President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Monday morning as Israel appeared closer to launching an offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah — a move staunchly opposed by the U.S. on humanitarian grounds. The White House said Biden underscored U.S. concerns about an invasion of Rafah — where more than 1 million civilians from other parts of Gaza are sheltering after 7 months of war sparked by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
(Bloomberg Markets) On a sweltering late-summer evening last year in southern Egypt, the country’s most storied hotel was bustling once again, hosting personalities with ambitions of shaping the world. In the more than a century since it opened, Aswan’s Old Cataract, perched on a rocky outcrop on the Nile River’s eastern bank, has welcomed the likes of Winston Churchill, Jimmy Carter and Tsar Nicholas II. For Agatha Christie, in whose former suite you can now stay for upwards of $8,000 a nigh