The Daily Brief
Essential Reading
Trade Profile: Mexico Focuses on the United States — The government in Mexico City will do whatever it takes to preserve its access to the lucrative market across its northern border.
Greece: Eurozone Deal Erases Risk of Default in July — With a big debt repayment due, creditors agree to send another round of bailout money to Athens.
Geopolitical Calendar: Week of June 19, 2017 — This is an internal Stratfor document listing significant meetings and events for the next week.
Global Perspectives
Saving Football in America, the Canadian Way — Stratfor contributor Matt Bowers discusses the centralized approach to youth athletic development that runs contrary to U.S. free-market ideals.
The Other Side of 'the Biggest Political Story in China' — Stratfor contributor Bao Pu says one of the most interesting truths to emerge from China's anti-corruption campaign has little to do with corruption and everything to do with the state of today's media.
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News You May Have Missed
- Several people were injured in north London early on June 19 after reports that a vehicle rammed into pedestrians, British police said, Reuters reported.
- A U.S. Navy fighter jet shot down a Syrian government Su-22 fighter jet on June 18 that had dropped bombs on Syrian rebel forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria, ABC News reported.
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on June 18 that it launched several missiles into Syria, targeting Islamic State fighters in retaliation for the attacks in Tehran on June 7, CNN reported.
- French President Emmanuel Macron's party is on track for a parliamentary majority in the second round of parliamentary elections, exit polls suggested June 18, BBC reported.
- A luxury resort popular with Western expatriates outside Mali's capital Bamako came under attack by gunmen on June 18, a spokesman at Mali's Security Ministry said, Reuters reported.
- A forest fire in Portugal has claimed at least 62 lives, officials said June 18, BBC reported.
- Investment contracts involving about 500 billion yuan ($73.5 billion) were signed at a major expo for South and Southeast Asia held in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Xinhua reported June 18.
- All missing American sailors of the USS Fitzgerald, a destroyer that collided with a container ship off Japan's coast, have been found dead in flooded areas of the vessel, the U.S. Navy said June 18, France24 reported.
- U.S.-backed Iraqi troops pushed into the last Islamic State stronghold in Mosul on June 18, an Iraqi commander said, France24 reported.
- Three women were killed in the Colombian capital of Bogota on June 17, in what the authorities say was a terrorist attack, BBC reported June 18.