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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…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Good evening, Washington has again weaponised uncertainty: at 00:01 EDT the US federal government shuttered after Congress failed to pass even a stop-gap budget. Roughly 750,000 civil servants were furloughed and another 1.4 million will work without pay; the Congressional Budget Office estimates a direct loss of $400 million per…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Washington has thrown down the gauntlet: President Trump has given Hamas “three-to-four days” to accept a 20-point Gaza plan that promises an immediate cease-fire, prisoner swaps and $10 bn in reconstruction aid, all under international supervision (reuters.com). Backed by Israel, Egypt and Qatar, the ultimatum lands amid a war that…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Polish police have arrested Volodymyr Z., the Ukrainian diver sought by Germany for the 2022 Nord Stream blasts that severed pipelines capable of carrying 55 billion m³ of Russian gas annually to Europe.‏(reuters.com) His capture revives the question few European leaders wish to confront: sabotage is no longer a metaphor…