Defense stocks in Europe are continuing to see their prices surge amid all the global instability, with its main index, the STOXX Europe TM Aerospace and Defense index, increasing by 14 percent to begin the year, according to a report.
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POLAND LOOKS TO REVIVE ITS NAVY AMID WHAT IT SEES AS A THREAT FROM MOSCOW
Poland announced last week that it will attempt to revamp its navy to be better able to defend itself and its interests in the Baltic Sea amid claims from European countries that Russia has exploited the waters during the Ukraine War.
RUSSIA LAUNCHES MAJOR STRIKE ON KYIV, POWER FACILITIES AS WAR DRAGS ON
Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, was on the receiving end of another major Russian drone and missile attack early Saturday as negotiators met with the UAE to continue talks to bring an end to the war.
DUMMY BOARD: NETANYAHU JOINS GAZA BOARD OF PEACE
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced last week that Israel will join President Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace,” which is ostensibly intended to focus on the future of Gaza and its inhabitants, but it has been widely criticized as a farce.
ISRAEL DEMOLISHES UNRWA HEADQUARTERS IN EAST JERUSALEM IN ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ ATTACK
Phillippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), called Israel’s demolition of his agency’s offices in occupied East Jerusalem an “unprecedented attack” and a “new level of open and deliberate defiance of international law” by Israel.
ISRAEL ACCUSED OF KILLING AT LEAST 84 PALESTINIANS IN ‘NETWORK OF TORTURE CAMPS’
B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, released a report on Thursday that said from the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 to the beginning of January 2026, at least 84 detained Palestinians died in Israeli prisons or detention facilities, which the report said are more like a “network of torture camps.”
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, both of which specialize in structuring mergers and acquisitions, posted hefty earnings from 2025’s final quarter, closing out investment banking’s richest year since the COVID War.
SPOTLIGHT: THE REALIGNMENT OF GLOBAL TRADE
With Canadian products facing stiff U.S. tariffs, the country has negotiated a far-reaching trade deal with China. Canadian prime minister Mark Carney inked the deal with Chinese president Xi Jinping during the first visit to China in eight years by a Canadian chief of state.
EU PARLIAMENT MAY LINK U.S. TRADE DEAL TO GREENLAND
The European Union’s (EU’s) parliament has yet to approve the trade agreement EU officials negotiated with the U.S. in July. Now the body is considering refusing to ratify the deal unless Donald Trump pledges to not seize control of Greenland.









