The Global News Podcast covers a range of international stories, including a controversial US and Israeli-backed aid group distributing food in Gaza amidst skepticism and criticism from the UN and local residents. It also reports on a car ramming into a crowd celebrating Liverpool Football Club's title parade, the cholera outbreak in Sudan due to the ongoing conflict, and the global race for critical minerals essential for green energy. Additionally, the podcast discusses Japan's plan to use decontaminated soil from the Fukushima nuclear plant in public works projects, the dangers of the "Run It Straight Challenge" after a death in New Zealand, the increasing deaths related to nitrous oxide addiction in the US, a new antibiotic in late-stage trials, King Charles' upcoming speech in Canada amid concerns about US expansionism, and the discovery of a potentially 43,000-year-old Neanderthal art.