Tom Fairless

Kitchen of the €4 billion French SSBN submarine 'Le Téméraire' in deep underwater. 🇫🇷🍽 📸 by Audrey Agostinelli / @MarineNationale

Breaking: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a new fund that would buy manufacturing companies and use AI to automate them wsj.com/tech/jeff-bezo…

The AI boom has sparked a frenzied real-estate market in San Francisco after a yearslong slump. “It’s just skyrocketed,” says one house hunter. on.wsj.com/47KY5Ic

🔥🔥On the record. @rafaelmgrossi gets to the real point on where talks were in Geneva Feb 26th. “That should tell you that there were very significant, if not disagreements, there was no alignment on what we- what many of the things that were discussed that really meant.” 🔥🔥

BREAKING: Iranian missile has hit the BAZAN oil refinery in Haifa

‘Closely monitoring’ and ‘risks to the inflation outlook titled to the upside’ are in #ECB language a clear hawkish pivot.

Some facts on the Geneva talks from my reporting. Iran wanted 30 cascades of IR-6s for future needs. NOT 30 centrifuges. Iran agreed to dilute but wanted to dilute some material to 20%. It was not just the US who weren’t given Iran’s text. It was also IAEA @rafaelmgrossi.

Remarkable story from Denmark's nat'l broadcaster. "When Danish soldiers were flown to Greenland in January...they brought explosives so they could destroy, among other things, the runways in Nuuk & Kangerlussuaq [to] prevent US mil aircraft from landing" dr.dk/nyheder/indlan…

Here we are. The so-called “Jewish war.” Exactly what I feared. In this piece published on March 10 in @WSJOpinion, a rigorous dismantling of this miserable and toxic theory which, in New York as in Paris, is spreading like wildfire. tinyurl.com/2umxd4ps

No, not even close. No one has ever had the capability to kill an entire hierarchy of political and military leaders of the enemy (and any replacements identified during the war). It challenges theories of how the will of the enemy is attacked and waging a war is imagined.

Defense Minister Israel Katz says Iran's intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Tehran overnight, while adding that "significant surprises" are expected today that will "escalate the war" with Iran and its proxy group Hezbollah in Lebanon. "During this day, significant surprises are expected across all arenas that will escalate the war we are conducting against Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon," he says during a security assessment, according to remarks provided by his office. "The intensity of the strikes in Iran is increasing. The Iranian intelligence minister Khatib was also eliminated overnight," he says. Katz says that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have also "authorized the IDF to [eliminate] any senior Iranian figure... without the need for additional approval."

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Christopher Sims, an economist whose work transformed how central banks understand cause and effect in the economy, has died at 83. on.wsj.com/47Sosfo

"We’re not seeing 2,000 Israeli missiles and drones targeting us. We’re seeing 2,000 Iranian missiles and drones targeting us. So for countries that have relations with Israel, this relationship will be strengthened. For countries that don’t have relations, I expect that more channels will be opened," @AnwarGargash tells @ethanbronner during @CFR_org event bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Over 80% of the 2,000 Iranian missiles and drones fired at U.A.E. since Feb. 28 aimed at civilian infrastructure. “This is not a military exchange. This is an attack on a peaceful nation, a nation that has been working diligently and very hard for diplomacy,” Sultan al-Jaber, the U.A.E. Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, told me in an interview. “Any long-term political settlement must address the full spectrum of threats, including Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic missile capabilities, and their network of regional proxies,” added Jaber, who also serves as CEO of the country’s ADNOC oil giant. wsj.com/world/middle-e…

The Journal reviewed the contents of one call between a senior #Iran regime police commander and an agent of the Mossad, #Israel’s foreign-intelligence service. “Can you hear me?” a Mossad agent can be heard, speaking in Farsi. “We know everything about you. You are on our blacklist, and we have all the information about you.” “OK,” the commander said in the recording. “I called to warn you in advance that you should stand with your people’s side,” the Mossad agent said. “And if you will not do that, your destiny will be as your leader. Do you hear me?” “Brother, I swear on the Quran, I’m not your enemy,” the commander said. “I’m a dead man already. Just please come help us.” wsj.com/world/middle-e…

The great Len Deighton dead ( he wouldnt have wanted euphemisms) at 97. Here's my 1962 paperback of Ipcress ( the best of all spy films by the way) - I devoured a his novels but also his " cookstrips" which really taught me how to do it..

A real mess in Paris for Macron’s centrist party. The city voted overwhelmingly for him in 2017 and 2022; the party once hoped to win the town hall. Now the candidate it backs has come 4th, merged his list with the right and stood down. Centrists unlikely to win a single big city

Defense Minister announces: Ali Larijani has been successfully assassinated.

🚨🚨🇮🇷🇮🇱 Israel struck tonight senior Iranian senior official Ali Larijani; unknown yet if he was injured/killed, Israeli official to @Jerusalem_Post