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14.05.26 - 08:42
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Trump, Xi Meet With Iran and Trade in Focus | The Asia Trade 5/14/2026 (Bloomberg)
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"Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Beijing and Tokyo with Haidi Stroud-Watts and Shery Ahn, getting insight and analysis from newsmakers and industry leaders on the biggest stories shaping global markets. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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14.05.26 - 08:00
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UK GDP report to show how Iran war hurt economy in March – business live (The Guardian)
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Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, including the UK's latest GDP reportThe Iran war, and the resulting jump in borrowing costs, is dampening the UK housing market.My colleague Tom Knowles reports:Fears of higher mortgage rates and rising inflation as a result of the Middle East conflict are leading to a subdued and downbeat housing market, according to estate agents.Demand from potential homebuyers across England and Wales has shown a “noticeable softening” recently, according to a monthly survey of estate agents by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Continue reading......
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14.05.26 - 06:24
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Neocon Grandee Robert Kagan Issues Surprise Scathing Critique Of Iran War (ZeroHedge)
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Neocon Grandee Robert Kagan Issues Surprise Scathing Critique Of Iran War
Via Middle East Eye
Robert Kagan, one of the United States' most prominent neoconservative voices and a long-time pro-Israel hawk, has warned that Washington is heading towards "total defeat" in its war on Iran - a setback he says “can neither be repaired nor ignored”.
Writing in The Atlantic, Kagan said the damage inflicted by the conflict cannot be reversed. "There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done," he concluded bleakly.
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Kagan, who co-founded the neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century in 1997, helped shape a political current that pushed the US to project military power globally.
That doctrine culminated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and deeply influenced the George W. Bush administration.
He remained closely tied to that policy ecosystem, including through his wife, V...
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14.05.26 - 04:36
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Israel′s Netanyahu Made Clandestine Trip To UAE During Height Of Iran War (ZeroHedge)
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Israel's Netanyahu Made Clandestine Trip To UAE During Height Of Iran War
Amid the fog of the Iran conflict, some serious geopolitical chess moves were happening in the shadows, with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu having slipped behind what were once enemy lines, into the the quarters of UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, for a clandestine summit which could help realign the region.
"This visit has led to a historic breakthrough in relations between Israel and the UAE," Netanyahu's office confirmed in a Wednesday statement.
It provides top level confirmation of a new CBS report, which revealed that "Netanyahu made a secret visit to the United Arab Emirates recently, where he met with Mohammed bin Zayed, the country's president."
The clandestine meeting occurred in late March, and out of that grew out of the Abraham Accords, given UAE was the first to sign onto normalization with Israel back in 2020. Strangely, later in the day Wednesday, the UAE Foreign Ministry d...
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