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Kremlin Confirms Rare Talks To Import Gasoline Amid Drone Strike Mayhem Russia has confirmed its government is currently in negotiations with other countries to purchase gasoline while desperately seeking to stabilize its domestic market after months drone mayhem out of Ukraine. "Discussions are actively being held," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a press briefing Tuesday, though without specifying which countries. "If agreements can be reached at acceptable price points, then [imports] will move forward," he added. File image: UBN The development is surprising given that Russia remains the world's second-largest crude oil exporter...

Samsung Strike Threat Sparks Selling Contagion In Memory Stocks President Trump's China trip has concluded, with the multi-day summit producing comments from both sides that pointed to warming bilateral relations. As Trump returns aboard Air Force One on Friday morning, traders are shifting focus to overnight turmoil in South Korea, where labor action risks rattled Samsung shares and other memory stocks, and dragged the country's benchmark KOSPI index lower. Samsung’s strike is set to formally begin on May 21. Because the company’s semiconductor fabs are already highly automated, the impact...

Israel DM Orders IDF To Escalate Demolitions In Southern Lebanon Authored by Jason Ditz via Antiwar.com, A week after ordering the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to prepare for a "long-term stay" in occupied southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Israel Katz has now also ordered them to escalate the rate at which they're destroying what is being framed as "Hezbollah infrastructure" across the south. The issue with this is the same as it's been throughout the war, that Israel's definition of Hezbollah infrastructure generally boils down to civilian infrastructure at large, with a particular...