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Evening Analysis – The Gist Sebastien Lecornu’s premiership lasted just 27 days; today’s dawn resignation delivers France its third prime-ministerial collapse in a year and the briefest since the Fifth Republic’s birth in 1958, wiping 1.2 % from the CAC-40 and pushing 10-year OAT yields to 3.6 %. (theguardian.com) With the deficit already at 5.8…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Israel’s war cabinet woke to a new arithmetic: two far-right ministers threaten to quit if Benjamin Netanyahu endorses President Trump’s 20-point Gaza cease-fire, yet polls show 62 % of Israelis now prioritise hostage release over “total victory.” A split would erase the coalition’s four-seat margin and trigger elections it would…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Lviv awoke to the war’s new arithmetic: 500 drones + 50 missiles = one obliterated family, a darkened grid and NATO jets scrambled over Poland. Russia’s overnight barrage—its largest against western Ukraine—killed at least five, wrecked gas lines and sliced power to 70,000 homes. The Kremlin insists it hit “military-industrial”…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Israel’s overnight strikes killed at least 36 Palestinians even after President Trump ordered an “immediate” halt once Hamas signalled readiness to release hostages under a U.S.-brokered deal; Gaza’s war death-toll now tops 67,000, local officials say.(reuters.com) The apparent split between Washington’s ultimatum and Israel’s battlefield calculus underscores a hard lesson…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš’s ANO movement has captured roughly 36 % of the vote in the Czech Republic’s 4 October election, a 13-point lead over the ruling Spolu alliance and the party’s best result since 2017 (reuters.com). Financial Times tallies put ANO on course for at least 72 of the…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Israel’s Gaza calculus shifted overnight. Hamas publicly accepted key elements of Donald Trump’s 20-point plan and offered to release every Israeli hostage—alive or dead—while ceding day-to-day control of the strip to a technocratic authority. Trump responded by demanding an “immediate” halt to Israeli air-strikes; yet within hours F-16s were again…

Evening Analysis – The Gist A lone assailant chose Yom Kippur to ram worshippers and stab a guard outside Manchester’s Heaton Park synagogue, killing two and wounding three before police shot him dead. Greater Manchester Police call it terror; three accomplices are in custody. The attack follows a 42 % rise in U.K. antisemitic incidents…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist The Valdai forum in Sochi offered the clearest window yet into how Moscow will weaponise the new tariff wars. Vladimir Putin warned that pressuring India and China with punitive levies to curb Russian energy ties would “boomerang” via higher commodity prices and force the U.S. Federal Reserve to keep rates…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Global tax fraud isn’t a victimless white-collar crime—it is a quiet siphon on public budgets, now bleeding the EU of about €50 billion each year. European chief prosecutor Laura Kövesi’s warning in Athens comes as her office’s “Calypso” probe froze 2,435 China-linked containers and exposed at least €800 million in…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Gold pierced $3,895 /oz overnight—up 45 % year-to-date—after weak U.S. jobs data reignited bets on Fed cuts and pushed the 2-yr Treasury yield to a two-week low. Asian bourses instantly repriced risk: Taiwan +1.5 %, Korea +2.8 %, Nikkei +0.5 %. The flight to safety wiped 0.4 % off the…