshaping it, must be redesigned to serve people, not platforms.
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Sovereignty has become one of the most powerful, and least defined, words in tech policy. At the 2026 Munich Security Conference, SAP global head of government affairs, Wolfgang Dierker, explains why governments and enterprise customers are demanding more control over their data, cloud infrastructure, and AI systems amid rising geopolitical uncertainty.
On the sidelines of the 2026 Munich Security Conference, Annemarie Hou, Executive Director of the United Nations Office of Partnerships, joined Tony Maciulis to discuss the power of women leaders in global decision-making.