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Syria Rejects Desperate Saudi Plea To Deploy Militants To Yemen Provocative rumors have been flying all week that Saudi Arabia has recruited Syrian militants to fight the Houthis in Yemen, at a moment the Iran-aligned rebel groups is said to be rapidly gobbling up more territory, especially along the Red Sea coast. The claim has been especially strong in Lebanese media, after prominent Al-Akhbar reported this week that hundreds of Syrian fighters were recently transferred to southern Saudi Arabia, including fighters who took part in the Jolani/HTS-led fight to topple Bashar al-Assad in...

US To Start New Trade Talks With Mexico Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration said Wednesday it will begin a series of trade negotiations with Mexico this week tied to the first review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), with no talks involving Canada announced so far. The talks are part of the first formal review process for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement since it replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement in 2020. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer speaks during a tour of the Atomic Industries manufacturing facility in Warren,...

Yen Jumps On Report Of BOJ "Rate Check" But It's "Too Little Too Late" Update: (12:40pm ET) The Bank of Japan, not to mentioned Scott "the House" Bessent, have been most displeased with the yen plunge following today's BOJ rate hike, and so they once again do what they do pretty much every other week now: intervene in the market.  As we said earlier (see below) when we predicted that some sort of central bank intervention was inevitable, the yen pared declines on Friday after Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported that the Bank of Japan...