BREAKING VIDEO: Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person ever to win a regular marathon in under two hours, setting a new world record at the London Marathon in 1:59:30!
Kenyans invented running™
Italians see property investments as safe and markets as unreliable. Data shows that's wrong — and it's costing the country billions, @Alemrome reports @business -- many would relate. Link for gift article: https://t.co/YIlJ8J6QHC
BIG TAKE | The targeted attacks and killing of Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, shatters a half-century of US foreign policy @PeterMartin_PCM@EMPosts@business https://t.co/EKSuX6s3jZ
IRAN | The UAE and Qatar are privately lobbying allies to help them persuade Trump to reach for an off-ramp that would keep US military operations against Iran short, sources say. @alexwickham exclusively reports https://t.co/vqyTC6ug1W
REVIEW | After 40 years in power, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni has secured a new term in office. A new book by Mahmood Mamdani argues he’s damaging the country just like 1970s dictator Idi Amin. Here's my dispatch: https://t.co/ktoSd39oJa @adamblenford@bpolitics
FIRST | Kenya converted its railway loans from dollars to Chinese yuan, saving $215 million a year and potentially setting a precedent, @herbling reports https://t.co/f5iPe0rrP0 @BloombergAfrica
Bloomberg News reporting sheds new light into the relationship between disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and prominent UK politician Peter Mandelson https://t.co/KY53NrE726 via @business
WEEKEND READ | ''No, it’s not over,'' Tidjane Thiam, the former Credit Suisse CEO now barred from running for president in Ivory Coast, talks about blocked ambitions, prejudice and why he won’t give up. https://t.co/dhaxzCd2qf via @business@MishalHusain
Jane Street’s Rob Granieri says he was duped into funding AK-47s for a South Sudan coup plot, @avabmorrison@sridinats report @business https://t.co/Gav1iCKuxQ
Trump’s decision to bomb Iran in a first US direct military action on Tehran in decades, has pushed the Middle East into uncharted territory and raised geopolitical risk in a world already facing uncertainty over his trade war @RamseyAlRikabi@business https://t.co/hTfNnlCOEP
ISRAEL STRIKES IRAN | Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, in a major escalation in the standoff over Tehran’s atomic program that risks sparking a new war in the Middle East https://t.co/SwHZZd2ld9
Taiwan's lifers hold >90% of their >$700b foreign assets in USD. When the dollar is strong, the model works well. But it puts them at risk of a longterm USD decline as the appeal of US exceptionalism wanes @ChienHuaWan1@hwang61@betty_hou_1108@business https://t.co/ZMHNSBvZjo
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a Kenyan novelist best known for his books critiquing the hardships of post-colonial Africa, has died. He was 87. https://t.co/2mp2YgFICi