US CENTCOM Says It Attacked and Disabled an Iranian Oil Tanker in the Gulf of Oman

Germany's Inflation Scapegoat: Why Hormuz Is A Convenient Cover Story Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Over the weekend, economist Gerrit Heinemann warned in Bild of a drastic increase in food prices in Germany. The scholar from Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences focused his analysis on the massive rise in fertilizer prices. A significant share of these—estimated at roughly one third of global production—is transported through the Strait of Hormuz. Following the dual blockage of the strait, this sector too has entered a state of global scarcity, forcing farmers worldwide to adjust prices,...

France To Reimburse Patients For Anti-Obesity Drugs Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times, France is set to begin reimbursing severely obese people for the cost of weight-loss drugs, French Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said on May 28. Wegovy at a pharmacy in London on March 8, 2024. Hollie Adams/Reuters She said that Paris would subsidize the use of Danish company Novo Nordisk's Wegovy and American pharma giant Eli Lilly's Mounjaro from mid-June. "I am quite proud, because we are the first country in the European Union to provide reimbursement ... on a...

US forces launched airstrikes in Somalia from February 22 to February 26, US Africa Command has announced, as the Trump administration continues its record-breaking bombing campaign in the country. AFRICOM said in a press release that it conducted airstrikes on those days against the ISIS affiliate in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region, about 43 miles southeast […]