Death Toll in US-Backed Saudi Strike on Yemen Prison Rises to 23

Germany's Pension Time Bomb: $2+ Billion In CRE Losses Expose Cracks In The Fiat Era Submitted by Thomas Kolbe, A shock for the insured members of the Versorgungswerk Zahnärzte Berlin-Brandenburg (VZB). According to a report this week by Bloomberg, losses at the private pension fund total €1.1 billion. Roughly 50 percent of its invested capital has effectively been wiped out—channeled into private loans to non-listed companies, including rPlanet Earth in California, a shrimp farm in northern Germany, and, repeatedly featured on the investment menus of German pension funds, U.S. commercial real...

France, Italy Are Latest NATO Allies To Break Ranks, Block US Military Flights For Iran War First Spain, now France and Italy... France has blocked the United States from using its airspace to transport American weapons to be used in the war against Iran, a Western diplomat and two additional sources told Reuters Tuesday. "The sources said the refusal, which happened at the weekend, was the first time France had done this since the start of the conflict in Iran," Reuters has underscored. USAF image On the same day reports are emerging that Italy has...

New Footage Reveals Ford Carrier Damage Far More Severe Than Pentagon Acknowledged Newly surfaced footage obtained by CNN indicates that a severe fire aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford - the world's largest aircraft carrier - inflicted far more extensive damage than the Trump administration initially admitted to the public. Early in the conflict it was forced to depart Mideast regional waters and retreat West in the Mediterranean, before undergoing extensive repairs at port in Croatia. Pundits were skeptical of official explanations, which suggested an accidental fire was sparked in the...