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Today in The World Watches, we focus on Gaza’s ceasefire and the US-brokered summit in Egypt. As dawn breaks over Gaza City, the first-phase exchange has freed all 20 living Israeli hostages while Israel releases about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners—alongside disputed remains for at least four Israelis. Our checks show this framework accelerated over the past week after Israel’s cabinet ratified the deal and preparations for aid corridors intensified. Neither Israel nor Hamas attended the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, but leaders endorsed a phased plan to pause fighting, scale aid, and set timelines for further exchanges. The story leads for its humanitarian stakes, regional spillover risk, and the test it poses for verification mechanisms at Gaza’s crossings and along the Lebanon frontier.

Today in Global Gist: the Netherlands seized Nexperia from China’s Wingtech amid US export-control pressure; Beijing retaliated by banning China-made exports from the firm and expanding rare-earth curbs—an escalation now drawing G7 coordination. France’s reappointed PM Sébastien Lecornu readies a €30 billion austerity plan; opposition threatens no-confidence. Germany reports inflation up to 2.4% and a survey showing only 5% of workers fear AI job loss. NGOs welcome Lebanon’s pursuit of justice for a 2023 strike that killed a Reuters journalist. In Madagascar, President Rajoelina says a coup is underway after elite CAPSAT forces turned; France evacuated him as youth-led protests swell. South Sudan’s move to prosecute Riek Machar raises fears of renewed civil war. In the Americas, Haiti’s gangs hold roughly 90% of Port-au-Prince; the UN has authorized a larger force but funding remains thin. Tech and industry: Google plans $9 billion in South Carolina data centers; Oura raises $900 million; SpaceX’s Starship completes its 11th test flight. Sport and culture: Dorothee Elmiger wins the German Book Prize. Underreported, flagged by our historical checks: Sudan’s hunger and cholera emergency—25 million acutely food insecure; siege-driven famine in El Fasher persists. Myanmar’s Rakhine catastrophe—with 2 million at imminent famine risk and severe access blockages—continues with scant daily coverage. The World Food Programme’s roughly 40% funding shortfall is forcing ration cuts from Somalia to Ethiopia.

Today in Insight Analytica, the threads converge: export controls and tariff spirals drive up costs for EVs, defense, and chips just as supply chains shift from efficiency to resilience. Energy warfare in Ukraine and storms from the US East Coast to Alaska are stressing grids and budgets. Meanwhile, shrinking aid—WFP cuts and national austerity—meets expanding need in Sudan, Myanmar, and Haiti, deepening displacement–disease–hunger loops. Political volatility—from Madagascar’s mutiny to France’s budget fight—erodes bandwidth to manage systemic risk.

Today in Regional Rundown: - Europe: Nexperia’s seizure tests EU industrial security; Brussels eyes a G7 line on China’s rare-earth curbs. France’s austerity push collides with fragile politics. - Eastern Europe: Russia intensifies strikes on Ukraine’s energy; Czechia’s new coalition signals ending direct state military aid to Kyiv. - Middle East: Gaza’s truce holds tenuously; Lebanon-Israel friction endures; Syria’s transition shows fitful progress. - Africa: Madagascar’s crisis widens; Sudan’s famine and cholera remain dire; Mozambique’s displacement surges with an 11% funded response. - Indo-Pacific: China touts quantum radar advances; Pony.ai and WeRide win Hong Kong listing approval; Myanmar’s Rakhine access remains blocked. - Americas: US government shutdown enters day 12; Haiti’s expanded UN force needs resources to matter; Brazil’s top court keeps Bolsonaro under house arrest.

Today in Social Soundbar: - Asked: Can G7 secure alternative rare-earth supplies within 90 days to buffer China’s curbs? - Not asked enough: What real-time verification—sensors, neutral monitors, hotline protocols—will police Gaza’s truce and prevent Lebanon spillover? - Asked: How will France’s €30B cuts affect EU development and humanitarian budgets? - Not asked enough: When do secure corridors open for El Fasher and Rakhine, and who guarantees them? - Asked: Will the UN’s expanded Haiti mission receive the funding, airlift, and rules of engagement to reclaim key districts? - Not asked enough: Which WFP operations shutter first, and how many lose rations this quarter? Cortex concludes Headlines trace momentum; omissions reveal where suffering deepens. We’ll keep watch on both. This is NewsPlanetAI – The Daily Briefing. Stay informed, stay steady.