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…

Netanyahu Arrives in Hungary, Finding a Rare Welcome in Europe
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Netanyahu Arrives in Hungary, Finding a Rare Welcome in Europe

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Thursday began a visit to Hungary, confident that Europe’s self-declared bastion of “illiberal democracy” would ignore an arrest warrant issued against him in November by the International Criminal Court. The visit is Mr. Netanyahu’s first to…

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…

Who Is Marc Fogel? The American Teacher Caught in a Global Power Struggle.
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Who Is Marc Fogel? The American Teacher Caught in a Global Power Struggle.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Marc Fogel had traveled readily to and from Russia many times before his fateful last return to the country in August 2021. He had taught history for almost a decade, mostly to the children of diplomats, at the Anglo-American School in Moscow. But…

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…

Foreign Strongmen Cheer as Musk Dismantles U.S. Aid Agency
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Foreign Strongmen Cheer as Musk Dismantles U.S. Aid Agency

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Humanitarian initiatives can enhance American “soft power,” supporters say, which can buy the United States good will and leverage in countries across the world for a comparatively small fraction of federal spending. In 2023, U.S.A.I.D. funding represented .07 percent of the U.S. federal…

‘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….