Donald Trump recounted how he tried to persuade Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, to finally give the Atlantic Ocean a name worthy of it too — preferably his own, or at least America's — because apparently there are still too many labels on the world map that don't make people think of the American president. According to the story he told at a campaign rally in South Carolina on October 21, he persona

Hitler's former Eagle's Nest, which survived the Second World War, the bombings and eight decades of tourist crowds, went up in flames on the evening of Friday, October 23. Around two hundred people fought the fire at the Kehlsteinhaus, which towers over Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, and police detained a 33-year-old German man that same night, because according to the Bavarian public broadcaster BR24

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared on Friday that the “dormant organizations” of the Confucius Institutes operating at American universities constitute a national security threat, and announced that the Pentagon had added them to the list of institutions endangering US national security. According to reports by AFP and Reuters, Hegseth said in a video posted on social media that although C

U.S. First Lady Melania Trump has secured a local ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the city of Oleshky, occupied by Russian troops, where the population has been starving for months. According to a White House statement released on Friday, the truce is to take effect on October 29, though Russian Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov later announced that Russian forces would already obser

British fighter jets joined a French Air Force exercise practicing a nuclear strike for the first time, held on October 20–21 in the Mediterranean region – the British and French defense ministries announced on Friday. During the exercise, codenamed Rummy, French Rafale fighters taking off from the Saint-Dizier air base were escorted by Typhoons of the British Royal Air Force, and no actual nuclea

American energy was promised, but according to the company's former CEO, Russian money and Russian control actually lie behind a multibillion-dollar Alaskan gas project — a plan that even made it to the negotiating table between Washington and Moscow. The Polar Train LNG affair ties together business threads leading to the Trump family, sanctions against Russia, and the energy deals from which the

And so we celebrated October 23, 2026, the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1956 Revolution and War of Independence, and perhaps never before has there been such cognitive dissonance in Hungarian society on this notable day, because just as we finally breathe a sigh of relief that public discourse is no longer dominated by the self-abandoning, Russia-fawning narrative of the traitor Balázs

Health Minister Alexandru Rogobete would introduce progressively increasing on-call pay for doctors, and has also listed securing the supply of flu vaccines among the most urgent tasks of his mandate. Speaking on Antena 3's Wednesday evening program on October 21, he said that after the budget adjustment, fairly paying for on-call shifts is one of the most important things to address.

Just a few days ago, rumors were still swirling that he had kicked the bucket, keeled over, choked on the red star — well, Kim is back, and he hasn't disappointed: he's playing war games again. This time Kim Jong-un ordered his army to train itself into the world's strongest armed force and to form a militarily and technically prepared elite unit within every one of its companies. Meanwhile, South

The community fact-checking system of the X social media platform, owned by Elon Musk, failed to flag more than 90 percent of the false claims circulating about the November 3 U.S. midterm election, and the same is true of Musk's own posts. This is the finding of a study published Wednesday by NewsGuard, an organization that rates the reliability of news sources.

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) announced on Friday that it does not support calculating the tax on residential properties based on market value, which the Bolojan government had scheduled for January 1, 2027, and which, according to the party, could have meant a tax up to twenty-seven times higher than the current one. However, the statement does not make clear whether the Social Democrats woul

Meta has postponed until November 20 the introduction of its new commercial terms, after international press organizations, publishers and advertising trade associations jointly protested against a provision that they say would allow the tech giant to automatically harvest the content of websites. At first glance, the dispute concerns fine print in a contract, but in reality it is about whether a

According to Donald Trump, Elon Musk restored the Ukrainian army's satellite access, yet Ukrainian soldiers and officials were still reporting restrictions, dropped connections and hampered drone operations on October 23. The Wall Street Journal, citing American officials, reported that the president personally asked Musk to lift the restrictions, while Trump himself first dodged questions about t

The benchmark price of European natural gas has risen to a level not seen since December 2022, as the Middle East conflict continues to hamper the shipment of Qatari liquefied natural gas, and cooler weather has already forced several countries to draw on stored reserves. The next-month futures contract for the Dutch TTF gas hub opened around three percent higher on Friday, October 23, trading at

The Romanian government decided, in a decision issued on Friday, to accept the European Commission's donation of 1.1 million doses of vaccine against peste des petits ruminants and sheep and goat pox. These diseases have been ravaging Romania's sheep and goat population for months, and because of them the country has so far been unable to export live animals. The donation consists of 300,000 doses

Fidesz supporters substituted flag-escorting for the Peace March that other Fidesz members are trying to deny ever happened, but at least we found out that Zsolt Bayer once again refuses to talk to 444.

If we held a competition for who humiliates Hungarians more over '56, László Toroczkai, chairman of Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland), and Balázs Orbán, the archetypal Arrow Cross–Bolshevik ideological commissar, would surely be tied for first place — though perhaps Toroczkai's sin is a bit greater, since this is exactly what we didn't expect from him.

On Thursday, Romania's Constitutional Court (CCR) ruled by a vote of five to four that a constitutional legal conflict exists between parliament and the government, because the already-ousted cabinet of Ilie Bolojan had adopted an emergency government ordinance on the SAFE program. SAFE is the EU loan program through which Romania can access several billion euros, to be spent not only on weapons a

Google's Finnish deforestation scandal has taken a new turn, as the Finnish licensing and supervisory authority (LVV) announced on October 22 that it has launched a police investigation into the data center planned for Muhos, and that changes indicating acidification have been detected in the area's waters. At the company's two sites in northern Finland, forest was cleared on a total of more than

In a statement issued Thursday evening, the National Liberal Party (PNL) accused the Social Democratic Party (PSD) of launching a disinformation campaign around Eurostat data on Romania's budget deficit, saying it is "shamelessly lying" by suggesting that the deficit grew under the Bolojan government.