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2025-09-15 • The Doha summit tests post-Abraham Accords stability. Israel’s strike on Hamas in Qatar threatens normal
Morning Intelligence – The Gist The Doha emergency Arab-Islamic summit, convening today, is more than regional theatre; it is a stress-test of the post-Abraham-Accords order. A leaked draft warns that Israel’s 9 September strike on Hamas officials in Qatar “threatens everything achieved on the…
Read More2025-09-14 • Israel’s Gaza demolition, killing 40, coincides with U.S. Sec. Rubio’s mediation
Evening Analysis – The Gist Israel’s overnight demolition of at least 30 apartment blocks in Gaza City—killing 40 and displacing thousands—coincides with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s arrival to “re-energise” mediation efforts derailed by last week’s Israeli strike in Doha, Qatar (reu…
Read More2025-09-14 • China warns Manila to stop provocations, amid plans to control Scarborough Shoal. This affects Philippine
Morning Intelligence – The Gist China’s Southern Theatre Command used yesterday’s routine patrol to deliver a blunt warning to Manila: “stop provocations or bear the consequences.” (reuters.com) Beijing’s rhetoric follows its plan—announced 3 days earlier—to ring-fence Scarborough Shoal as a “…
Read More2025-09-13 • Kamchatka’s quake highlights the “Ring of Fire” risk to global supply chains, urging better
Evening Analysis – The Gist Good evening, Kamchatka’s 7.4-magnitude jolt is a reminder that the “Ring of Fire” is the world’s most globalized supply chain—one built of tectonic plates, not container ships. The quake, 112 km east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and only 39 km deep, triggered Pacifi…
Read More2025-09-13 • Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced ex-president Bolsonaro to 27 years for a failed coup. First former president
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 …
Read More2025-09-12 • Brent at $65.88, WTI at $61.86 mark steep oil fall;
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 partner…
Read More2025-09-12 • Russian drones breach Polish airspace; NATO reacts.
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,…
Read More2025-09-11 • Israeli strike in Qatar disrupts diplomacy, raises tensions.
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 trac…
Read More2025-09-11 • Kirk’s assassination highlights rising political violence.
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 diplo…
Read More2025-09-10 • Israel’s airstrike in Doha disrupts Gulf neutrality.
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…
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