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Read The 14-Point US-Iran Draft Deal Set For Friday Signing With US and Iranian officials preparing to formally sign a memorandum of understanding in Switzerland on Friday, the conflict is entering the much-needed diplomatic phase to avert a potentially disastrous energy cliff. The MoU would open a 60-day negotiating window aimed at ending the war, restoring maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and hammering out the future of Iran's nuclear program. Bloomberg published the text of the 14-point draft MoU, offering the clearest look yet at the proposed trade:...

Israel Seeks To Disrupt Russian-Iranian Arms Transfer Route In The Caspian Sea Russia and Iran have long had positive bilateral relations, which deepened in the context of the Ukraine war, and now in the midst of Trump's Operation Epic Fury, where Moscow is said to be sharing vital intelligence and targeting information with Tehran. Fresh reporting in The Wall Street Journal suggests that recent large-scale Israeli attacks in the Caspian Sea could mean flirting with WW3 and potential attacks on Russian interests and assets. "An Israeli strike on a naval outpost in...

65,000 Small German Retail Stores Have Disappeared As Economic Downturn Hits Europe's 'Powerhouse' Via Remix News, The number of small retail stores in Germany has declined drastically since 2010. According to a recent analysis by the credit agency Creditreform and the Handelsblatt Research Institute, there were 236,143 small retail stores with annual sales of less than €250,000 in 2010. For 2025, the sales tax statistics show only 170,770 such stores, a drop of 28 percent, reports Junge Freiheit. Across all size categories, the number of stores shrank by only 16 percent during the...