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Today in The World Watches, we focus on Hurricane Melissa. As darkness settles over Jamaica, Category 5 Melissa — 185 mph winds, 892 millibars — carved across the south coast, killing at least seven and flattening infrastructure. The storm’s slow crawl stacked 15–40 inches of rain, landslides, and a 13-foot surge; Haiti and eastern Cuba brace next. Why it leads: a historic landfall meets highly exposed coastlines and strained disaster logistics. What’s driving prominence: record intensity, prolonged rainfall, and cascading regional impacts just as humanitarian funding thins.

Today in Global Gist, we map the hour. - Americas: The U.S. shutdown hits Day 28; SNAP funds for 42 million end Nov 1 absent action. Police operations in Rio left at least 64 dead. Argentina’s Milei consolidates gains; Bolivia shifts right, eyeing lithium. Stablecoin use rises in Venezuela amid hyperinflation. - Indo-Pacific: North Korea fired cruise missiles into the Yellow Sea as Trump arrived in South Korea for APEC; India’s Cyclone Montha drenched Andhra–Odisha. U.S.–South Korea to formalize AI/quantum cooperation. - Europe: France’s government crisis deepens; Hungary vows to skirt new Russia oil sanctions; NATO’s DEFENDER 25 drills 25,000 troops. EU weighs tougher EV and fertilizer decarbonization paths amid industry pushback. - Middle East: Israel struck Gaza after alleging truce violations; Hamas denies. Reports say 26–33 Palestinians killed as ceasefire strains. - Tech/Markets: Apple joins Microsoft and Nvidia in the $4T club; OpenAI restructuring boosts Microsoft valuation; GitHub ships new VS Code planning tools. Underreported, flagged by our historical review: - Sudan: El Fasher fell to RSF; UN, AU, and Yale imaging cite summary executions and mass graves. Civilians trapped, starvation risk rising. - Myanmar: 16.7 million food-insecure; WFP says Rakhine famine risk escalating with operations underfunded. - Haiti: Appeal remains among the world’s least funded as 5.7 million face acute hunger — now with a major hurricane’s rain bands incoming. - WFP globally: Budget down 36% year over year; pipeline breaks are widening from Somalia to Ethiopia.

Today in Insight Analytica, the pattern is compounding shocks. Climate extremes — a Cat-5 over Jamaica and a cyclonic deluge in India — collide with shrinking safety nets: WFP cuts, U.S. SNAP lapses, and insurance retreat. Conflicts — from Gaza to Sudan to Ukraine — keep fuel and food markets unstable, raising the cost and complexity of disaster logistics. Meanwhile, a tentative U.S.–China trade framework may slow tariff escalation and rare-earth controls, but supply-chain risk pricing remains elevated, feeding inflation that further erodes humanitarian reach.

Today in Regional Rundown, we balance signal and silence. - Caribbean: Jamaica reels; Haiti’s hunger crisis faces a funding cliff as Melissa’s rains approach. - North America: Shutdown threatens November nutrition for tens of millions; Senate GOP joined Democrats to curb Brazil tariffs, a rare rebuke. - Europe: Budget stress in France; Hungary’s sanctions defiance spotlights EU cohesion risks; NATO drills test rapid deployment. - Eastern Europe: Ukraine reports hundreds of daily Russian attacks; long-range Ukrainian strikes continue to thin Russian refining capacity, driving regional fuel tightness. - Middle East: Gaza ceasefire remains fragile; aid flows fluctuating well below need. - Africa: RSF control of all Darfur heightens atrocity and famine risks; elections in Cameroon and Ivory Coast underscore democratic backsliding. - Indo-Pacific: DPRK missile messaging brackets APEC; India–China keep border channels open; Japan accelerates defense to 2% GDP.

Today in Social Soundbar, the questions. - Being asked: Will Trump–Xi secure even a short pause on tariffs and rare-earth controls? Can Jamaica restore power, water, and hospitals before the next rain band? - Not asked enough: Who fills WFP’s immediate gaps as Sudan, Myanmar, and Haiti edge toward famine? What’s the plan if 42 million Americans lose SNAP on Nov 1? How will shipping decarbonization proceed amid conflict-driven route changes that add years — even decades — to industry targets? Cortex concludes: Tonight’s through-line is exposure — coastlines, food systems, and civilians in conflict — as buffers fray. We’ll track both the loud hurricane and the quiet hungers it will magnify. This is NewsPlanetAI — The Daily Briefing. Back on the hour.