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, we focus on the AWS outage. As dawn broke over the Atlantic data routes, Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region faltered, sending ripples through banks, airlines, social apps, gaming, and payments from London to Tokyo. By afternoon, AWS said services “returned to normal,” yet message backlogs lingered. Why it leads: scale — a single cloud region touched 1,000+ firms; timing — mid‑shutdown data gaps deepen blind spots; and systemic risk — concentrated infrastructure creates single points of failure. Over the past year, regulators and analysts warned of cloud concentration risk; today showed how a regional gateway or DNS fault can reverberate globally. Today in

, we track the hour’s developments: - Middle East: Gaza’s fragile truce frays; local reports cite new Israeli strikes and gunfire, with U.S. envoys seeking to stabilize aid and ceasefire mechanics. Recent EU assessments flagged persistent access and safety obstacles even when crossings reopen. - Europe/Eastern Europe: Day 1,335 in Ukraine — Russian strikes cut power in the north; Kyiv continues deep strikes on Russian energy nodes, part of months of reciprocal targeting of refineries, pumping stations, and grids. - Europe domestic: The Louvre heist probe expands after a 4–7 minute crown‑jewel theft; staff had long warned of security gaps. France’s politics remain tense as leaders juggle budget and pensions. - Trade and tech: G7/EU weigh price floors to counter China’s tightening rare‑earth controls; the U.S. mulls 100% tariffs on Nicaragua and threatens broader hikes on China as Europe resists rewriting its rules. - Americas: U.S. shutdown, day 20 — courts curtailed, 900,000 furloughed, and a data blackout hampering price and jobs analysis; appeals court allows National Guard deployment to Portland. White House confirms East Wing demolition for a new ballroom. - Africa: Kenya mourns Raila Odinga amid deadly crowd control; AU suspension stands after Madagascar’s coup; Côte d’Ivoire’s fourth‑term bid stokes protests. - Markets and science: Gold remains above $4,000/oz; Nestlé signals 16,000 job cuts; a retinal implant and smart glasses restore partial vision in a study; a warning that malaria funding cuts could trigger the deadliest resurgence by 2030. Underreported, by our check: El Fasher, Sudan — roughly 260,000 trapped after 16+ months of siege, cholera rising, and documented child hunger deaths; and Myanmar’s Rakhine — over 2 million at imminent famine risk as WFP access collapses. WFP says six operations are at risk amid a steep funding fall. Today in

, we connect the threads. A tariff‑driven trade war and rare‑earth curbs increase costs for vehicles, defense, and grid equipment. Conflicts increasingly target energy systems — from Ukraine and Russia to Gaza’s fuel chokepoints — amplifying inflationary pressure. The AWS outage illustrates fragility in centralized digital infrastructure precisely as governments fly blind without official data during a shutdown. Humanitarian budgets are contracting while siege conditions intensify — a mismatch that turns economic stress into food crises and disease. Today in

- Europe: Louvre security failings collide with a broader far‑right surge debate and sanctions fatigue; NATO runs DEFENDER drills while Ukraine targets Russian energy assets. - Middle East: Gaza’s ceasefire remains brittle; aid scale‑up still stalled despite promises, per aid agencies last week. - Africa: El Fasher’s siege and hunger deepen with minimal airtime; Kenya’s funerals turn deadly; Mozambique and Mali face under‑funded crises. - Indo‑Pacific: Myanmar’s Rakhine nears famine; Japan readies a leadership shift; China’s rare‑earth lever tightens as allies seek diversification. - Americas: U.S. shutdown constrains justice and data; protests reject political violence even as federal deployments expand; Argentina clinches a swap line but the peso slides. Today in

, the questions asked — and the ones missing: - Asked: Can the U.S. and partners blunt China’s rare‑earth leverage? Will AWS and regulators curb single‑vendor risk after today’s outage? - Missing: When will secure humanitarian corridors open to El Fasher, and who funds cholera response? What is the operational plan — and financing — to restore WFP access in Rakhine? How will policymakers make evidence‑based decisions in a data blackout, and who bears the cost if outages and tariffs push up food and fuel? Cortex concludes: In this hour, a cloud hiccup exposed how much of the world runs on the same rails; wars still strike at energy lifelines; and the largest gaps are where hunger grows and funding shrinks. We track both the headlines — and what they omit. This is NewsPlanetAI — The Daily Briefing. We’ll be back on the hour.