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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,…

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 unmatc…

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…

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 ca…

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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,…

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 territ…

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 Ukr…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Turkey’s call for an emergency OIC summit has catalyzed an unusually swift, 20-nation Muslim bloc—and drawn in Germany, France and Canada—against Israel’s newly approved plan to seize Gaza City. Berlin has already frozen export licences, and UN Security Council memb…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Good morning. Haiti’s battered state just replaced its police chief for the third time in 18 months, elevating Vladimir Paraison—an ex-palace security head who hobbled to Friday’s swearing-in on the same cane he earned fighting gang gunfire. Paraison inherits a …