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‘At What Point Does This Cross a Line Into International Criminality?’
The Trump administration continues undeterred in its campaign to kill alleged drug traffickers in international waters near Central and South America despite an emerging consensus among legal experts who say that the effort is illegal. As of this...
    
  Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet President Donald Trump in Hungary despite ICC arrest warrant for the Russian president
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Vladimir Putin is expected to travel to Hungary soon for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on ending the war in Ukraine – despite the Russian leader facing an International Criminal Court arrest warrant. Putin is...
    
  Jerusalem Church leaders welcome Gaza ceasefire
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 17, 2025 / 06:00 am Here is a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that you might have missed: Jerusalem church leaders welcome Gaza ceasefire The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem has...
    
  'Caused great harm': Church of Norway apologises to gay community
Like a number of other religions, the Church of Norway -- which has 3.4 million members, representing over 60 percent of the Norwegian population -- long refused to allow gays to become pastors or marry in the church. "The Church of Norway has...
    
  Orban calls with Putin ahead of Trump summit in Budapest
Editor's note: The story is being updated. Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Oct. 17, without providing details. The phone call follows an...
Vietnam, Hungary step up parliamentary diplomacy
AKP Phnom Penh, 17 October, 2025 -- The upcoming official visit to Vietnam by Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly László Kövér from October 18 – 22 not only demonstrates the mutual respect between the two nations but also reaffirms the...
    
  Kyrgyzstan, Hungary Sign 2026-2028 Co-Op Roadmap At Strategic Council Meeting
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, October 17. Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubayev and Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó signed a Protocol and Roadmap for Bilateral Cooperation between the...
    
  Hungary’s Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Stockholm (AFP) — The Nobel Prize in Literature was on Thursday awarded to...
    
  Budapest Welcomes Future Technical Professionals
The Hungarian Electrotechnical Association (MEE) is organizing the 10th edition of its "What's your career path?" technical career choice festival series, which has helped more than 75,000 young people find their way in the technical world over...
    
  Did Tomahawk missile threat push Putin to ring Trump? US, Russian Presidents to meet in Budapest
US President Donald Trump has revealed that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to meet in Budapest, Hungary, for discussions aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. The announcement followed what Trump described as a “lengthy and...
    
  Putin is expected to meet Trump in Hungary despite ICC arrest warrant for the Russian president
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Vladimir Putin is expected to travel to Hungary soon for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on ending the war in Ukraine — despite the Russian leader facing an International Criminal Court arrest warrant. Putin is...
    
  Trump holds ‘very productive’ call with Putin; both decide to meet in Hungary. Why this hurts Ukraine
Has Donald Trump just made another pivot on the Russia-Ukraine war? The US president announced that he would meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Hungary after a “very productive” call on Thursday (October 16). This has raised questions if America...
    
  'Fantastic News': US - Russia Summit in Budapest
"It is fantastic news that US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have spoken again, and even more fantastic that they will soon meet in Budapest," Peter Szijártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on...
    
  We Are Utterly Reliant on Immigrant Workers – But Who Cares About Reality?
Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features The young woman who attended the interview had brown hair, her face permanently anxious. Her name was...
    
  ‘Education Show 21’ kicks off at Expo Centre Sharjah
Organised by Expo Sharjah with the support of the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and in strategic partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR), this year's edition brings together more than...
    
  Putin Plans to Meet Trump in Budapest. How Will He Get There?
“Next time in Moscow?” President Vladimir Putin asked in English, turning to U.S. counterpart Donald Trump as the two leaders addressed a room of officials and reporters after their August summit in Alaska. Instead, the two leaders have agreed to...
    
  Hungarian Teachers Report Rising Satisfaction and Greater Autonomy, OECD TALIS Survey Shows
Hungarian teachers are reporting higher job satisfaction, greater professional independence, and stronger institutional support than before, according to the 2024 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Teaching and Learning...
    
  'Milestone Finding': Research Shows Uralian Origins of 10th Century Hungarians
Genetic matches have shown that some Hungarians living in the 10th century had Uralian origins, research led by the Eotvos Loránd University Research Centre for the Humanities (ELTE RCH) shows. In the "milestone study" published in The Cell...
    
  Genetic Research Shows Uralian Origins of 10th Century Hungarians
In the “milestone study” published in The Cell journal, ELTE RCH’s Institute for Archaeogenomics analyzed 120 genomes from western Siberia to the River Volga region, the university said in a statement. Results have “tightly link[ed] the Magyars to...
Trump: We will meet with Putin in Hungary
US President Donald Trump will meet with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Hungary. Trump wrote about this after a phone conversation with Putin. Trump did not name a date, but said they would meet to see if the war between Russia and Ukraine could...