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, we focus on the AWS outage. Before sunrise on the U.S. East Coast, a failure in Amazon’s US-EAST-1 region rippled across the globe, knocking out or degrading more than a thousand services — from Snapchat, Reddit, and Roblox to major banks in the UK — with more than 6.5 million user reports. Amazon says core issues are resolved and operations “returned to normal,” though some services lag. Why it leads: scale — AWS underpins a massive share of the internet; timing — a single-region fault cascaded during peak business hours; and systemic risk — recent Red Sea subsea cable cuts and past cloud incidents show digital infrastructure concentrates vulnerabilities. Today’s outage is a reminder: resilience hinges on redundancy that many services still lack. Today in

, we track the hour’s developments: - Middle East: The Gaza ceasefire remains fragile. Israeli fire and airstrikes after alleged Hamas breaches have killed additional civilians, even as U.S. envoys press to stabilize the deal and reopen crossings. Since the truce began, rights groups counted dozens to near 100 killed in repeated incidents. - Europe/Eastern Europe: Day 1,335 of the Ukraine war: Russian strikes cut power near Chernobyl; shelling in Kherson killed one, injured three. Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign on Russian energy nodes continues, part of months of tit-for-tat targeting of refineries, gas facilities, and pipelines. - Americas: A divided 9th Circuit allowed President Trump to deploy 200 National Guard troops to Portland. The White House began demolishing part of the East Wing for a $250 million ballroom, drawing oversight concerns. The U.S. government shutdown, now Day 20, continues to blind key economic data. - Tech/Business: Hollywood unions and studios push OpenAI for consent guardrails; Ticketmaster will ban multi-account users and shut TradeDesk after an FTC suit. Nestlé plans 16,000 job cuts through 2027. - Europe politics/security: EU weighs the next Russia sanctions package while LNG phase-out debates stall; NATO’s DEFENDER 25 exercise moves 25,000 troops. A report on Lisbon’s deadly funicular crash blames substandard cabling. Underreported, by our check: Sudan’s El Fasher — roughly 260,000 trapped under siege for 16 months with kitchens closed and a worsening cholera backdrop — and Myanmar’s Rakhine, where more than 2 million face imminent famine as WFP assistance collapses. Humanitarian funding cuts threaten 58 million globally as WFP scales down or shuts operations. Today in

, we connect the threads. Digital fragility: a single-cloud outage exposes a concentrated risk just as trade frictions rise and cyberthreats intensify. Economic fog: a prolonged U.S. data blackout from the shutdown complicates monetary and fiscal decisions amid tariff escalations and a gold surge above $4,000/oz. Conflict-energy nexus: Ukraine and Russia trade strikes on fuel and gas assets; Gaza aid hinges on fuel and corridor access. Funding cliff: as crises deepen, humanitarian pipelines shrink — turning shocks into famines. Today in

- Europe/Eastern Europe: EU mulls new Russia sanctions; Bulgaria signals it could open an air corridor for a Putin–Trump meeting in Budapest “for peace.” Louvre heist fallout continues in France. - Middle East: Ceasefire mechanics sputter — strikes, accusations, and U.S. shuttle diplomacy; Lebanon’s frontier stays tense; Iraq will keep some U.S. advisers for ISIS threats linked to Syria. - Africa: Ivory Coast tensions rise as Ouattara seeks a fourth term; Kenya mourns deaths during Raila Odinga memorial events; Sudan’s El Fasher siege remains largely absent from headline rotation despite mass hunger. - Indo‑Pacific: China tightens rare earth export controls as G7/EU consider price floors and alternative supply chains; Japan’s political transition advances; Afghanistan–Pakistan ceasefire holds ahead of Istanbul talks. - Americas: Shutdown drags on; protests grow under “No Kings” banners; Argentina secures a $20 billion swap but the peso still falls. Today in

, the questions asked — and the ones missing: - Asked: Can the U.S. shore up the Gaza truce and scale aid? Will Europe cohere on the next Russia sanctions package? - Missing: What concrete redundancy standards should regulators require for cloud and critical internet services? When do secure humanitarian corridors open for El Fasher — and who funds them? How will governments mitigate tariff- and embargo-driven cost spikes without reliable data? Who guarantees access for WFP in Rakhine before famine thresholds are crossed? Cortex concludes: One outage, many aftershocks — in code, in markets, and in lives at the edge of hunger. We track the headlines — and what they omit. This is NewsPlanetAI — The Daily Briefing. We’ll be back on the hour.