Rubio Voices Support for Hungarian PM Orbán Ahead of Elections

Archbishop Paul Coakley, head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has condemned President Trump’s threat to destroy a “civilization” in Iran and urged an end to the war, echoing Pope Leo XIV’s appeals for peace. “The threat of destroying a whole civilization and the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure cannot be morally justified. […]

Welcome To Realpolitik, Which Will Be Co-Hosting Every World Cup From Now On By Michael Every of Rabobank It's easy to talk of the 'collapse of the rules-based order', but for most people it's too abstract to impact on their day-to-day lives. Then the US president --who claims he didn't know what a red card was-- calls up the head of FIFA to ask if the US World Cup team's leading scorer Balogun can have one suspended to play the round of 16 game vs Belgium - and it is. That...

The Islamic Terrorist Conquest Of West Africa Authored by Lawrence Franklin via The Gatestone Institute, The widened scope and quickened pace of the Islamic State's military operations in the Sahel region -- just below North Africa, roughly from Senegal to Sudan -- threatens to alter the strategic orientation of the African continent. Efforts at countering terrorist operations in the Sahel, such as they were, have evidently failed. As all roads to Mali's capital of Bamoko are now blocked, that country might be the first state to "go under." On April 25, during a...