Second US Warplane Lost: A-10 Warthog Crashes Near Hormuz Shortly After F-15 Shootdown

Kering And Hermès Sink As War Batters Earnings; Goldman Warns Luxury Dip-Buying Is "Premature" Goldman's Natasha de la Grense summed it up well this morning: "Money was waiting on the sidelines to buy luxury for a de-escalation play – that feels premature with three misses in three days."  Disappointments from Kering and Hermès, both of which fell short of analyst estimates, reinforced the view that the industry of fine wine, overpriced shirts, shoes, belts, and designer bags, is not yet out of the woods and sent the Goldman Sachs EU Luxury...

US Believed Israel Tried To Assassinate Iran's Top Negotiators As Ghalibaf's Plane Made Emergency Landing The New York Times has issued a new report citing unnamed US officials who believe that Israel came close to assassinating Iran's top negotiators Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. According to the report, a concrete Israeli threat against Ghalibaf and the FM emerged while they were traveling back to Iran from Islamabad following talks with US Vice President JD Vance on April 12. Source: Mehr news Prior to that point, during active fighting, Israel had...

Tuesday’s direct talks between Israel and Lebanon were held with a lot more fanfare than they had consequence, and ended without a meaningful deal being agreed, and with Israel not even really slowing their attacks while the conversations were ongoing, let alone after. Continuing Israeli attacks deep into Lebanese territory, inflicting civilian casualties, are fueling […]