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JUST IN: Iran strikes Bahrain & Kuwait after US hits Iranian targets. Strait of Hormuz closed.

Ceasefire from April is collapsing fast.

Saudi Arabia condemns attacks. China urges immediate halt.

Middle East on edge again.

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@BRICSinfo Looks like more and more European countries are losing patience. First Ireland, now France. Feels like this could be the start of a much bigger diplomatic shift.

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@MKBHD Appreciate the safety tools but yeah…. this also screams 'get your kid an iPhone at 8 so they’re locked into the ecosystem for life.

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@MKBHD Finally a name that actually sounds premium. Golden Gate was the old Big Sur codename too – full circle moment.
After that Liquid Glass polish in Tahoe, this one's gonna feel like a real upgrade.

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@KobeissiLetter So much for the truce. Israel says it was a retaliation strike, Iran is promising a "painful response," and ordinary people in Beirut are the ones caught in the middle.

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damn, India is experiencing drawbacks of a developed country without being a developed country

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India’s fertility rate has fallen below replacement for the first time in the country’s history, declining from a TFR of 2.3 to 1.9 in just a decade.

Delhi’s fertility rate now sits at 1.2, lower than Finland’s.

Follow: @AFpost

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@KobeissiLetter Atlanta at 10.7%, San Jose at 9.3%, and Dallas at 7.8% show where the pressure is building.

Inventory is outpacing demand, buyers have leverage, and sellers unwilling to cut prices are delisting instead. Classic standoff: sellers have 2022 expectations; buyers have 2026 budgets.

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@BRICSinfo The timing says a lot. Xi hasn't visited North Korea since 2019, and now he goes right after Kim unveils a new uranium facility.

Looks like Beijing is reminding both Moscow and Washington that China still holds the most influence on the Korean Peninsula.

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@spectatorindex Not surprising.

Between the ETF outflows, the US-Iran uncertainty, and MicroStrategy selling Bitcoin for the first time in years, risk appetite has taken a hit. Sub-$70k was always a possibility with that much pressure building.

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@KobeissiLetter Not surprising honestly.
11 straight days of spot ETF outflows and nearly $3.5B pulled out was bound to crack support eventually.

Add $740M+ in liquidations and this looks more like a leverage wipeout than a fundamental change in the Bitcoin story.

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@KobeissiLetter Feels like we're officially in the FOMO stage.

Call volume at 70% of the options market shows traders care more about upside than macro risks right now. Even crazier, S&P 500 call option exposure has doubled in just 2 months to a record 4.1x relative to market cap.

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@spectatorindex Hard to argue when the US naval blockade is reportedly costing Iran $500 million a day and CENTCOM is still intercepting ships.

Both sides have been accusing each other of violations since April, bt it’s difficult to expect a ceasefire to hold when the economic pressure remains.

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@BRICSinfo Of course they’re denying it. With the ongoing 60-day ceasefire talks and everything happening behind the scenes right now, admitting the president tried to step down because of an IRGC takeover would completely kill Iran's leverage at the negotiating table.

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@Mrwhosetheboss Honestly, wouldn't be surprised if they sent it themselves to gauge the public backlash, and then pulled the 'it was fake' card when the internet blew up. Classic corporate damage control.

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@KobeissiLetter AI can absolutely make students lazy if it just hands them the answers.

But if it saves teachers 6 hours a week and pushes students to think instead of memorize, that's a win. These days, knowing how to ask the right questions may matter more than memorizing the right answers.

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@BRICSinfo Honestly, this wasn't completely unexpected.

The UN's 2024 Commission of Inquiry had already raised concerns about systemic sexual and gender-based violence in detention settings.
This feels less like a sudden decision and more like the result of years of documented allegations.

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@spectatorindex This makes the April ceasefire look meaningless at this point.

Netanyahu recently said the military should “increase the blows” ahead of the June Washington talks. Feels like both sides are trying to maximize leverage before they actually sit down to negotiate.

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@KobeissiLetter Just another Tuesday in crypto. A $230M wipeout in 60 minutes is wild, but honestly, these leverage flushes happen whenever the market gets overheated.

High leverage longs always get punished once the market takes a breath. Spot holders are completely unfazed by this.

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@BRICSinfo UKMTO (United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations) just confirmed it was an oil tanker about 60 miles off Muscat.

The explosion reportedly hit near the waterline on the port side. Good news is the crew is safe, but bunker fuel is now reportedly leaking into the sea.

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@spectatorindex Bandar Abbas keeps having these ‘mysterious’ incidents. Last big one at the port was linked to missile fuel/chemicals.

This one sounds way too loud for a normal accident. Regime is probably panicking right now.