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  • Geopolitical tensions escalate in the Middle East as US and Iran engage in strikes and negotiations, impacting global oil prices and peace deal prospects, while Israel intensifies operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
  • The global economy faces volatility with significant market reactions to corporate governance issues at BP and Ferrari's new EV launch, alongside Europe's escalating fiscal crisis and potential wealth taxes.
  • Public health concerns are heightened with the CDC expanding Ebola screening and the WHO warning of an outbreak outpacing response efforts in the DRC, alongside a global surge in mental health disorders.
  • Technological advancements, particularly in AI, are a major focus, with SpaceX seeking compute customers and Pope Leo addressing the ethical implications of AI, while China makes moves in the DRAM and NAND memory chip market.
  • Significant political developments include ongoing debates on national sovereignty, potential EU enlargement with shifts in veto power, and domestic political battles in the US and UK concerning justice, elections, and social policies.

ZeroHedge

  • Futures Rise, US Stocks Set For New Record As Hopes For Iran Peace Deal Persist Despite Bombing 31 minutes ago by Tyler Durden

    Futures Rise, US Stocks Set For New Record As Hopes For Iran Peace Deal Persist Despite Bombing US futures are higher again, led by tech and small caps. As of 7:30am, S&P 500 futures rose 0.7%, signaling US stocks are set for another record high when the market reopens after Memorial Day weekend. Nasdaq 100 contracts, supercharged by the artificial intelligence trade, gained more than 1% as Magnificent Seven big tech shares rallied in premarket trading. In premarket trading, all Mag 7 are higher led by NVDA (+0.8%), TSLA (+0.8%) and GOOG/L (+0.7%). 10-year Treasury yields fell six basis points

  • BP Shares Plunge After Chairman Abruptly Removed Over Serious Governance Concerns 37 minutes ago by Tyler Durden

    BP Shares Plunge After Chairman Abruptly Removed Over Serious Governance Concerns Shares of BP PLC, formerly British Petroleum, dropped in London trading after the oil and gas major said its board had removed Chairman Albert Manifold with immediate effect over "serious concerns" tied to "important governance standards, oversight, and conduct." The abrupt ouster adds yet another layer of instability to BP's turnaround effort; more importantly, it raises serious questions about exactly what prompted the board to give Manifold the boot. "The board has been surprised and disappointed to learn of governance oversight and conduct issues it deems unacceptable and has

  • Over 70 Hezbollah Sites Struck As Netanyahu Orders IDF To 'Intensify Blows' On Lebanon an hour ago by Tyler Durden

    Over 70 Hezbollah Sites Struck As Netanyahu Orders IDF To 'Intensify Blows' On Lebanon Israel has drastically ramped up its military campaign across Lebanon, hitting many dozens of 'Hezbollah sites' - and seriously escalating the long-running conflict, despite there officially being a US-mediated ceasefire in place. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed on Monday that instructed the military to "press the pedal even harder" against Hezbollah, reportedly upon a greenlight being given by Washington, following increased drone attacks from the Shia paramilitary group backed by Iran on northern Israel. via AFP "We are at war with Hezbollah. Just in recent

  • CDC Adds Another Airport For Screening Of Travelers Who Might Have Ebola an hour ago by Tyler Durden

    CDC Adds Another Airport For Screening Of Travelers Who Might Have Ebola Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Two more airports have been added as options for people traveling from countries affected by the Ebola outbreak in Africa. People traveling from Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan can go to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, starting May 26, Customs and Border Protection said on May 22. The CDC said in a statement that Atlanta airport “has established operational procedures in place” for enhanced screening, which is one layer

  • Ferrari Shares Plunge After Analyst Slams New EV As "Mix Between Honda And Tesla" 2 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    Ferrari Shares Plunge After Analyst Slams New EV As "Mix Between Honda And Tesla" Ferrari shares fell in Milan on Tuesday after the Italian supercar maker unveiled its first EV sports car, disappointing Wall Street analysts who criticized the design, with one calling it a "mix between a Honda Accord EV and Tesla." The four-door, five-seat Ferrari Luce , priced at a staggering 550,000 euros, marks the supercar maker's first fully electric vehicle and serves as its biggest test yet: can Ferrari's nearly eight-decade brand equity survive the transition away from combustion? Ferrari has just officially unveiled its first ever


