Brent Tops $100 As Gulf Conflict Escalates; UBS Warns US-Iran "Off-Ramp Remains Elusive"

Watch Live: Rubio, Bessent Convene 65 Nations For Global Crackdown On "Far-Left Political Terrorism" Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host delegations from 65 countries in Washington on Thursday morning to coordinate a specialized international response to combat what the Trump administration describes as a "resurgence" of far-left political terrorism. Watch Live here (due to start at 0910ET): CNN cited a senior State Department official who said the delegations will come from "across the Western Hemisphere, Asia, Europe, and beyond." The meeting will focus on countering the spread of far-left political violence...

CIA Official Confirms Agency Flip-Flopped Over COVID-19 Origins Over Five-Day Period Over the span of five days in 2021, the CIA abruptly changed its opinion on the origins of COVID-19 from a laboratory to neutral, a newly released document confirms.  The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at the entrance of the agency headquarters in McLean, Va., on Sept. 24, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Originally, CIA analysts concluded that COVID-19 likely came from a high-level laboratory in Wuhan, China located near where the first cases were detected in late 2019, senior CIA officer...

Israeli Troops Deployed To Somaliland In Covert Mission Via The Cradle Israel secretly deployed a small contingent of forces to Somaliland earlier this year following its recognition of the breakaway territory, a senior Somali government official revealed to Middle East Eye (MEE) on Monday. "According to our intelligence reports, the Israeli military selected Israeli soldiers of African heritage, especially Ethiopians, so as not to draw attention to themselves and to blend in more easily with the local community," the senior Somali official stated. via Reuters The Somali official said that Israel had deployed a group of 50...