Lebanon Seeks Peace Talks, But Israel FM Says Troops Have to Remain

Everybody Involved In The "AI Extinction" Conversation Is Talking Their Own Book By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank Coalition of the Exceedingly Reluctant US 10-year bond yields topped 5% on Monday, and again on Tuesday, as crude oil prices continued to move higher and overnight index swaps implied a higher chance of a Fed rate hike on Wednesday. The OIS market now has 24.9bps priced in for Wednesday’s FOMC meeting – suggesting that traders view a Fed hike this week as a near certainty. US and European equities were broadly lower...

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”...

Before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in March, they were still attacking Lebanon on an almost daily basis at any rate. Starting in late January, some of those attacks involved the spraying of concentrated herbicide on Lebanese farmland and other agricultural lands. Those operations continued to be reported intermittently after, but were mostly overshadowed by […]