The Guardian

  • Spread of Ebola in DRC ‘outpacing’ response efforts, warns WHO 20 hours ago by Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi
    Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, World news, Ebola, World Health Organization

    Director general of World Health Organization urges neighbouring countries to take immediate action The World Health Organization has warned that the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease. “We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,” said the WHO’s director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as he urged neighbouring countries to take immediate action. Continue reading...

  • ‘She does not back down’: the couple seeking to legalise same-sex marriage in Botswana a day ago by Rachel Savage in Gaborone
    Botswana, LGBTQ+ rights, Africa, World news

    Bonolo Selelo and Tsholofelo Kumile are going to court for right to wed but face fierce opposition from church groups Bonolo Selelo was at Botswana’s national museum for a Gaborone Pride event when she spotted Tsholofelo Kumile and was struck by her good looks. The two initiated a conversation and when Kumile expressed anxiety about what a tarot reading at the event might hold, Selelo thought nothing of offering her a hug. The reading turned out positive but Kumile claimed her hug anyway and they talked for hours. That was 1 October 2023. Two months later, they moved in together.

  • Suspected Ebola cases in DRC pass 900 as health workers face attacks and shortages 2 days ago by Associated Press
    Ebola, World news, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, Global health

    WHO says outbreak poses ‘very high’ risk for country, but risk of disease spreading globally remains low Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo say that suspected Ebola cases have now passed 900 in the ongoing outbreak in the east of the country. The DRC’s ministry of communication said in a post on X on Sunday that there were 904 suspected cases and 119 suspected deaths. Continue reading...

  • Hunger increasingly used as weapon of war as ‘food-related violence’ surges, analysis shows 2 days ago by Mark Townsend
    Global development, Hunger, Conflict and arms, Palestine, Yemen, United Nations, World news, Middle East and north Africa, Sudan, Africa

    More than 20,000 attacks on markets, farmland and food distribution systems have been recorded since 2018 Hunger is being increasingly exploited as a weapon of war with more than 20,000 documented incidents of “food-related violence” in the past eight years, new analysis reveals. Attacks include 1,261 strikes on markets used by families for daily groceries and 863 incidents in which food distribution systems were targeted and workers killed. Continue reading...

  • White House pauses removal of detainees to DRC as Ebola outbreak widens 3 days ago by Melody Schreiber
    Ebola, Trump administration, US immigration, ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Infectious diseases, US politics, US news, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Uganda, World news, Africa

    But Trump administration will not return detainees deported to third countries in disease-stricken region The Trump administration will temporarily pause the removal of refugees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a spiraling Ebola outbreak, according to reporting by Politico, but experts say the move won’t help prevent the spread of the disease. At least one woman is now in limbo after officials moved her to Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC, and now say they won’t bring her back because of the Ebola travel ban – despite a judge’s order for her return. Continue reading...


South China Morning Post

  • Trump makes everything worse but he didn’t start it 27 minutes ago by Alex Lo

    While cleaning my basement, I found an old copy of Foreign Affairs dated September/October 2014. If you didn’t look at the publication date but only its table of contents, you would have thought it was a recent edition. Titled “See America: Land of Decay & Dysfunction”, the edition’s front cover is a painting of a crumbling Capitol Building that houses the United States Congress. Keep in mind we are talking about the second year of the second term of Barack Obama, whose presidency is now fondly...

  • Mango founder’s son steps down as vice-chair amid probe into father’s death an hour ago by Reuters

    Jonathan Andic, son of Mango founder Isak Andic, said on Tuesday he was stepping down temporarily as the fashion group’s vice chair after being named a suspect in an investigation into his father’s death, while strongly asserting his innocence. “The attention and focus that my defence in the judicial process currently requires do not allow me to maintain the high level of commitment demanded by my role at the company,” Andic said in an open letter to staff. “A public narrative has been...

