🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Talkalakh, Syria: Journalist Yara Assi shares report that local militant 'Abu Muawiya' has formed an independent militia, claiming that his group kills people & throws their bodies on roads, stole military & state vehicles, with claims that he is promising to genocide minorities.
🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Talkalakh, Syria: Journalist Yara Assi shares report that local militant 'Abu Muawiya' has formed an independent militia, claiming that his group kills people & throws their bodies on roads, stole military & state vehicles, with claims that he is promising to genocide minorities.
Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. Lastly, the web previews of t.me links have been given a new look, adding chat backgrounds and design elements from the fully-features Telegram Web client. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had carried out a similar exercise in 2017 in a matter related to circulation of messages through WhatsApp. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields.
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