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Foreign Intelligence Service: UK, France readying to arm Ukraine with nuclear bomb

13:20 24.02.2026

Foreign Intelligence Service: UK, France readying to arm Ukraine with nuclear bomb

According to the SVR, the British and the French realize that their plot is "a gross violation of the international law, first of all the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and carries the risk of destroying the global non-proliferation system", TASS reports. Paris and London are actively working to provide Kiev with a …

Abrahamic Covenant: Sacred Text or Title Deed?

12:11 24.02.2026 Lily Ong

Abrahamic Covenant: Sacred Text or Title Deed?

"To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates," says God to Abraham in Genesis 15:18. 2013: Way of the Suffering The year was 2013. Led by a Palestinian guide, I walked through the Via Dolorosa. This meandering, 600-meter path through …

Doing Your Duty is Nothing Special

11:28 24.02.2026

Doing Your Duty is Nothing Special

Yesterday the Gospel taught us persistence in prayer, and today it gives us a lesson of humility and modesty in our claims. Never claim for yourself a right to be heard — but rather pray to the Lord as one having no rights whatsoever, as one having boldness to open …

Bloomberg: China, India among winners after US Court blocked Trump tariffs

11:26 24.02.2026

Bloomberg: China, India among winners after US Court blocked Trump tariffs

In a swift reversal of fortunes, countries that had been hardest hit by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs have emerged as the biggest winners from the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down his emergency levies, Bloomberg notes. China, India and Brazil are among those now seeing lower tariff rates for …

NYT: Why attacking Iran could be riskier than capturing Maduro

11:24 24.02.2026

NYT: Why attacking Iran could be riskier than capturing Maduro

Iran’s extensive military abilities and network of regional proxies could draw the United States into a prolonged conflict, ‘The New York Times’ warns. When President Trump said in January that a U.S. “armada” was heading to Iran, he compared it with the kind of force used in the military’s recent …

View from Washington: A “romantic streak” to U.S. relations with Europe in the Trump era

11:22 24.02.2026

View from Washington: A “romantic streak” to U.S. relations with Europe in the Trump era

There is a kind of romantic streak to U.S. relations with Europe in the Trump era, ‘National Review’ notes. There is something surprising about American-European relations. Donald Trump has, more than any other recent president, emphasized the transactional nature of politics, even international politics. Sure, presidents going back to Eisenhower …

NI: No easy solutions to Europe’s Geopolitical Trilemma

11:18 24.02.2026

NI: No easy solutions to Europe’s Geopolitical Trilemma

In seeking defense, economic and energy autonomy, Europe must diversify its partnerships and hedge against Russia, China, and an increasingly unpredictable United States, ‘The National Interest’ notes. As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) first Secretary General, Lord Ismay, said back in the 1950s, NATO’s purpose was to “Keep the …

FA: No NATO ahead – Europe needs a personal Army

11:16 24.02.2026

FA: No NATO ahead – Europe needs a personal Army

The Transatlantic alliance is on the ropes, ‘Foreign Affairs’ states. Since the end of World War II, American power has underwritten European unification and integration—arguably Washington’s greatest foreign policy accomplishment. But the Trump administration has made clear that the United States is no longer interested in acting as Europe’s security …

Constancy in Prayer

10:28 23.02.2026

Constancy in Prayer

In order to better illustrate the truth “that men ought always to pray, and not to faint" [Lk. 18; 1 ] if the prayer is not immediately answered, but to keep praying, the Lord says the parable about the judge who had no fear of God and no shame of …

Hungary blocks €90bn EU loan to Ukraine

10:26 23.02.2026

Hungary blocks €90bn EU loan to Ukraine

Viktor Orbán has intensified his anti-Ukraine rhetoric ahead of elections where he risks being toppled, ‘Financial Times’ writes. Hungary has blocked an agreed €90bn EU loan for Ukraine aimed at stabilising the war-torn country’s finances, just days before the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion. The Hungarian ambassador to the …

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