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US-Israeli strikes in Iran pounded residential areas across Iran on Saturday and Sunday as the bombing campaign continues to heave devestating impact on Iranian civilians. Citing Iranian media, AFP reported that overnight strikes from Friday into Saturday on residential areas in the western city of Borujerd killed at least seven people and wounded 36. Attacks […]

Private Credit Firesale Begins: World's Largest Asset Manager Gates Investors In $26 Billion Fund Three weeks ago, when the largest US Private Credit-focused asset manager Blue Owl, was faced with a flood of redemptions due to its outsized exposure to software loans (which are very rapidly being repriced to zero thanks to the disruption from AI), the firm opted against reinstating quarterly redemptions on a retail fund and decided to return investor capital through assets sales instead (effectively also freezing the money in it and gating investors ) announcing a massive...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found that Israel killed the majority of murdered journalists in 2025.  “Israel was responsible for two-thirds of all journalist and media worker killings in 2025, driving the total number killed worldwide last year to a record 129,” a CPJ report released on Wednesday explained. It is the “highest ever […]