French Guiana Heritage Repatriation: France’s National Assembly has given final approval to a bill clearing the way to return human remains held in Paris from the 1892 “human zoos” exhibition, including six Kali’na individuals exhibited in the Jardin d’Acclimatation—an important legal step toward repatriation to French Guiana. Space & Industry Watch: Planet Labs Germany and Isar Aerospace signed a deal to fly a German-built Pelican satellite on Isar’s Spectrum rocket, but the launch vehicle has yet to reach orbit and has seen multiple scrubs/aborts—raising stakes for European small-satellite delivery timelines and Berlin manufacturing plans. Weather Tech: Airbus and the European Space Agency are building the Aeolus-2 laser satellite in the UK to improve heatwave and hurricane forecasting up to 24 hours earlier, aiming to avoid past forecast embarrassments. Regional Infrastructure Tension: Guyana says it has received no official word from Suriname about unilateral plans to finance and own the $236m Corentyne River Bridge, while Suriname previously announced it would bypass the bilateral framework. Migration & Border Routes: Cubans are increasingly using a route through Suriname and French Guiana to reach Brazil, with Oiapoque seeing a surge in refuge requests and investigations into suspected smuggling and extortion networks. Energy & Environment: Petrobras has begun drilling in the Equatorial Margin near the Amazon mouth, as scientists warn the little-studied Amazon reef system could be vulnerable to ecological damage from potential spills.