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Evening Analysis – The Gist Good evening, Ukraine’s long-range drones ripped through Russian rear areas again today, wounding at least 16 civilians in Rostov-on-Don and Belgorod and igniting a fire at Volgograd’s Lukoil refinery—just 24 hours before the Trump-Putin cease-fire summit in Alaska.(reuters.com) Kyiv’s strategy is unmistakable: move the battlefield deep inside Russia to erode…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Europe’s late-night video call with Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy was less a courtesy check-in than a last-ditch attempt to firewall Kyiv’s interests before Friday’s Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin. Berlin insisted on a pre-summit ceasefire and “robust” security guarantees, while Zelenskyy warned that ceding territory would be unconstitutional and…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Geneva’s overnight draft of the UN plastics-treaty quietly deletes every article on production caps and toxic additives, bowing to a petrochemical bloc led by Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Russia. They have pulled negotiations back to the 1990s mantra of “recycle more,” despite data showing only 9 % of plastic…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Global markets woke up to a fresh fault-line: Reuters reports that Narendra Modi is scrambling to secure a face-to-face with Donald Trump at next month’s UN General Assembly after the White House doubled U.S. tariffs on Indian goods to 50 percent — a levy unmatched since Smoot-Hawley. (reuters.com) The numbers are brutal.…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Israel’s overnight blitz on Gaza City—and the 11-plus dead it leaves—is no isolated “pressure tactic.” In the past 24 hours the enclave has recorded 89 additional civilian deaths and five starvation fatalities, taking Gaza’s war toll beyond 61,000 and hunger-related deaths to 227, as cease-fire talks in Cairo teeter once…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Washington and Beijing prolonged their fragile tariff cease-fire for another 90 days, freezing U.S. duties at 30 % and China’s at 10 %—a reprieve from the 145 %/125 % surges that had been due at midnight. Equity markets immediately added nearly $1 trillion in capitalization; Japan’s Nikkei jumped 2.7 %…

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Morning Intelligence – The Gist Australia’s sudden decision to recognize Palestine—joining France, Britain and Canada—pushes the tally of UN members endorsing Palestinian statehood to roughly 149, nearly 77 percent of the world. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese framed the move as “when, not if,” a deliberate rebuff to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s warning that recognition “rewards…

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 territory and faces a Russian force still advancing along a 1,000-km front line(aljazeera.com, reuters.com).…

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 Ukraine cease-fire, yet Kyiv was pointedly not invited and…