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The Orban-era ban on Ukrainian food imports was introduced in 2023 to protect Hungarian farmers from cheap Ukrainian imports flooding the markets Hungary has restored a ban on Ukrainian food imports after the new government “accidentally” allowed the restrictions to lapse.The ban, covering around 20 categories of agricultural goods, was introduced in 2023 after former Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government declared an emergency over the economic fallout of the Ukraine conflict.Budapest argued that cheap Ukrainian imports flooded EU border markets after Brussels lifted tariffs, undercutting Hungarian farmers and destabilizing the agriculture sector.While transit shipments were allowed, imports for the Hungarian…

ANKARA (AP) – Police stormed the offices of Turkey’s main opposition CHP party on Sunday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at party supporters and officials who had been holed up inside for three days. It was a violent end to a standoff between members of the Republican Peoples’ Party, or CHP, and a leadership team appointed by an appeals court. Footage taken by local media Sunday in the courtyard and inside the building showed clouds of tear gas as riot police stormed through the premises, before journalists were removed by the police. Supporters initially attempted to resist the police…

A major Pizza Hut franchisee has filed a lawsuit against the restaurant chain seeking $100 million in damages, claiming that a mandated AI system for kitchen management has caused significant operational failures and financial losses across its restaurant locations. The Register reports that Chaac Pizza Northeast, which operates approximately 111 Pizza Hut locations across New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania, filed a complaint in the Business Court of Texas earlier this month. The lawsuit accuses Pizza Hut of breaching its franchise agreement by forcing Chaac to adopt restaurant management AI from Dragontail, a provider of AI-powered food delivery…

Friday on MS NOW’s “The Beat,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said the Department of Justice’s so-called anti-weaponization fund was the “crossing of the Rubicon for some Republicans.” Co-host Antonia Hylton said, “I want your take on what’s happened in the nation’s Capital over the last several days, Republicans, seemingly in a sort of open revolt, unable to get Trump’s desired, DHS additional money through because of this so-called old slush fund and the just outrage that it has caused across the country. And I wonder for you, what you see is the moment where the dam sort of broke politically or…

In a live debate over whether America should bomb Iran, one side brought facts and history; the other brought interruptions, patronizing lectures, and recycled empire talking points. On Tuesday, I participated in a debate on whether the US should be bombing Iran with Naomi Wolf—a feminist author, journalist, former Rhodes Scholar, and CEO of Daily Clout. To say that the interaction was a disappointment is putting it mildly. The tactics she employed are tried-and-true methods of the old dying legacy media. Her attempts to use logical fallacies and ad hominem attacks against me revealed that she was either ill-prepared for the discussion or…

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott earned a huge round of applause from graduates after ripping up a generic commencement speech scripted by generative artificial intelligence at the Kansas City Art Institute on May 16. Scott started his speech reading from his AI-created script which congratulated students on reaching their “threshold of a new beginning,” and telling them their “power is limitless.” But then he paused, according to Business Insider. “Sounds kind of clichéd, right? Doesn’t sound authentic, does it? Sounds like you’ve heard it before, right? It’s because it’s AI,” he told the graduating class before him. Then he ripped the…

Hollywood director Christopher Nolan is being ripped by a Greek-interest publication for not having any Greek actors in his adaptation of The Odyssey. Nolan’s film is based on the 2,800-year-old epic poem told by Homer, which follows the fantastic journey of the heroic king of Ithaca, Odysseus. It is one of the oldest known works of literature in history and was composed by a Greek man — in Greek, for his fellow Greeks. Yet Nolan’s film, toasted by Hollywood access media for its “diversity,” doesn’t have any Greeks in it at all. And the Greek City Times — an Australia-based news site…

Friday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called President Donald Trump the “grifter-in-chief.” Cooper asked, “Are you surprised by some of the Republicans pushing back on this fund?” Blumenthal said, “Not really, Anderson, because this kind of graft and it really is graft on a scale that is unprecedented in our history. We had scandals with Harding and Grant and Nixon, but none of them involved the scale and scope, the audacity and arrogance of this graft.” Cooper asked, “And you see this fund as part of graft, as part of corruption?” Blumenthal said, “It is part of a through…

Tehran has said the sides were moving closer to a “convergence of views,” but expressed concerns about a U-turn by Washington The US and Iran are poised to sign a deal which will prolong the ceasefire another 60 days, during which the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened and restrictions on oil trade against Tehran lifted, Axios has reported, citing American officials. In the meantime, the sides will try to reach a final deal to end the conflict, it added.US President Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that the memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been “largely negotiated” and is currently being…

On Friday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” Trump critic Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed the “bottom is falling out” for President Donald Trump in his ability to control Republican lawmakers. Raskin said, “There are over a dozen Republicans who have spoken out about this, and I’m starting to think that the bottom is falling out for Donald Trump in terms of his ability to micromanage and control everybody in the Republican caucus. I don’t think this can stand. I think the public clamor against it and the rapidly growing opposition within Congress means that we’re going to be able to stop it,…