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Evening Analysis – The Gist The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to let President Trump keep $4 billion in congressionally-approved foreign-aid funds on ice tilts the separation-of-powers balance toward an ever-expansive executive. By blessing a “pocket rescission,” the Court effectively grants the White House a de-facto line-item veto Congress has repeatedly refused to legislate. (reuters.com)…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Tehran just lost its diplomatic gamble. Early this morning the U.N. Security Council rejected a Russian-Chinese bid to delay the automatic “snap-back” of sanctions on Iran, with the motion failing 4-9 and two abstentions. The result means that as of Sunday, Tehran again faces a global arms embargo, ballistic-missile restrictions…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his UN podium today to double-down on a Gaza offensive that has already killed more than 65,000 Palestinians and displaced 90 percent of the enclave’s 2.3 million people(reuters.com). Over 100 diplomats from 50-plus countries walked out as he vowed to “finish the job,” even…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Europe’s leaders quietly crossed a monetary Rubicon overnight. Berlin signalled it could back Brussels’ proposal to leverage up to €200 billion in frozen Russian reserves to bankroll Ukraine via EU-backed bonds, while Chancellor Merz urged a parallel €140 billion interest-free loan for Kyiv’s armoury. (reuters.com) The sums matter: €200 billion…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Washington’s 21-point Gaza blueprint, floated on the UNGA sidelines, is less a peace plan than a bid to reset Middle-East leverage. It offers reconstruction funds and Arab security guarantees, yet leaves Israel’s 15-month military campaign structurally intact and says nothing about ending the blockade that throttled Gaza’s economy to 12…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist China’s new 2035 goal—cutting emissions a mere 7-10 % from peak levels—lands like a damp squib at the UN climate summit. The number sounds big until you recall that Beijing’s CO₂ output has already risen 6 % since 2020; on present trends the cut could be achieved simply by plateauing…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Brent still sits only in the mid-$80s, yet Riyadh just signalled it may raise output from December, abandoning its informal $100-a-barrel ambition even as the current 1 mbd cut remains in place. Saudi Arabia’s rethink, confirmed by market briefings carried by Reuters and the Financial Times, comes a day after OPEC+…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist OpenAI’s $500 billion “Stargate” build-out—five new U.S. data-center gigahubs with Oracle and SoftBank—signals that the scramble for AI supremacy now pivots on industrial-scale infrastructure, not clever algorithms alone. A single site in Texas will draw 900 MW—roughly the output of a mid-sized nuclear reactor—while Nvidia fronts $100 billion in chips.…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Donald Trump’s return to the U.N. rostrum—on the organization’s 80th anniversary—was less address than indictment, branding the body “corrupt” while urging states to seal borders and expel migrants. His “America First” doctrine now coincides with a 19.5 % average U.S. tariff rate, the highest since 1933, as global growth is…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Beijing’s ice-breaking welcome for a bipartisan U.S. House delegation—its first since 2019—signals a deliberate thaw in the world’s most consequential rivalry. Defence-minister Dong Jun emphasised “dialogue over confrontation,” while Rep. Adam Smith called for routine uniform-to-uniform hotlines, recalling the Cold-War “red phone” that curbed crises in 1963.(reuters.com) This overture arrives…