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Speaking Less, Doing More

11:47 21.04.2026

Speaking Less, Doing More

“A woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster vessel of ointment, And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her …

Strait of Hormuz closure and food security

11:46 21.04.2026 Andrey Kadomtsev

Strait of Hormuz closure and food security

With the situation around the Strait of Hormuz remaining uncertain, on April 17, Iran announced that the strait was now open for shipping. However, on the very next day, the situation changed dramatically after the Iranian military announced that it was resuming its strict control over the strategic waterway. Tehran …

FT: Iran is America’s Suez crisis — and just as ridiculous

11:45 21.04.2026

FT: Iran is America’s Suez crisis — and just as ridiculous

The parallels with Britain’s disastrous Middle East adventure in the 1950s are impossible to resist, ‘Financial Times’ notes. The war in Iran launched by the US and Israel has attracted comparison to one of imperial history’s greatest embarrassments: the Suez Crisis. In 1956, Britain and France colluded with Israel to …

WSJ: Germany is reinventing itself as a weapons factory

11:43 21.04.2026

WSJ: Germany is reinventing itself as a weapons factory

As its export model breaks down, Germany is pivoting from cars to cannons — and trying to turn industrial decline into a defense boom. Now, as American security guarantees look less certain and Europe races to rearm, Berlin is positioning itself to become the backbone of the continent’s defense industry, …

View from London: Iran holds the trump card in this crisis

11:41 21.04.2026

View from London: Iran holds the trump card in this crisis

All Tehran must do is survive for another few months and wait for the oil crunch to really bite, ‘The Telegraph’ notes. Every day that the showdown continues in the Gulf, the world is deprived of an eighth of its oil supply and must draw deeper into its vanishing inventories. …

WP: Here’s what the stock market might have gotten wrong about the Iran war

11:35 21.04.2026

WP: Here’s what the stock market might have gotten wrong about the Iran war

As stocks soared and oil prices dropped amid an apparent cooling of tensions between the United States and Iran, it may have left the impression that the energy shock that rattled the world would quickly fade, along with the risk of sending the global economy into recession. The optimism may …

Sergey Lavrov: “Anyone who has been closely following recent developments is aware that threats in Eurasia are significantly up which requires us to make additional efforts”

22:13 20.04.2026

Sergey Lavrov: “Anyone who has been closely following recent developments is aware that threats in Eurasia are significantly up which requires us to make additional efforts”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement at a meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly. Moscow, April 20, 2026 Mr Volodin, Participants of the meeting, On January 1, 2026, Russia assumed the chairmanship of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation. Our tenure proceeds under the motto, Collective Security in a …

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of Iran Abbas Araghchi

22:02 20.04.2026

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of Iran Abbas Araghchi

Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of Iran Abbas Araghchi. On April 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Abbas Araghchi. Abbas Araghchi informed Sergey Lavrov of the Islamic Republic’s position regarding ceasefire …

Bulgarian voters, worn down by corruption, back new coalition

14:39 20.04.2026

Bulgarian voters, worn down by corruption, back new coalition

Bulgarians voted decisively on Sunday for politicians promising change and a crackdown on corruption, delivering a blow to the center-right party that had dominated for the last decade, ‘The New York Times’ reports. Former President Rumen Radev, leader of a new coalition, Progressive Bulgaria, claimed an “uncontested victory” in comments …

Power of Confession

9:51 20.04.2026

Power of Confession

The Lord asked the apostles who they thought He was, and St. Peter answered for everybody: “Thou art the Christ" [Mk. 8:29]. It took time for this confession of faith to mature; but when it did, it rooted deeply in the heart, becoming its basic navigation instrument. Marred, though not …

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