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🚨🇸🇦🇮🇳Elderly Saudi man called the police on a motorbike rider displaying the Indian flag, mistakenly believing it was Iranian flag!

The fate of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile, a key U.S. demand, would be decided in follow up negotiations expected to last between 30 and 60 days - NYT

Polish cities like Warsaw are being OVERRUN by thousands of wild boars… and while they may look cute, they’re dangerous. They weigh up to 300 lbs, can run up to 30 mph, and are equipped with razor-sharp tusks. They’ve injured residents, killed pets, and caused numerous car accidents in cities across the country. So why can't local governments just remove them? Due to fears about African Swine Fever (ASF), capturing and moving them is illegal, to protect the massive pig farming industry in Poland. Polish law also bans firing weapons within 150 m of buildings, and attempts at urban culling trigger immediate backlash from animal rights groups. With no natural predators in the cities, these boars are thriving… and wreaking havoc along the way. But most would probably take these invaders over the kind the rest of Europe is dealing with 😂

Shameful and shocking way to treat a foreign guest by the Indians - Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a very senior US official and could well be the next US President An Air Force officer and a local police officer received the US dignitary and his wife as their official jet landed in Agra

A second battle-damaged KC-135 tanker has been spotted at RAF Mildenhall in the UK. The aircraft, tail number 63-8028 from the Alaska Air National Guard's 168th Wing, arrived from Tel Aviv with extensive shrapnel repair patches on the tail, vertical stabilizer, flaps, and spoilers, and is missing its refueling boom entirely. At least five KC-135s were damaged in the March 2026 Iranian strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

INFLATION IS OUTPACING WAGES across the world's largest economies: In the US, consumer prices rose +3.8% YoY in April while average hourly earnings grew just +3.6%, meaning inflation exceeded wage growth for the first time in 2 years. In the UK, real wage growth slowed to just +0.1% in the 3 months to March and is set to turn negative as inflation accelerates and hiring weakens. In the Eurozone, the energy shock has wiped out the wage recovery that workers had only just achieved after the 2021 to 2022 inflationary surge, with real wage growth expected to be close to zero across the bloc in 2026. The purchasing power of workers across the US, UK, and Eurozone is being quietly eroded, and rising commodity prices are making it worse.

NTA: cannot conduct a fair exam. CBSE: cannot conduct fair copy checking. SSC: Paper leak & server down. This is how the Indian educational system operates.

NEET paper leaked, now SSC GD paper has issues Not a single institute can conduct a fair examination in India.

A CENTCOM representative commented on the latest US strikes 🤩Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM representative, in an interview with Fox News, commenting on the attacks of the last few hours, stated: 🤩“Today, American forces carried out strikes in self-defense in southern Iran to protect our personnel from threats from the Iranians. The targets were missile launch pads and Iranian boats that were trying to lay mines.

Israel Hayom: "America has no picture of victory, and it has not achieved any of its goals." The only real news in the possible agreement at this stage is the mutual opening of the Strait of Hormuz. Other issues have been postponed until negotiations, which are due to begin at an unspecified date. Iran has achieved its goal — it has ensured its survival. The Islamic Republic has stood its ground and even demonstrated its international strength by closing the Strait of Hormuz. America, on the contrary, has not achieved any of its stated goals. Trump cannot now claim that he has eliminated the nuclear threat from Iran, stopped its missile program, or put an end to the regime's support for its proxy groups. On the contrary, this agreement explicitly stipulates that Hezbollah will also observe the ceasefire. In other words, America recognizes the Islamic Republic as a military and political player in Lebanon and grants it room for action, which completely contradicts the goals of the war.

Zero tourism India is no longer struggling to attract tourists… it is now struggling to handle the crowd. From mountains to beaches, every tourist destination is packed. People spend more time stuck in traffic than actually enjoying the journey. This scene from Sikkim’s Zero Point is not an exception anymore it’s becoming the new normal across India.”

