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Morning Intelligence – The Gist Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years + 3 months for orchestrating a failed 2022 coup attempt—Brazil’s first former head of state jailed for attacking democratic order. Four of five justices found him guilty of plotting to abolish constitutional rule and leading an armed criminal group;…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Brent crude sliding to $65.88 and WTI to $61.86 marks oil’s steepest one-day fall since 2022, driven by a 3.9 million-barrel U.S. stock-build and an IEA projection that global supply will outpace demand through mid-2026. (reuters.com) Yet Riyadh and its OPEC partners added 478,000 bpd in August and plan another…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Russian drones breaching 300 km into Polish airspace—16 shot down, fragments scattered across seven provinces—force Warsaw to invoke NATO Article 4 and prompt an emergency UN Security Council session today(reuters.com). Brussels brands the incursion “aggressive, reckless,” while Berlin rushes extra Patriots east and the Netherlands deploys F-35s, underscoring how a…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Israel’s precision strike on a Hamas negotiating cell in Doha—killing six, including Khalil al-Hayya’s son—turned Qatar, the Gulf state that hosts 10,000 U.S. troops, into the sixth country hit by Israeli missiles in 72 hours. The attack shattered the mediation track Washington relies on and drew rare U.S., EU and…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Charlie Kirk’s campus assassination jolts not only U.S. politics but the wider liberal-democratic world: a G-20 economy has lost a high-profile partisan voice to a gunman, just eight weeks after two attempts on former President Trump. Markets shrugged, but diplomats did not; the EU’s foreign-service called it “a warning to…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Israel’s unprecedented air-strike on Hamas leaders inside Doha—killing at least six people and breaching Qatari airspace guarded by U.S.-made Patriots—shatters the understanding that the Gulf is a neutral mediation hub. (reuters.com, apnews.com) I read the raid less as a tactical blow to Hamas than as a strategic message: Israel will…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Israel’s overnight strike on Hamas leaders meeting in Doha cracks open a new front—literally—in the Gaza war. At least six people died, according to Hamas, yet the target cadre survived. Within minutes Brent crude jumped almost 2 percent, briefly touching $67 a barrel before settling up 0.6 percent as traders…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Israel’s unprecedented air-strike on Hamas leaders in Doha has pierced the diplomatic firewall that long insulated Qatar. By hitting a US-allied energy giant that hosts 10,000 American troops, Jerusalem internationalised the Gaza war overnight and rattled LNG markets already pricing winter supply at $11.60/mmBtu, up 4 % in hours. Qatar’s…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist France’s National Assembly has ejected François Bayrou by 364-194, toppling President Macron’s fourth government in 12 months and pushing the euro-zone’s second-largest economy into uncharted territory. (reuters.com, apnews.com) Public debt sits at 114 % of GDP and servicing costs now consume 7 % of state spending—double the share before the…

Evening Analysis – The Gist France’s fourth prime minister in under two years, François Bayrou, is set to fall in tonight’s no-confidence vote—victim of a €44 billion austerity plan, 5.8 %-of-GDP deficit and public debt now at 114 % of output. All major blocs, from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally to the hard-left France Unbowed,…