Heavy Israeli Strikes Pound Gaza, Killing Al Jazeera Journalist, Women, and Children

Since 2022 Just A Handful Of Countries Have Driven All Sovereign Gold Demand The 2008 financial crisis marked a structural shift in central bank behaviour Back in January, UBS showed that most of last year’s increase in gold prices was driven by US policy shocks boosting private demand. The bulk of the gold price increase last year can be attributed to US policy shifts: UBS Running in parallel, however, has been a more gradual but persistent rise in official sector gold holdings. A common narrative, one which was started largely on this website,...

US Africa Command said on Monday that its forces launched an airstrike in Somalia on March 27 as the Trump administration continues the bombing campaign in the east African country amid the US-Israeli war against Iran. AFRICOM said the strike targeted al-Shabaab and was launched about 80 miles northwest of the southern city of Kismayo. […]

Swiss Government Discusses Revoking Protections, Benefits For Military-Aged Ukrainians During the opening years of the Russia-Ukraine war European states were quite welcoming to Ukrainian refugees and anyone fleeing the carnage and chaos, but now in the conflict's fifth year the general sentiment among EU populations and governments is changing. Switzerland, once hailed as Europe's most neutral state - and among the most 'welcoming' countries for asylum seekers - is mulling a policy change which would exclude Ukrainian men of military age from protections granted to refugees. The Swiss Federal Council announced in a...