THIS IS INSANE 🚨 DeepSeek is now up to 50x CHEAPER than OpenAI and Anthropic for AI tokens. DeepSeek’s latest permanent 75% price cut pushed some inference costs down to fractions of a cent per million tokens. AI companies charge based on input tokens, output tokens, cached tokens and reasoning tokens. 1 BILLION output tokens costs approximately, $3,480 in DeepSeek, $30,000 in OpenAI GPT-5.5 and $15,000 in Claude Sonnet. That’s why enterprises are panicking, A coding agent can burn millions of tokens PER DAY. If 10,000 engineers each consume 10 million AI tokens per day, annual costs could range from just MILLIONS with DeepSeek to BILLIONS with OpenAI or Anthropic models. Microsoft is reportedly cancelling most Claude Code licenses internally and pushing engineers toward its own cheaper GitHub Copilot tools instead, while Uber already used it's entire year AI budget by April due to heavy usage by it's engineers. The smarter AI models become, the longer they think, the more tokens they generate and the more compute they burn. Reasoning AI models secretly generate massive internal tokens before replying, meaning a visible 5,000 token response can actually consume 20,000 to 100,000+ effective reasoning tokens. That’s why OpenAI is pushing mini models, Google is pushing Flash and Anthropic is aggressively optimizing token caching. The biggest problem with AI may not be how smart it is, but how expensive it becomes at scale. In the future, the winners may be the companies that offer good enough AI at the cheapest cost.

Real wages are shrinking across the U.S. and Europe, and the Strait of Hormuz is the reason. U.S. inflation hit 3.8% in April. Hourly earnings grew 3.6%. Prices are outpacing pay for the first time in two years. In the Eurozone, real wage growth is expected to be close to zero for all of 2026. In France, it could already be "deeply negative." The culprit is the energy shock from the Hormuz closure driving up petrol and airfare prices faster than workers can negotiate. JPMorgan's chief U.S. economist says if the strait reopens and energy prices retreat, real wages should recover.

North Korea just fired several missiles, including at least one short-range ballistic missile, toward waters off its west coast. First launch since April 19. Kim's timing, as always, is impeccable.

Newsom's office tried to take a jab at Trump over gas prices, but here's the detail they seem to have forgotten: California imposes the nation's highest state-level taxes and environmental fees on gasoline. It means their prices are often $1.50–$2+ above the national average. Here's an idea, Gavin: instead of blaming Trump, how about you reduce taxes instead? But then, that wouldn't fit your narrative would it?

Mojtaba Khamenei just published a new message as Iran's negotiators sit in Doha. The highlights: •⁠ ⁠Called the war against the U.S. and Israel a victory for the Islamic resistance •⁠ ⁠Said Israel is nearing the final stages of its "cursed demise" •⁠ ⁠Declared America will no longer have safe military bases in the region •⁠ ⁠Called on Iranian Hajj pilgrims to spread the message of Iran's victory to fellow Muslims worldwide •⁠ ⁠Invited all Islamic nations to unite toward a new regional order Not exactly the language of a country ready to make concessions.

Total miss Trump demanded that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt, and Jordan sign the Abraham Accords as part of any Iran ceasefire deal. Pakistan immediately rejected the proposal, calling the two issues "not interlinked and cannot be made so." Saudi Arabia's longstanding position requires a roadmap to Palestinian statehood before normalizing with Israel. #Israël #IranWar #IranIsraelWar #IsraelIranConflict #USIranWar #الامارات #Israel #Dubai #السعودية #Trump #Irán #IsraelisFirst

