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2025-09-07 • Russia’s largest air raid on Ukraine escalates tensions.
Evening Analysis – The Gist Good evening, Russia’s overnight launch of roughly 805–810 Shahed-type drones and a dozen missiles against Ukraine marks the largest air raid of the war, igniting Kyiv’s Cabinet building and killing at least 4 people, including an infant; Ukrainian defenses shot dow…
Read More2025-09-07 • Russia’s major drone barrage hits Kyiv; strains defenses.
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Russia’s largest drone-missile barrage since spring ripped through Kyiv before dawn, killing a one-year-old and wounding at least 11, while setting homes ablaze in both the Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts and briefly igniting the roof of the Cabinet of M…
Read More2025-09-06 • Beirut’s tensions rise; Hezbollah resists disarmament.
Evening Analysis – The Gist Beirut’s political theatre turned combustible again today. Hezbollah ministers stormed out of cabinet as a U.S.–backed army plan to monopolise all heavy weapons resurfaced, while Israel privately notified Washington that it is “preparing a limited ground incursion” …
Read More2025-09-06 • U.S. jobs weak, unemployment up; economic concerns rise.
Morning Intelligence – The Gist The August U-S jobs print landed with a thud: just 22 000 payroll gains and an unemployment jump to 4.3 percent, the steepest rate since 2021. Futures cheered on the prospect of cheaper money—10-year Treasuries dived to 4.07 percent—but the “bad-news-is-good-new…
Read More2025-09-05 • EU fines Google €2.95B for ad-tech self-preferencing.
Evening Analysis – The Gist Europe has just dropped a €2.95 billion ($3.5 billion) antitrust hammer on Google’s ad-tech empire, accusing it of “self-preferencing” its AdX exchange and publisher server since 2014 and giving the firm 60 days to propose remedies or face structural break-up option…
Read More2025-09-05 • Wildfire smoke: global health crisis, climate-driven fires.
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Wildfire smoke has morphed from a seasonal irritant into a global health emergency. A fresh World Meteorological Organization audit finds that 2024-25 fires injected enough fine-particle soot to rival emissions from every car and factory on Earth, helping drive …
Read More2025-09-04 • Russia’s economy strains under high rates and stagnation.
Evening Analysis – The Gist Russia’s war-inflated boom is curdling fast. Within 24 hours the central bank’s policy rate sits at a punishing 19% after an emergency hike, and Sberbank’s chief warns that the economy has already slipped into “technical stagnation” with growth forecasts cut to 1.5%…
Read More2025-09-04 • Thai politics shift: Anutin leads with 146 MPs, coalition.
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Thailand’s political kaleidoscope has reshuffled again: Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakul says he now commands 146 MPs and, crucially, the conditional backing of the 143-seat People’s Party, tipping him above the 247-vote threshold to become prime minister …
Read More2025-09-03 • Beijing’s parade: China’s strategic military display.
Evening Analysis – The Gist Good evening— Beijing’s 80th-anniversary V-Day parade was less commemoration than calibrated deterrence. Xi Jinping, flanked by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, rolled out the People’s Liberation Army’s full nuclear triad—air-launched Jinglei-1, sea-based Julang-3 an…
Read More2025-09-03 • Global bond quake sees Japan’s 30-year yield hit record.
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Japan’s 30-year yield piercing 3.28 % – its highest on record – is not an isolated tremor; it is the latest after-shock of a global bond quake that has already lifted U.S. 10-year Treasuries toward 5 % and Italian 10-year BTPs above 5 %. Investors are dumping lo…
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