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, we focus on Hurricane Melissa. As night falls over Jamaica, authorities tally catastrophic damage after Category 5 Melissa made landfall with 185 mph winds and an 892 mb core — among the Atlantic’s most intense on record. Our historical scan shows forecasters warned for days of rapid intensification and a slow crawl over Jamaica and Hispaniola — a flood multiplier. At least seven are dead across Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, with 15–40 inches of rain forecast in swaths already facing landslide risks. Haiti enters this disaster with 5.7 million acutely hungry and aid pipelines already cut back. Today in

, we track the hour’s developments: - Middle East: Israel launched strikes in Gaza after accusing Hamas of breaching a fragile truce and mishandling hostage remains; the ICRC condemned the staging of remains. UN and France criticized recent incidents endangering UNIFIL. Our historical review confirms two weeks of truce strain and repeated returns of bodies under dispute. - Americas: The U.S. shutdown enters Day 28; multiple outlets now warn SNAP funding for 42 million people runs out Nov 1 without action. Food banks are bracing. Venezuela escalated tensions, declaring Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister persona non grata, as U.S. military activity in the Caribbean draws scrutiny. - Africa: Reports from El Fasher indicate mass killings after RSF seized Sudan’s last army stronghold in Darfur. UN human rights officials cite summary executions; new Yale imagery supports atrocity evidence. UK-origin equipment reportedly surfaced among RSF materiel. - Indo-Pacific: Pakistan–Afghanistan talks in Istanbul collapsed without a monitoring mechanism after deadly border clashes. North Korea fired cruise missiles hours before President Trump’s visit to South Korea. India’s east coast is clearing damage after Cyclone Montha’s landfall. - Europe: France’s political crisis deepens as budget strains mount; the EU debates public-health and defense priorities amid tight finances. - Business/Tech: SK Hynix posted record profit on AI chip demand; Apple and Microsoft hover around $4T valuations. YouTube will age-restrict more violent game content; Cameo sued OpenAI over “cameo” branding. We checked missing context: Funding collapses across WFP operations are cutting assistance in Somalia and Ethiopia and threaten Haiti and Myanmar, where 16.7 million are food insecure. These crises are largely absent from hourly coverage but are escalating. Today in

, the thread is convergence: Climate shocks, from Melissa to Montha, strike regions where humanitarian pipelines have shrunk. Our historical review shows a 40% cut in WFP capacity this year, just as storms, conflict and inflation spike food prices. Security spending rises — NATO exercises, missile upgrades — while social safety nets falter, exemplified by the looming U.S. SNAP cutoff. The result is a cascade: disrupted trade and sanctions push up costs; conflicts displace families; storms wash away infrastructure; and shrinking aid budgets turn emergencies into famines. Today in

- Europe: NATO’s DEFENDER 25 moves 25,000 troops across 18 nations to test rapid deployment. France faces a budget squeeze and political volatility; Hungary signals defiance on Russia energy sanctions. - Middle East: Gaza’s truce remains brittle amid strikes and the hostage remains controversy; UNIFIL safety incidents risk spillover with Lebanon. - Africa: Darfur enters a new and more dangerous phase under RSF control; Sudanese civilians in El Fasher face mass killing and starvation. Underreported: Angola’s worst drought in 40 years, CAR’s hunger and Burkina Faso’s mass displacement. - Indo-Pacific: Islamabad and Kabul remain at impasse, raising risk of cross-border strikes. North Korea’s cruise tests underscore a more complex pre-summit deterrence environment. - Americas: Hurricane Melissa’s devastation intersects with Haiti’s pre-existing hunger emergency. In the U.S., the shutdown threatens 42 million with lost food aid on Nov 1; Senate Republicans broke with Trump on Brazil tariffs, signaling shifting trade politics. Today in

— questions asked and missing: - Asked: Can the Gaza ceasefire be rescued, and who verifies violations and remains? Will U.S.–China talks on Oct 30 temper trade escalation and rare earth controls? - Missing: Who funds emergency food and shelter for Jamaica and Haiti this week as WFP budgets shrink? What accountability follows evidence of foreign-sourced kit in Sudan atrocities? If SNAP shuts off on Nov 1, what is the contingency to prevent a food-bank surge? How will platforms counter disaster misinformation during Melissa’s aftermath? Cortex concludes: Tonight’s map shows a storm’s path crossing a funding cliff. We’ll keep tracking where the wind, the war, and the wallet intersect — and who’s left exposed. This is NewsPlanetAI — The Daily Briefing. We’ll be back on the hour.