Yemen's Houthis attack Saudi refinery after kingdom signs defence pact

Aug 9 (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have attacked Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery, they said on Sunday, two days after the kingdom signed a defence pact with Turkey and Pakistan in response

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Pakistan’s defense minister says Israel ‘illegitimate,’ calls for ‘united military front’ among Muslim nations amid pact with Saudis, Turkey

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Hormuz will stay closed until US changes its behavior: Iran’s security chief

The secretary of Iran

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Threat, ultimatum, retreat: Why Trump’s bellicose rhetoric against Iran always ends in backtracking

Despite repeatedly issuing maximalist military ultimatums against Iran, US President Donald Trump has always retreated at the last moment when met with Iranian resilience, a pattern that has undermine...

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Kshama Sawant on Challenging One of the Worst House Dems, Adam Smith

YouTube video by Glenn Greenwald

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Claims of Iran agreeing to reopen Hormuz Strait are false: Report

Media reports claiming that the Islamic Republic of Iran has agreed to a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz are false.

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USGC 3:1 margins hit $62 a barrel. Here's why

YouTube video by Sparta

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Podcast: Brent whipsaws and USGC 3:2:1 margins explode. The diesel crisis behind it

Brent swung $15 in three days as Houthi attacks hit Saudi infrastructure. Abhishek Kumar and Jorge Molinero on the diesel squeeze and Suez reroute costs.

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Sparta (@SpartaCommo) on X

US Gulf Coast refining margins just hit an all time high near $62 a barrel. SPR stocks are the lowest since 1984. Commercial crude is the lowest since 2018. Refiners are running flat out and still ca...

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Wrenching the Ranchers | Christopher Ketcham

In the American West, grazing by cattle has come at a devastating ecological cost. One man wants to upend it—at whatever cost.

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How the Legal Opium Market Shaped Global Trade—and Led to an Opioid Crisis | The Brink | Boston University

BU historian Benjamin R. Siegel’s "Markets of Pain" charts opium from a commodity in colonial India to fuel for a drug crisis in modern-day America

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Deep Politics and the Death of JFK

Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective--that JFK's death was not just an isolated ...

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The Wars of the Epstein Class | Dr. Aaron Good

YouTube video by Neutrality Studies

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US violations of MoU prove American presidents signature worthless: Leader

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei says the United States’ repeated violations of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) have once again proven the “worthlessness and...

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IRGC says reprisal strikes hit US aircraft in Jordan, Qatar as Operation Nasr expands across region

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said it targeted US fighter jets and aerial refueling aircraft stationed in Jordan and Qatar in new waves of retaliatory attacks.

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Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data: The Census Tree Project

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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SpaceX and other mega AI deals are lifting big bank profits. CEOs say more are coming.

Wall Street's biggest banks are taking a victory lap this week after a global AI boom fueled one of their strongest quarters in recent years.

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JPMorgan notches record quarter as CEO Jamie Dimon calls the banking environment 'close to as good as it gets'

The nation's biggest bank announced another bang-up quarter.

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Russia open to Turkey selling S-400 air defence systems to UAE, sources say

Sources say negotiations have been under way for months, but Moscow’s final approval is still required

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Iran condemns US criminal aggression, vows to strike origins of attacks

Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the criminal military aggression carried out by the United States against Iran over the past 24 hours.

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IRGC Strikes US Aircraft Carriers’ Logistical Support Centers, Refueling Platforms in Oman - Defense news - Tasnim News Agency

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – In response to the latest American aggression on southern Iran, logistical support centers and refueling platforms of US aircraft carriers in Oman came under attack by the Islamic Re...

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‘Bring it on’: Iran pounds US military sites in Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain after renewed American assaults

The IRGC says it has destroyed the command-and-control center and MQ-9 drone hangars at the US Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan with ballistic missiles.

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IRGC Navy: Strait of Hormuz closed until US ends regional intervention

The IRGC Navy announces the closure of the Strait of Hormuz “until further notice,” saying the waterway will remain closed until the United States ends its intervention in the region.

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