Politics today ranges from public health vigilance to reckonings with power and responsibility. France confirmed Europe’s first Ebola case tied to the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a doctor returned from humanitarian work and was swiftly isolated, underscoring both global interdependence and the importance of rapid containment. In Australia, tributes are flowing for former Liberal federal vice-president Teena McQueen, whose death comes just weeks after her defection to One Nation, closing a turbulent final chapter in a long political career. In the UK, a major statutory inquiry into grooming gangs has named London, Oldham, Bradford and Keighley as its first targets, signaling a broad examination of how institutions failed vulnerable children. And in international diplomacy, Iran has invited Narendra Modi to attend Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s state funeral, a gesture that now tests India’s regional balancing act.