  • ‘Extremely violent’: 2 teenagers among 4 dead in Belgium after train hits school bus 2 hours ago by Reuters

    Four people, including two teenagers, were killed in Belgium on Tuesday when a train crashed into a school bus on a level crossing near the town of Buggenhout, RTL TV reported, citing Transport Minister Jean-Luc Crucke. The victims also included the bus driver and an adult accompanying the pupils, ⁠RTL quoted Crucke as saying. Two other people were ‌also severely injured. The accident occurred early on Tuesday at a ‌level crossing near Buggenhout station, about 23km (14 miles) from Brussels....

  • In Beijing, the US and China tiptoed around tech and critical minerals 4 hours ago by Winston Mok

    The Xi-Trump summit in Beijing unfolded much more cordially than the tense truce in Busan. In the six months since the leaders met in the South Korean city, America’s bargaining position has weakened considerably from developments both domestic and international. From a reluctant respite in tensions, US-China relations have evolved to what may be the beginning of a reconciliation. The two great powers interact at three levels. At the bottom is trade and investment; we can expect the terms of the...

  • Russia tells US to pull its diplomats and citizens from Ukraine capital 6 hours ago by Bloomberg

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called US State Secretary Marco Rubio to advise him to evacuate US citizens and diplomats from Kyiv, as the Kremlin plans to continue heavy strikes on the Ukrainian capital, according to a statement published by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday. Lavrov called his US counterpart at the request of President Vladimir Putin to tell him that Russia was launching systematic and consistent strikes against facilities in Kyiv as well as against the relevant...


New York Times

  • Global Oil Price Rises After U.S. Strikes in Iran Cloud Peace Deal 2 hours ago by The New York Times
    US and Israeli Attack on Iran (2026), Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Stocks and Bonds, Standard & Poor's 500-Stock Index, Iran

    Optimism for a resolution to the conflict and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz was checked after the United States said it had carried out strikes on missile launch sites in Iran.

  • Evolving Warfare Connects the Conflicts in Ukraine and Iran 40 minutes ago by Lara Jakes
    Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022), US and Israeli Attack on Iran (2026), International Relations, Embargoes and Sanctions, War and Armed Conflicts, United States Politics and Government, United States International Relations, Iran-Israel War (2025- ), Drones (Pilotless Planes), Putin, Vladimir V, Trump, Donald J, Europe, Iran, Israel, Kyiv (Ukraine), Persian Gulf, Ukraine

    Aspects such as drone technology and diplomacy show how the wars intersect on the battlefield and in global alignments, providing a model for future conflicts.

  • Netanyahu Says Israel Plans to Intensify Attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon 15 hours ago by Ephrat Livni
    US and Israeli Attack on Iran (2026), Netanyahu, Benjamin, Hezbollah, Qassem, Naim, Lebanon, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Iran, Trump, Donald J

    After the prime minister made the announcement, the Israeli military said it had struck more than 70 Hezbollah sites in the past day.

  • White House Shakes Up Green Card Policy, and the Pope Takes On A.I. 3 hours ago by Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas and Ian Stewart
    United States Politics and Government, Artificial Intelligence, Immigration and Emigration, Leo XIV, internal-open-access-audio

    Plus, will anyone want an electric Ferrari?

  • As Trump Politicizes Justice Dept., Prosecutors Struggle With Grand Juries 39 minutes ago by Alan Feuer
    United States Politics and Government, Ethics and Official Misconduct, Courts and the Judiciary, Federal Courts (US), United States Attorneys, Law and Legislation, Legal Profession, Jury System, Justice Department, Halligan, Lindsey, Perry, April Michelle, Trump, Donald J, Chicago (Ill), Wyoming

    Judges and grand juries have increasingly lost faith in the Justice Department as the president uses it to reward his friends and go after his opponents.


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