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Today in The World Watches, we focus on France’s political rupture. Hours after unveiling a cabinet, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned—France’s third PM in a year and fifth in under two. Debt stands near 114% of GDP; borrowing costs have jumped, and the Assembly remains fractious. This leads because timing and scale collide: a major EU economy faces governance churn just as Europe weighs defense outlays, sanctions enforcement, and industrial policy. The political slide has been months in the making—confidence votes over austerity, protests, and widening rifts inside Macron’s camp—now converging into a test of France’s capacity to pass a budget and anchor EU cohesion.

Today in Global Gist: - Gaza at two years: As dawn breaks over Egypt, indirect Israel–Hamas talks continue around a U.S.-backed sequencing (hostages, pauses, withdrawals). Announcements and misstatements over hostage numbers underscore fragile trust. European relations strain after last week’s flotilla detentions. - Ukraine: Russia intensified strikes on energy sites, hitting Naftogaz production; Ukraine’s drones keep targeting refineries and pumping stations deep in Russia, extending fuel shortages. - Czechia: ANO’s Babiš negotiates with SPD and Motorists; a right-populist foreign ministry bid signals a possible pivot from Ukraine support. - EU trade: Brussels proposes 50% duties above reduced steel quotas, bargaining for U.S. tariff relief. Europe readies a Water Resilience Strategy amid rising scarcity risks. - U.S. shutdown: Day 7; CISA authorities lapsed, staff furloughed, as debate flares over domestic deployments and Insurrection Act thresholds. - Nobel Physics: John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis honored for bringing quantum tunneling to the chip—pushing quantum computing from lab to macroscale. - Energy shift: Renewables generated more electricity than coal globally in H1 2025, driven by China and India; the U.S. and Europe saw fossil upticks on weak wind/hydro. Underreported, yet vast: - Sudan: Cholera approaches 100,000 cases with thousands dead; 30 million need aid and the health system has collapsed. Coverage remains thin relative to scale. - Myanmar (Rakhine): The Arakan Army controls most townships; up to 2 million face starvation as access corridors and pipelines become leverage. - Haiti: UN authorized a larger multinational force, but gangs still hold most of Port‑au‑Prince; funding and manpower gaps persist.

Today in Insight Analytica, a pattern emerges: fiscal fragility erodes political capacity just as shocks multiply. Energy warfare in Ukraine translates into grid strain and industrial risk across borders. Trade defenses—steel tariffs, truck levies—surface as stopgaps in a slowing, debt‑heavy world. Climate finance shortfalls collide with record heat and water stress, magnifying disease outbreaks from Sudan to the Sahel. Where states hollow—Haiti, Myanmar—armed actors control supply routes, and hunger, cholera, or displacement spike.

- Europe: France’s instability reverberates into EU budget, sanctions, and defense debates; Czech coalition math could weaken Ukraine backing; NATO airspace incidents keep pressure high. - Eastern Europe: Russian strikes degrade Ukraine’s gas output; Ukraine’s long‑range drones extend Russia’s fuel woes. - Middle East: Cairo talks continue under scrutiny; flotilla fallout strains Israel‑EU ties; Iran’s rial slide deepens import pain. - Africa: Sudan’s cholera campaign lags behind need; al‑Shabaab exploits fragmentation in Somalia; Ethiopia rolls out malaria vaccines to high-burden districts. - Indo‑Pacific: Myanmar’s Rakhine crisis worsens; China touts an AI satellite mega‑constellation; Bangladesh moves to modernize its air force; Vingroup enters steel to cut China reliance. - Americas: U.S. shutdown erodes cyber posture; Texas Guard deployments to cities face legal pushback; Haiti’s expanded mission awaits resources.

- Asked today: Can France form a durable government that can pass a budget without spooking bond markets? - Should be asked: Who funds and secures corridors for Sudan’s cholera response this quarter? What is the operational plan to avert mass hunger in Rakhine as routes become bargaining chips? How will U.S. agencies mitigate cyber risk with CISA handicapped? If renewables now top coal, what grid and storage investments avert backsliding in low-wind, low-hydro years? Cortex concludes Institutions are being stress‑tested—by markets, missiles, microbes, and megawatts. We’ll track Paris’s next move, Cairo’s sequencing, Ukraine’s energy war, and the crises too large to ignore. This is NewsPlanetAI – The Daily Briefing. Stay informed, stay steady.