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Donald Trump rejected Iran's seven-day ceasefire proposal and told his advisers that he could launch airstrikes against the Islamic Republic again after the November midterm elections – the Wall Street Journal reported, citing American officials.

Technology billionaire Peter Thiel called Pope Leo XIV a "useful idiot" of the Chinese Communist Party for the Catholic pontiff's calls for international regulation of the development and use of artificial intelligence. According to Thiel, such restrictions would primarily hold back the United States and its allies, while China would continue its own technological program unimpeded.

By August, battery electric cars already accounted for 29 percent of new car sales in Europe, compared with 20.2 percent a year earlier — meaning that within a single year the share of purely electric models on the continent grew by nearly nine percentage points. The calculation by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) covers the European Union, Norway and Iceland; in this group

Romania's National Cybersecurity Directorate (DNSC) is warning children and teenagers about an increasingly widespread online fraud method. The attack, known as ClickFix, is unusual in that the perpetrators do not hack into the victim's computer directly, but instead trick the user into running the malicious command on their own device.

Two studies published simultaneously may bring us closer to answering whether life could exist beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The research, published in the journal Science Advances, has of course not discovered any extraterrestrial organisms, but it has established far more than simply that "there is water there, so there could be life." One study shows that Enceladus's hidden

It is something of a minor miracle that the national minorities' group in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies does not want to support the investiture of the government led by Siegfried Mureșan. This group includes representatives of national minorities other than Hungarians, since the RMDSZ (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania) has its own separate parliamentary faction.

As we have already reported on Ugaron, the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy article on the activities of US Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle in Greece. Donald Trump's son's former fiancée allegedly boasted to the Greek energy minister at a dinner in Athens in March, referring to the expected fall of Romania's Bolojan government, that the United States "can do this to any country," and that it

The joint standing committee of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate decided on Saturday that the joint session of Romania's two parliamentary chambers on the investiture of the government led by Siegfried Mureșan will be held on Wednesday, September 30, starting at 1 p.m.

The Americans wanted to sell expensive LNG to Romania, and the PSD energy minister pushed for the deal with the involvement of an intermediary, but Ilie Bolojan did not show sufficient enthusiasm. Afterwards, one of Donald Trump's closest political confidants boasted at a dinner in Athens about the Romanian government's imminent collapse. Two months later, Bolojan's cabinet did indeed fall, thanks

Our editorial staff have close ties to Hungarian football ultras who once led a fast-paced supporter life. The piece below is one of theirs, and we are publishing it unchanged. We add no commentary now, except this: Slava Ukraini!

Prime minister-designate Siegfried Mureșan submitted his government program and the list of his ministers to Parliament on Saturday, officially launching the parliamentary procedure for the cabinet's investiture. The ministerial candidates are expected to be heard by the specialized committees on Monday, and the confidence vote could take place on Tuesday. So the ministers are set, the program is

A Romanian government attempt is taking shape: PNL, USR and RMDSZ have divided the ministries among themselves, and prime-minister-designate Siegfried Mureșan will submit the government programme and his cabinet list to Parliament on Saturday. Hearings of the ministerial candidates are planned for Monday, and the day of real tension – if nothing upsets the schedule – will be Tuesday, when the legi

The regional water utility in Buzău County has reduced network water loss using AI-supported noise sensors. The system monitors the sounds and vibrations produced by water escaping from pressurized pipes, then uses the data to identify areas where a hidden pipe break or leak is likely located.

The maritime dimension of the Russia–Ukraine war has effectively paralyzed one of the world's most important grain export routes. In recent months, the Russian army has intensified its attacks on Ukrainian ports, grain terminals and transport hubs, while Ukraine has responded by targeting Russian ports, cargo ships and logistics facilities. The result: more than 97 percent of Russian and Ukrainian

The Italian governmenthas banned the wearing of the burqa and niqab, which fully cover the face, in schools by law, while also capping at thirty percent the proportion of students in any given class who lack adequate proficiency in Italian.

Donald Trump would help his allies with yet another brilliant idea: the American president supports a 90-day ban on U.S. diesel exports. The move could lower American fuel prices in the short term ahead of the November midterm elections, but it could trigger a historic price surge in Europe. According to a French analyst, quoted the price of diesel per liter could rise to as much as 3.90 euros, or

Ella Pamfilova, chairwoman of the Russian Central Election Commission, received a 237-square-meter apartment in Moscow free of charge from the state, less than three months after Vladimir Putin, according to official results, won the 2024 presidential election with 87.28 percent of the vote. The apartment's value is estimated at 200 million rubles, or about $2.35 million.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has admitted that his government has considered the extreme risk of U.S. military action, after Donald Trump repeatedly spoke of annexing Canada and turning it into the 51st American state. The U.S. president's seemingly outlandish threats are thus no longer confined to social media, but have now appeared in the official risk assessment of a country that is supp

While Viktor Orbán and Andrej Babiš campaigned against Ukrainian agricultural imports, companies linked to their business circles bought tens of millions of dollars' worth of Ukrainian grain and oilseeds. Two investigative articles by the Romanian RISE Project show how this trade intertwined Agrofert, founded by Babiš, the Hungarian Hodler Group, UBM and several Romanian companies, and how firms n

Nicușor Dan has indeed practically ruled out early elections. In legal terms, of course, he could not declare that they will never happen under any circumstances, but politically he could hardly have sent a clearer message to the parliamentary survival class: relax, nobody needs to go back to the voters, just go ahead and quietly bring down Siegfried Mureșan.