Europe

Four young female U.S. tourists were attacked with acid Sunday in the French city of Marseille by a woman with "deep psychological problems" who has been arrested, the Marseille prosecutor's office said according to AP. 

The attack took place shortly after 11am at the Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles station, where the party from the US was preparing to board a train. The 41-year-old attacker used a cleaning substance containing hydrochloric acid that she is thought to have picked up from a local DIY store.

On Thursday, just as the S&P hit its latest all time high, the broad US equity index surpassed the 266% increase recorded during the 1949 to 1956 bull market from its March 2009 "generational lows", in the process becoming the 3rd strongest bull market - artificial and central bank-driven as it may be - in history.

It also prompted Citi to calculate the odds of an imminent market correction (one starting in the next 3 months) at 45%. 

Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com,

For what seems like decades, other countries have been tiptoeing away from their dependence on the US dollar.

China, Russia, and India have cut deals in which they agree to accept each others’ currencies for bi-lateral trade while Europe, obviously, designed the euro to be a reserve asset and international medium of exchange.

These were challenges to the dollar’s dominance, but they weren’t mortal threats.

The German government has opened an probe into an illegal Pentagon arms trafficking operation after a bombshell investigative report on the secret program went viral this week.

Late on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Julian Assange might be able to provide proof that there's no truth to the Russia collusion narrative - even as Facebook’s admission that it sold at least $100,000 worth of advertising to a Russian troll farm bent on bolstering support for President Donald Trump has purportedly revived the narrative in the eyes of Trump's political opponents.