🎖️ TEL AVIV — Netanyahu says it's not over, but he's not the one bombing Iran. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Five US strike waves, no Israeli jets — Washington is running this campaign while Jerusalem narrates it. Netanyahu declaring the war unfinished signals Israel wants the endgame to include more than Hormuz: nuclear sites, IRGC leadership, regime change calculus. That ambition diverges from Trump's stated ceiling of no full war.
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📉 LONDON — The war just forced the first BoE rate hike in three years. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: With Hormuz logistics up 600% and Brent still carrying a $27 geopolitical premium, UK inflation has crossed the threshold the BoE could no longer absorb. Rate hikes cool demand but cannot fix a supply shock
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🤝 MOSCOW — Moscow waited for the midterm verdict before sending anyone to Washington. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Dmitriev's visit is Russia's first probe of post-midterm Washington — arriving when Trump is weakened, Vance is breaking with Epic Fury, and Congress has flipped. Moscow reads GOP fracture as leverage: a
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✈️ DUBAI — The Gulf's flagship carrier is bleeding while its hub sits under a war premium. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Emirates absorbing profit collapse signals the UAE economy is paying war costs regardless of Abu Dhabi's diplomatic posture. A crippled Emirates compresses UAE fiscal bandwidth — the same government Al
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🛢️ ADIPEC — The UAE's own energy minister just put numbers on a crisis his country can't escape. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Al Jaber's figures — 30% logistics cost share vs. 5% pre-crisis, 600 bcf LNG shortfall, 35-year diesel lows — convert Hormuz disruption from geopolitical abstraction to