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Morning Intelligence – The Gist Good morning. Overnight, Belgrade’s student-led uprising escalated as riot police fired tear-gas and armoured vehicles into crowds across five Serbian cities, wounding at least 75 officers and arresting 114 people; protesters answered with flares at landmarks st…

Evening Analysis – The Gist The Trump-Putin encounter opening tonight at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson is less a photo-op than the first real test of whether Washington can still co-shape Europe’s security order. For the first time since 2019, the two presidents sit alone while artillery sti…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Good morning. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will sit down in Anchorage at 11:00 a.m. local time today—the first U.S.-hosted U.S.–Russia summit since 2007 and the first Trump-Putin meeting since Helsinki 2018. The White House slotting just six hours on the grou…

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.…

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”…

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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