Our daily safari around the world

🐳 Orcas attacked and sank a boat near the Mediterranean Sea for the seventh time since 2020. On Sunday, a pod of orcas repeatedly rammed into a yacht off the coast of Morocco, with all passengers safely evacuating before the ship sank. Researchers say a group of ~15 orcas collectively named “The Free Willies” “Gladys” is behind all of the recent incidents, and argue their behavior isn’t intentionally malicious but rather related to their curiosity, their fondness for play, or some form of caution.

🇺🇦 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Ukraine as US aid begins to arrive. Blinken met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday to kick off a two-day trip aimed at facilitating the delivery of ~$60 billion in US military aid recently approved by Congress. Blinken’s visit came days after Russia launched a renewed offensive in northeastern Ukraine, which analysts describe as its most significant border incursion since the early days of the war.

🇬🇪 Georgia (the country) approved a controversial “foreign agents” law in the face of mass protests. Georgia’s parliament passed the new law in an 84-30 vote on Tuesday, meaning all domestic media and nongovernmental organizations must now register as foreign agents if they receive 20+% of their funding from abroad. Tens of thousands of Georgians have gathered daily in Tbilisi for nearly a month to protest the legislation, which critics frame as a Russian attempt to extend its legal standards to former Soviet countries and prevent Georgia from joining the EU.