ISRAEL - Israel is “enraged by the monsters of Hamas,” Benjamin Nentayahu has said after the terror group paraded the coffins of four hostages in Gaza. The Israeli prime minister vowed to “eliminate” the Palestinian fighters after coffins assumed to contain the bodies of Shiri Bibas, four-year-old Ariel and his infant brother Kfir as well as 85-year-old Oded Lifshitz were presented on stage in Khan Yunis, central Gaza. “We are all enraged at the monsters of Hamas,” Mr Netanyahu said in a video statement, adding: “We will return all our hostages, destroy the murderers, eliminate Hamas and together - with God’s help - we will secure our future.” “The parading of bodies in Gaza is abhorrent and cruel and flies in the face of international law,” said Volker Turk, the UN’s human rights chief.

USA - The US Senate voted to confirm Kash Patel as America’s next FBI Director. Now, Patel has released his first comments since his confirmation, and MAGA Nation will love them. His fiery statement should also send shivers down the spines of the Deep State and America’s enemies. “I am honored to be confirmed as the ninth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Patel wrote on X. “Thank you to President Trump and Attorney General Bondi for your unwavering confidence and support.”

USA - Vice-President JD Vance delivered a brilliant history lesson to a neocon foreign historian (Niall Ferguson) who tried to dunk on President Trump over the Ukraine conflict. As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, Trump went off on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday for his desire to continue an unwinnable war and for canceling elections. All while American taxpayers foot the bill to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. “Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the US and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.”

USA - Nato faces a “paradigm shift” after JD Vance warned that Europe must pay for its own security, a leading British defence industry boss has warned. Charles Woodburn, the chief executive of BAE Systems, said the defence industry was ready to ramp up production to deter the threat from Russia, although he said many governments are yet to act on pledges to increase military spending. His comments come just days after Mr Vance, the US vice president, warned European leaders that they must “step up in a big way” on rearmament.

USA - Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, told senior staff at the Pentagon to work out plans to cut 8 per cent from the defence budget over each of the next five years, according to reports. If implemented, the cuts would see the defence budget of $850 billion slashed by billions at a time when the US is facing looming threats posed by China and Russia. It would amount to the largest effort to curtail defence spending since 2013. “President Trump’s charge to DoD is clear: achieve peace through strength,” Mr Hegseth wrote in the memo. “The time for preparation is over — we must act urgently to revive the warrior ethos, rebuild our military, and reestablish deterrence. Our budget will resource the fighting force we need, cease unnecessary defence spending, reject excessive bureaucracy, and drive actionable reform including progress on the audit.”

GERMANY - In the tumultuous German election campaign, which has been rocked by jaw-dropping US interference, a spate of violent attacks and rare fears for the country’s political stability, all eyes have been locked on the party most likely to finish second. When the dust settles after Sunday’s vote and conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz is – barring further surprises – elected chancellor, the 2025 race will be remembered as the moment the far-right Alternative für Deutschland, consistently polling in second place, went from sideshow to centre stage.

GERMANY - With Germany’s election just days away, a young woman’s TikTok video explaining her support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has gone viral. She’s blunt about why she’s backing AfD: rising concerns over public safety and a changing political climate. The AfD, in her view, is the only party bold enough to face Germany’s challenges head-on. Stronger borders, traditional values — it’s exactly what the country needs. Her message resonates because it cuts through the nonsense and hits on what people are truly worried about.

USA - The Social Security system just took a massive hit — thanks to DOGE uncovering what could be one of the largest frauds in American history. With over 395 million Social Security numbers on file, you’d think there was some sort of miracle happening. But the US population? Around 334 million. That’s a discrepancy you can’t just ignore. This isn’t a technical glitch — this is fraud.

USA - The Treasury Department sent $4.7 trillion dollars of payments without an identification code that links a Treasury payment to a budget line item, DOGE announced Monday, making the payments “almost impossible” to trace. DOGE said the identification payment code, called TAS for Treasury Access Symbol, is now required — as of Saturday — to increase the “insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to @USTreasury for the great work,” DOGE posted on X:

JAPAN - The cracks in Japan’s banking sector just split wide open. Norinchukin Bank, Japan’s second-largest, is teetering on the edge of liquidation, sending shockwaves through the financial world. The collapse of this massive institution could spell disaster not just for Japan but for global markets. Norinchukin has been bleeding money at an alarming rate. In the last quarter alone, the bank posted a staggering net loss of 500 billion yen. Total losses for this fiscal year? A jaw-dropping 1.4 trillion yen — about $9.2 billion. The culprit? A crumbling securities portfolio that’s shrunk from 38 trillion yen to 35.6 trillion yen in just months. The numbers paint a grim picture, but the reality might be even worse. Investors are watching closely, knowing that when major financial institutions start falling, panic can spread fast.