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FT: The Iran crisis has not yet peaked

11:52 22.04.2026

FT: The Iran crisis has not yet peaked

The war is currently more likely to escalate than to be resolved by negotiation, ‘Financial Times’ stresses. The fog of war is a familiar idea. The US and Iran are now introducing the world to a new concept — the fog of peace. A ceasefire is in place in the …

View from Washington: Ukraine has finally given up on Trump

11:51 22.04.2026

View from Washington: Ukraine has finally given up on Trump

For more than a year after Donald Trump returned to the White House, Ukraine held out hope — at least publicly — of winning him over. Trump, who revealed his affection for Russia’s Vladimir Putin again and again, largely halted American military aid to Kyiv. But now Kyiv appears to …

New annexation reveals Israel's true goals in Lebanon

11:48 22.04.2026

New annexation reveals Israel's true goals in Lebanon

Israel, which has rushed to occupy Lebanon's legitimate territory, is facing yet another key objective. A large natural gas field has been discovered off the coast of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean shelf. Now Israel intends not only to annex Lebanon's southern regions but also to seize its gas wealth. Where …

POLITICO: Keir Starmer’s leadership vacuum threatens to swallow him up

11:46 22.04.2026

POLITICO: Keir Starmer’s leadership vacuum threatens to swallow him up

Keir Starmer’s team believed he was the perfect candidate to be British Prime Minister when he took office in July 2024. But winning an election is one thing and running the country, it turns out, requires something else, POLITICO notes. Stuck in a months-long crisis over his appointment of Peter …

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 …

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