In the Battle for Next Pope, Cardinal Erdö Emerges as a Conservative Favorite
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In the Battle for Next Pope, Cardinal Erdö Emerges as a Conservative Favorite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When more than a million refugees and economic migrants poured into Europe a decade ago, Pope Francis urged compassion and, in a display of empathy and support, washed the feet of 12 asylum seekers at an Italian reception center. Cardinal Peter Erdo, the…

Leaders Flex Muscles Against International Criminal Court
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Leaders Flex Muscles Against International Criminal Court

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines There aren’t a lot of countries Israel’s prime minister can visit without risking arrest. Which makes the red-carpet treatment Benjamin Netanyahu received in Hungary — Europe’s only proud “illiberal democracy” — all the more noteworthy. Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, invited Mr. Netanyahu…

Hungary Announces ICC Withdrawal as Netanyahu Visits
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Hungary Announces ICC Withdrawal as Netanyahu Visits

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Hungary said on Thursday that it would pull out of the International Criminal Court, announcing its decision just hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel arrived there for a visit despite facing an international arrest warrant. The government of Prime Minister Viktor…

Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say
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Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his…

Viktor Orban Is a Conservative Lodestar. Now He Wants to Fix the Price of Eggs.
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Viktor Orban Is a Conservative Lodestar. Now He Wants to Fix the Price of Eggs.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary pioneered many of the themes dear to conservatives in the United States, railing for years against “migration insanity,” “the woke virus” and “gender madness.” Now Mr. Orban is engaged in an effort that veers away from the…

Europe Is Left with Hard Choices as Trump Sours on Ukraine
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Europe Is Left with Hard Choices as Trump Sours on Ukraine

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines European leaders have dealt with President Trump’s return to office by trying to keep him cooperating on Ukraine while pushing to ramp up their own defense spending so they are less reliant on an increasingly fickle America. But Friday’s meeting in the Oval…

Supreme Court Rejects Holocaust Survivors’ Suit Against Hungary
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Supreme Court Rejects Holocaust Survivors’ Suit Against Hungary

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously ruled against a group of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, saying they could not sue Hungary in the United States to recover the proceeds of property stolen by its state-owned railway. The company robbed hundreds of thousands…

Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’
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Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Since taking office, President Trump has threatened European countries’ security and economies, angled to take control of Greenland, and promised to “definitely” slap the nations with tariffs. Even parties that would seem to be his natural allies are nervous. Some have quietly tiptoed…

‘The Interview’: Ambassador David Pressman Is Alarmed by What He Has Seen
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‘The Interview’: Ambassador David Pressman Is Alarmed by What He Has Seen

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When you say that they were trying to make you seem weird or gross, what were these articles saying? There’s a whole strand of reporting that’s suggestive that I’m a pedophile, which is a pretty extraordinary thing. I’m a father of two children….

Opinion | Europe Wasn’t Built to Be Like This
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Opinion | Europe Wasn’t Built to Be Like This

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When I crossed a bridge spanning the Rhine last year, a checkpoint blocked the route between France and Germany, on the Pont de l’Europe. Borders are closing in Europe, for reasons ranging from “ongoing crises in Eastern Europe and the Middle East” to…