Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

New York City has picked its Democratic candidate for mayor from a crowded field.

The election was a high-profile trial run for ranked choice voting, which went off almost without a hitch.

It was also a sign for Democrats elsewhere not to veer too far left.

And life for gay people is notoriously difficult in the Middle East, where homosexuality

is often criminalized. But a close look at past scholarship and literature suggests the region

once had far more fluid attitudes towards sexuality.

First up, though, the President of Haiti was assassinated in his home early Wednesday morning. The country's interim Prime Minister has declared a state of emergency in the country.

He said an armed commando group shot and killed Jovenel Mouise and injured his wife.

Last night, police said they had killed four of the people responsible

and arrested two others.

Foreign leaders have condemned the assassination.

Today, the UN Security Council will hold a closed-door meeting about it.

Mr. Moise had plenty of enemies and detractors.

For months, protesters had been calling for his resignation.

They argued his term was up, that he cozied up to gangs, that he had his hands in the country's till.

In recent weeks, gangs have had the upper hand.

Protests have turned deadly, and thousands have fled from Haiti cities.

Now that Mr. Moise is gone, it's likely the violence will only escalate.

So yesterday the president was assassinated, there was no coup. The interim prime minister,

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