The last 3 major market crashes had one thing in common, inflation above 3.8%. This is not a coincidence or a pattern someone cherry picked. It has happened six times in the last 55 years. Every single time inflation crossed that threshold, the S&P 500 entered a bear market or a severe correction. The dot-com crash: −49%. The 2008 financial crisis: −57%. The 2022 rate hike selloff: −25%. The mechanism is always the same. When inflation crosses 4%, the Fed has no choice but to keep rates high or raise them. Higher rates increase the discount rate on every stock in the market, which automatically compresses valuations. They also raise borrowing costs for companies, squeeze consumer spending, and raise the probability of a recession. Every one of those things hits stock prices. Right now US CPI just came in at 3.8% for April 2026, the highest reading since May 2023 and it is accelerating, not slowing down. The ISM Manufacturing Prices Paid index, which leads consumer inflation by roughly 6 months, just hit 84.6, its highest reading since April 2022, when CPI was running at 8.3%. In the last three months alone it has risen 25.6 percentage points, the fastest acceleration since the 2021 supply shock. This indicator has historically told you where CPI is going before it gets there. Energy prices are up 17.9% year over year and account for over 40% of the monthly CPI increase. The Iran conflict pushed oil from $65 last year to the low $80s, with brief spikes toward $120 when Strait of Hormuz closure risk was priced in. The Strait carries one-fifth of global oil and LNG supply. Goldman Sachs estimates the current geopolitical risk premium at $14 per barrel above pre-conflict levels. Food inflation is still relatively contained at 3.2% year over year. But food production, transportation, and distribution are all energy-intensive. In 2021, energy led and food followed with a 9-12 month lag. That same sequence appears to be playing out right now. The Federal Reserve is holding rates at 3.50-3.75% with almost no room to move. The March 2026 dot plot shows 7 officials expecting no rate cuts at all in 2026. A Reuters survey of 103 economists found nearly one-third now forecast zero cuts this year. Apollo's chief economist has said explicitly that the Fed is forecasting stagflation, rising inflation and rising unemployment at the same time. The S&P 500 is sitting near all-time highs while all of this is happening. Real wages just turned negative for the first time in three years. Wages are up 3.6% while inflation is running at 3.8%. Americans spent 25% more on fuel in March than in February. The purchasing power squeeze has started. But here is a legitimate counter argument. US energy production is far higher than in the 1970s, shelter inflation is moderating, and inflation expectations remain relatively anchored compared to that era. A full 1970s repeat requires conditions, a complete Strait of Hormuz closure, a total de-anchoring of expectations, that are not the base case. But the pattern has repeated six times. CPI is at 3.8% and every leading indicator points higher. The market has not priced this in.

NEW: Iran shot down one or more MQ-9 drones What happened in chronological order: • Yesterday, the US entered the Strait of Hormoz to attack IRGC speedboats & fisher boats, Iran’s air defenses countered the threat & shot down MQ-9 drones. According to preliminary reports, 2 MQ-9 drones were shot down by the IRGC & one by the Army's air defense. • The downing of these drones in less than 20 minutes caused the US to become confused and disorganized, and unable to locate the air defense site, they attacked several points on Qeshm and Jask islands. • US attacked Iranian boats again • The IRGC responded against US navy vessels tonight. This also explains why Trump posted the AI image yesterday.

Every signal points to a deal being finalized in the next few days. Here's why: Trump just offered Iran three options for the enriched uranium, including destroying it in place. Reports also emerged that Iran wants some of the uranium transferred to China instead of the U.S. These aren't contradictory positions. They're two sides negotiating the final detail. Trump says destroy it anywhere with witnesses. Iran says send it to Beijing. The compromise is somewhere in between, and both sides are now close enough to be arguing over the where instead of the whether. Pakistan's Asim Munir heading to Doha means the mediator who has saved this ceasefire at every critical juncture is positioning himself at the table for the final round. The U.S. conducting "self-defense strikes" on Iranian missile sites and boats during an active ceasefire while calling it "restraint" tells you the military is maintaining pressure right up to the signature line. Both sides are still shooting and still negotiating simultaneously, the same pattern that has defined this entire conflict. Qatar resolving the frozen assets. China guaranteeing the deal. Pakistan delivering the final shuttle diplomacy. And Trump publicly softening on uranium. The architecture is built.