Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region, according to two officials familiar with US intelligence on the matter. The officials, who were not authorised to comment publicly on the sensitive matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity, cautioned that US intelligence has not uncovered that Russia is directin...
Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region, according to two officials familiar with US intelligence on the matter. The officials, who were not authorised to comment publicly on the sensitive matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity, cautioned that US intelligence has not uncovered that Russia is directing Iran on what to do with the information as the US and Israel continue their bombardment and Iran fires retaliatory salvoes at American assets and allies in the Persian Gulf. Still, it is the first indication that Moscow has sought to get involved in the war that the US and Israel launched on Iran a week ago. Russia is in the rare club of countries that maintains friendly relations with Tehran, which has faced years of isolation over its nuclear programme and its support of proxy groups that have wreaked havoc in the Middle East, including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis. Advertisement The White House downplayed reports that Russia was sharing intelligence with Iran about US targets in the region. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday told reporters that “it clearly is not making any difference with respect to the military operations in Iran because we are completely decimating them”. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a CBS 60 Minutes interview on Friday, said the US is “tracking everything” and factoring it into battle plans when asked about the reports Russia was aiding Iran. Advertisement “The American people can rest assured their commander-in-chief is well aware of who’s talking to who,” he said. “And anything that shouldn’t be happening, whether it’s in public or back-channelled, is being confronted and confronted strongly.”
Retail investors are famously locked out of the startup world. Robinhood is attempting to change that by allowing the general public to invest in a portfolio of what it calls “some of the most exciting private companies operating today.” To do this, the company that pioneered the commission-free brokerage model has secured access to eight startups—including Databricks, Stripe, Mercor, and Oura—gro...
Retail investors are famously locked out of the startup world. Robinhood is attempting to change that by allowing the general public to invest in a portfolio of what it calls “some of the most exciting private companies operating today.” To do this, the company that pioneered the commission-free brokerage model has secured access to eight startups—including Databricks, Stripe, Mercor, and Oura—grouping them into a vehicle called Robinhood Ventures Fund I. The fund, which also includes Ramp, Airwallex, Revolut, and Boom, set out last month with an ambitious $1 billion target, but demand for this novel way of investing in private companies was lower than expected. On Thursday, Robinhood announced the fund had raised $658.4 million — which could reach $705.7 million if underwriters exercise their full allotment. The shares, priced at $25 in the offering, began trading on Friday and closed the day at $21, a 16% decline. RVI’s reception on Wall Street stands in stark contrast to another attempt to give individual investors exposure to buzzy startups. When Destiny Tech100 — a publicly traded, closed-end fund holding stakes in 100 venture-backed companies including SpaceX, OpenAI, and Discord — direct-listed on the NYSE in March 2024, its shares surged from a reference price of $4.84 to an opening trade of $8.25, eventually closing its first day at $9.00. Destiny Tech100 has kept climbing since its public debut. The fund closed trading on Friday at $26.61, a 33% premium to its net asset value of $19.97, meaning its shares trade well above the actual value of its underlying holdings. So what explains why retail investors aren’t nearly as excited about Robinhood’s fund as they are about Destiny Tech 100? The most likely explanation is RVI’s lack of exposure to the companies widely expected to go public at enormous valuations: OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX. Robinhood is looking to address this. RVI intends to add more startups to the fund, eventually aiming to hold what Robin...
Members of the committee leading the campaign to cut the licence fee say they had nothing to do with the RT piece, no contact with Russian media and do not agree with the accusation that SBC journalism is selective or manipulative.
Members of the committee leading the campaign to cut the licence fee say they had nothing to do with the RT piece, no contact with Russian media and do not agree with the accusation that SBC journalism is selective or manipulative.
Donald Trump said on Friday that only Iran’s “unconditional surrender” will bring an end to the offensive launched seven days ago, as the US and Israel carried out some of the heaviest bombardments so far in the conflict. “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, when US strategic bombers were in action over Iran and intensive Israe...
Donald Trump said on Friday that only Iran’s “unconditional surrender” will bring an end to the offensive launched seven days ago, as the US and Israel carried out some of the heaviest bombardments so far in the conflict. “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, when US strategic bombers were in action over Iran and intensive Israeli strikes in Lebanon forced more than 1 million people to flee their homes. Israeli and US officials threatened further escalation as Iran retaliated with more attacks across a swathe of the Middle East. The biggest single loss of civilian life reported so far in the conflict came in an apparent airstrike on an Iranian girls’ school on Saturday, which killed more than 100 students. Military investigators in the US believe it is likely US forces were responsible but have not yet reached a final conclusion, Reuters reported. The war has killed at least 1,230 people in Iran and about a dozen in Israel, according to officials in those countries. Six US troops have been killed. Oil supplies have been disrupted, tens of thousands of flights have been cancelled and international stock markets have been rocked. Catching up? Here’s what happened on 5 March 2026.
