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  1. 01

    UKRAINE

    Schrödinger’s link.

    President Zelensky has flagged Ukraine’s critical Starlink connectivity still seems throttled, amid President Trump’s latest claim that it’s now up-and-running after he personally got Elon Musk to restore the service. (BBC)

  2. 02

    NETHERLANDS

    Wrong number?

    Trump envoy/son-in-law Jared Kushner is angrily denying — and threatening legal action — over bombshell claims in Vanity Fair that Dutch intelligence (tracking Russian spooks) found evidence via Kushner’s phone that he was routing hundreds of millions in mysterious payments during Trump 1.0. (Vanity Fair).

  3. 03

    BRAZIL

    Neck and neck.

    Credible Datafolha polling suggests the left’s President Lula and the right’s Senator Bolsonaro are now tied running into Sunday’s high-stakes election runoff. (Bloomberg $)

  4. 04

    GERMANY

    Spy central.

    Chancellor Merz has confirmed Germany is the target of “intense” espionage after authorities arrested a Ukrainian national on suspicion of passing military secrets (including on tank production and NATO’s eastern flank) to Russia. (DW)Comment: As a core EU pillar and top Ukraine backer now undergoing a historic rearmament in response to Putin’s aggression, Germany is a natural bullseye for Russian intelligence. As Berlin expands its defence industrial base, it also expands the surface area for Russian approaches, but it all comes amid a series of local spy scandals, including claims that Germany’s former spymaster had been selling secrets to a foreign power.

  5. 05

    NORTH KOREA

    Easy does it.

    Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, is back with her trademark warmth, warning that her family’s hermit kingdom will re-activate anti-South Korea loudspeakers dotted along their shared border in response to what she alleges are the South’s own resumed border broadcasts. (CNN)

  6. 06

    MALAYSIA

    Parting Waze.

    Kuala Lumpur has banned civil servants from using the Waze navigation app, citing national security concerns and its roots in Israel (which Malaysia doesn’t recognise). Waze denies it collects sensitive information, and insists it complies “with global legal data protection standards”. (ABC)

  7. 07

    NIGERIA

    Ebola reaches West Africa.

    Nigerian authorities are urging calm amid word of the country’s first confirmed Ebola case. The broader Ebola outbreak (concentrated in the Congo) is now history’s second-biggest, with a fatality rate near 50%. (RFI)

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