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Morning Intelligence – The Gist Good morning, Torrential rains-turned-floods across five Mexican states have now killed 72 people, with 48 still missing and 100,000 homes damaged. President Claudia Sheinbaum’s overnight brief underscored a rescue operation spanning 9,000 soldiers and engineers after 21 inches of rain fell in three days – a one-in-100-year deluge, according to…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Repair crews finally reached Zaporizhzhia today after Kyiv, Moscow and the IAEA carved out twin 1.5-km “silent zones,” allowing engineers to reconnect the plant’s two severed high-voltage lines after 26 days on diesel back-ups. Europe’s largest nuclear facility, with six idle reactors, has now lost external power 42 times since…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Good morning, The fragile Israel-Hamas cease-fire, now one week old, is already fraying. Hamas negotiators told Reuters they will not disarm and intend to retain security control during a five-year reconstruction pause, directly colliding with U.S. and Israeli demands for demilitarisation. (reuters.com) On the ground, the promised “humanitarian surge” has…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Good evening, 18:32. Dutch seizure of Chinese-owned Nexperia and Beijing’s counter-ban on its Chinese plants have halted delivery of the low-margin “jelly-bean” diodes that power everything from seat-belt sensors to EV inverters. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation warns U.S. production lines could stall within weeks, while Nexperia’s 40 % share…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist A U.S. Justice-Department watchdog has asked a bankruptcy judge to appoint an independent examiner at First Brands, the auto-parts conglomerate that imploded last month after a $2.3 billion balance-sheet hole emerged. The move, revealed in overnight court filings, follows FT data showing that some $5 billion of First Brands’ loans…

Evening Analysis – The Gist German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Bundestag appeal for a single European stock exchange is the boldest push yet to end the EU’s 500-venue fragmentation, where barely 30 % of share trading is transparent. Euronext and Deutsche Boerse immediately endorsed the call, framing it as Europe’s answer to the NYSE drain on…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist The overnight jolt came from Washington: President Trump says Prime Minister Modi has “committed” to end India’s Russian-oil purchases—roughly 1.7 m b/d, or 40 % of India’s crude imports. Brent jumped 1 % on the headline, signalling traders already pricing a supply squeeze and a steeper Kremlin discount. (reuters.com) If…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Israel’s fragile Gaza cease-fire is fraying. ​Hamas has returned only 8 of 28 dead hostages; one of the four bodies handed over yesterday was mis-identified, triggering Israel to slash the daily aid quota to roughly 300 trucks—half of what the deal promised—and to keep the Rafah crossing shut (reuters.com) The…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Beijing’s fresh squeeze on rare-earth exports has jolted Brussels into rallying the G7—and, pointedly, Washington—behind a joint response. EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič warns that Chinese licensing delays have already idled European plants, underscoring a structural imbalance: China refines roughly 90 % of global rare-earths, yet the materials underpin €7…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Belgium’s one-day general strike rippled far beyond the Grand-Place. Some 80,000 marchers clogged Brussels as security walkouts shut every departure at the nation’s two main airports and sliced metro service to a skeleton, stranding an estimated 200,000 travelers. Unions say Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s plan to lift the pension…