The prime ministers of South Korea and Singapore will be among the world leaders attending this month’s Boao Forum for Asia, three sources said, adding to a growing string of leaders from developed economies who have visited China this year. The annual conference is scheduled to be held in Boao, Hainan province, from March 24 to 27, its organiser announced earlier. Singaporean Prime Minister Lawre...
The prime ministers of South Korea and Singapore will be among the world leaders attending this month’s Boao Forum for Asia, three sources said, adding to a growing string of leaders from developed economies who have visited China this year. The annual conference is scheduled to be held in Boao, Hainan province, from March 24 to 27, its organiser announced earlier. Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong Shyun Tsai’s most recent trip to China was in June, when he met President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang and attended the Annual Meeting of the New Champions – also known as Summer Davos – in Tianjin. Advertisement South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-seok will be following in the footsteps of his country’s president, Lee Jae Myung, who visited China for four days in January amid a revival in bilateral ties. Other details of the two leaders’ itineraries in China have yet to be confirmed, the sources said. Advertisement In the past two months, the prime ministers of the United Kingdom and Canada and the chancellor of Germany have visited China. Meanwhile, the White House has announced that US President Donald Trump will travel to China from March 31 to April 2. The annual Boao Forum, inaugurated 25 years ago, is a high-level platform at which political and business leaders can foster regional ties.
The Trump administration has said Saturday's summit aims to "enlist and expand" US friends in the Western Hemisphere and limit Chinese engagement across the Americas, including moving to prevent rivals from establishing military or strategic footholds in the region. The meeting follows Trump's recent focus on the Caribbean, and his earlier statements about how the US should "take back" the Panama ...
The Trump administration has said Saturday's summit aims to "enlist and expand" US friends in the Western Hemisphere and limit Chinese engagement across the Americas, including moving to prevent rivals from establishing military or strategic footholds in the region. The meeting follows Trump's recent focus on the Caribbean, and his earlier statements about how the US should "take back" the Panama Canal from China.
'Victory' In Iran Will Look Nothing Like 1945 Authored by James Howard Kunstler , You probably wonder what the end of this war will look like. It won’t look like V-J Day in Times Square, 1945, with sailors kissing girls they met five seconds ago . Our country is way too divided and disturbed with politically-inflected mental illness for love to bloom in the streets like it did then. If you happen ...
'Victory' In Iran Will Look Nothing Like 1945 Authored by James Howard Kunstler , You probably wonder what the end of this war will look like. It won’t look like V-J Day in Times Square, 1945, with sailors kissing girls they met five seconds ago . Our country is way too divided and disturbed with politically-inflected mental illness for love to bloom in the streets like it did then. If you happen to catch the glum crew on CNN you will detect that they really want this operation to fail because, you know, Trump. Terminally Depressed on CNN The war will be over when Iran loses the ability to spray missiles and drones all over the place — and notice how they are pouring it on the Emirate states, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and even Azerbaijan, for Gawdsake, turning would-be bystanders into pissed-off additional enemies they need like a hole in the head. At some point they will run out of ordnance, or the will to roll them out of the supposed 10,000 bat caves their weapons are stashed in. Our side apparently has an uncanny knack for seeing the launchers creep into daylight and efficiently blowing them up. Creates a disincentive to even think about launching. Of course, Iran might have some spectacular last-ditch thingie they can unleash to horrify the world — perhaps a “dirty” bomb that uses the 460 kilos of 60-percent enriched uranium they bragged about at one of the last negotiation sessions before the war with Witkoff and Kushner. Standing by on that. But, at some point a week or so hence, a stillness will fall upon the earth and sky above Iran, and that will be all she wrote for sheer havoc. Victory will not look much like anything. Just that stillness. The body politic in Iran is another matter. Expect awful turmoil. Iran’s command structure is shattered. Officials don’t dare pick a room in some building to meet in . The Internet is down and most communication with it. Nobody knows who is really in charge, and nobody may be in charge, not for quite a long time to c...