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A 14-year-old armed with five guns opened fire at a Turkish school on Wednesday, killing nine people, wounding 13 and sparking scenes of mayhem as students jumped out of windows to escape. The attack in the southern province of Kahramanmaras province was Turkey’s second such incident in as many days, shocking a country where school shootings are a rare occurrence. Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci confirmed nine deaths, with 13 wounded — six in intensive care, three of them in a critical condition. State-run broadcaster, TRT, identified the latest shooter as Isa Aras Mersinli and said his father was detained for…
“You only need to look at Hungary, look at what’s happened to Orbán, to Fidesz. I think that if you’re unable to deliver growth, whatever your ideology is, it will lose,” she added. Badenoch’s Conservative Party slumped to its worst-ever result in the 2024 U.K. general election after 14 years in power, and is struggling to regain ground as Nigel Farage’s populist right-wing Reform UK surges in the polls. Vincenzo Alex But Badenoch said the rise of Magyar, who she described as “very much of the right, in some places even tougher,” shows traditional center-right economics and ideology is “reasserting…
Published on 15/04/2026 – 20:25 GMT+2 Sweden thwarted a pro-Russian cyberattack on a thermal power plant in mid-2025, the government said on Wednesday, saying the group behind it was linked to Russian intelligence. There were no serious consequences, Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said. “The Swedish Security Service handled the case and was able to identify the actor behind it, which has ties to Russian intelligence and security services,” Bohlin told reporters. Bohlin told the AFP news agency that the attack failed “because the security systems in place worked.” Without going into detail, he said the aim of the operation…
In a separate appearance on Kossuth state radio, he declared “every Hungarian deserves a public service media that broadcasts the truth.” As a result of the government’s dominant role in the media, many Hungarians — especially those in the country’s rural areas — only heard or saw coverage curated by the ruling Fidesz party. Magyar himself avoided speaking to state-controlled outlets ahead of the Hungarian election, which he won on Sunday. “After a year and a half, I am back in the ‘public’ television studio,” Magyar wrote in a post on X. “We have just witnessed the last days of…
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BRUSSELS ― Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will not attend the informal meeting of the European Council in Cyprus next week, an EU official told POLITICO. Orbán suffered a crushing loss in Sunday’s general election that put an end to his 16-year premiership. He was scheduled to attend the two-day gathering on April 23 -24, during which national leaders are set to discuss the crisis in the Middle East and the bloc’s next seven-year budget. The nationalist-populist leader remains Hungary’s caretaker prime minister until his rival, Péter Magyar, takes power in May.
About 120,000 drones pledged by the UK, alongside additional funding for PURL and the Czech ammunition initiative, were announced at a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group in Berlin on Wednesday. The 34th gathering of the group took place at Germany’s defence ministry, co-hosted by the German defence minister, Boris Pistorius, and his British counterpart, John Healey. Ukraine’s defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, and NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, attended in person, while other members joined virtually. US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, reportedly skipped the meeting, sending the Pentagon’s policy chief, Elbridge Colby, in his place. Both Pistorius and Healey…
The Burj Al Arab has long been an iconic part of the Dubai skyline. The sail-shaped building is everywhere, from snow globes to fridge magnets, and the only other burj (aka tower) that rivals its fame is the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. Now the ultra-luxury hotel is set to close for the first time in more than a quarter of a century for an 18-month restoration project. The 198-suite hotel, which is owned by the Dubai-based hotel chain Jumeirah, is known for its opulence, with 86,500 hand-fixed Swarovski crystals, over 30 types of Statuario marble, and around 1,790…
It added that global government debt rose to nearly 94 percent of gross domestic product last year and is now on course to top 100 percent by 2029, due largely to yawning deficits in the U.S., China and Japan. The U.S., it noted, “is running a general government deficit of 7 to 8 percent of GDP despite operating near full capacity, with no debt consolidation plan in sight,” while current fiscal policy, dictated by President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” last year, has put debt on course to hit 142 percent of GDP by 2031. The IMF’s Fiscal Affairs…
Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will not attend next week’s informal summit of European Union leaders, according to several EU officials. Orbán, who was decisively defeated in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, is expected to remain in office until opposition leader Péter Magyar, who won by a landslide, takes office sometime in May. Officials familiar with the preparations told Euronews they no longer expect Orbán to participate in the gathering, which will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus. The tradition in Brussels dictates that departing leaders are paid homage by their peers and given a goodbye token when they attend their last…