Iraq's Ruling Pro-Iran Bloc Races To Choose PM, While US Rejects Main Candidates

Trump Admin Floats Unfreezing Russian Assets In Big Move To Restart Talks President Trump appears to be busy rolling back years of entrenched Ukraine policy. Starting last week he announced the controversial diesel deal with Putin, and this week Ukraine's Zelensky is complaining that intelligence-sharing has been throttled, and possibly even cut off. The possibility or even likelihood of this heading to another TACO moment aside, what's next? New reporting in the Financial Times gives an idea. The United States has floated a proposal that European countries unfreeze some of Russia's sovereign...

Poland Suspects "Hybrid Warfare" After Starlink Station Fire As War Spillover Fears Mount A fire erupted at a ground-based Starlink communications station in central Poland, raising new concerns about sabotage as spillover risks from the Russia-Ukraine war mount. Reuters reports that the fire broke out overnight Wednesday at the ground station's power equipment and generator. The report cited Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski. "The fire engulfed the power station and the generator; it is clear that this act of sabotage was deliberately designed to disable the station, effectively cutting off the internet...

"Huge Shock": China Launches Crackdown On Cross-Border Stock Selling To Block Capital Outflows China launched an unprecedented campaign against illegal cross-border trading to stem capital outflows, threatening severe penalties against brokers and ordering non-compliant accounts to be liquidated within two years, sparking a brutal selloff in three popular brokerages. As Bloomberg reports, the pushback came after the onshore markets closed Friday when eight regulators issued a joint statement vowing a campaign against these trades, sending US-listed Chinese stocks tumbling. The securities regulator said it planned to penalize brokerages Futu Holdings, Tiger Brokers...