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Evening Analysis – The Gist Europe’s overnight communiqué backing Kyiv—hours after Washington confirmed a 15 August Trump-Putin summit in Alaska—signals mounting unease that peace could be negotiated over Ukraine’s head. Reuters notes that Zelenskyy controls barely 80 % of his country’s territ…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Donald Trump’s decision to host Vladimir Putin in Alaska on 15 August—the first U.S.–Russia summit held on American soil since Governors Island in 1988—signals a return to great-power bargaining over the heads of smaller states. The meeting’s avowed aim is a Ukr…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Turkey’s call for an emergency OIC summit has catalyzed an unusually swift, 20-nation Muslim bloc—and drawn in Germany, France and Canada—against Israel’s newly approved plan to seize Gaza City. Berlin has already frozen export licences, and UN Security Council memb…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Good morning. Haiti’s battered state just replaced its police chief for the third time in 18 months, elevating Vladimir Paraison—an ex-palace security head who hobbled to Friday’s swearing-in on the same cane he earned fighting gang gunfire. Paraison inherits a …

Evening Analysis – The Gist Good evening. Armenia and Azerbaijan will sign a U.S.-brokered framework in Washington tomorrow, ending 34 years of war and opening the “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” — a multimodal corridor linking Baku to Nakhchivan through southern Armenia. …

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Washington’s abrupt vow to slap a 100 % duty on imported semiconductors—an industry worth $600 bn a year—signals that U.S. trade policy is now an extension of great-power rivalry. Within hours, Intel shed 3 % of its value, while allies from Taiwan to Germany scr…

Evening Analysis – The Gist The Bank of England’s razor-thin 5-4 vote to trim Bank Rate to 4 percent—the fifth cut in a year and the lowest since March 2023—signals less a pivot than a high-wire act. Markets initially cheered, yet gilt yields and sterling firmed as traders priced in fewer futu…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Guangdong’s skies delivered the region’s heaviest August deluge since 1884—Guangzhou logged its second-worst August rainfall on record, grounding hundreds of flights and prompting Beijing to release ¥1 billion ($139 m) in emergency aid. Flood-pooled water is tur…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Good evening, 18:32. Ukraine’s AI-guided drones have knocked two of Rosneft’s refineries offline, slicing roughly 5 % of Russia’s processing capacity; Moscow’s response is to divert the crude abroad, adding an extra 200,000 bpd via its western ports and nudging tota…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Israel’s reported plan to re-occupy Gaza—now confirmed by Reuters, AP and Deutsche Welle—would jolt a region already reeling from nearly two years of war. Netanyahu’s security chiefs are weighing a full takeover despite 61,000 Palestinian deaths, UN-estimated fa…