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The upcoming vote is a standoff between historical memory and the promise of comfortable life in the Western European fold By Ksenia Smertina, associate professor at HSE University, expert at the Russian International Affairs Council on Eastern and Central EuropeViktor Orban will most likely win the upcoming parliamentary elections in Hungary on April 12; however, for the ruling party, this will be an extremely difficult and hard-fought victory.The issue is not the loss of charisma by the bright and skillful long-standing leader of Fidesz, nor even the 25% inflation the country experienced in 2023, but rather a shift in the…
Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” former Secretary of State John Kerry said President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iran would be a war crime. Host Jen Psaki said, “Before the cease fire was announced this week. Donald Trump said, I know you saw this. A whole civilization will die tonight. It is language. I don’t think anyone has ever heard from a U.S. president publicly, privately, anyone in any position of power. It’s a pretty hard bell to unring. Given all of the roles you’ve played what did you think when you saw that?” Kerry said, “I was shocked, as…
NBC aired a snippet from an interview with Cuba’s figurehead “President” Miguel Díaz-Canel on Thursday night in which he claimed that he will not resign amid calls from the United States for him to step down and for the rogue communist regime to reach a deal with the U.S. Díaz-Canel spoke with NBC News’s “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker in Havana on Thursday, marking the first time NBC has interviewed a Castro regime official since its 1959 interview with late communist dictator Fidel Castro, and the first time the figurehead “President” has spoken with an American broadcast network. NBC…
President Donald Trump used his Truth Social account on Thursday night to broadcast the brutal public murder of a woman by an illegal migrant welcomed by President Joe Biden and his border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas. “The video of her brutal slaying is one of the most vicious things you will ever see,” Trump wrote, adding: This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, “Temporary Protective Status,” a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way. This one…
The government says such data “is not necessary” for a system that would rely on “biometric authentication” The UK’s proposed digital ID scheme has drawn criticism for not recording whether a person is male or female – traditionally a core identifier alongside name and age – after the government deemed it “not necessary” for identification.The scheme, unveiled by Prime Minister Keir Starmer last year, has been pitched as a secure, free digital credential stored on smartphones to replace physical documents for identity checks. Initially planned as mandatory, it was made optional amid backlash and a petition with nearly 3 million…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Wednesday that Ukrainian anti-drone personnel were deployed to the Middle East nations attacked by Iran during Operation Epic Fury and were able to counter Iran’s Shahed drones with their own interceptor technology. “We sent our military experts to the Middle East, including experts in interceptor drones and experts in electronic warfare, and to some countries we demonstrated how to work with interceptors,” Zelensky said in a post on the Telegram messaging platform. “Did we destroy Iranian Shaheds? Yes, we did. Did we destroy them in just one country? No, in several. And this, in…
During part of an interview with CNN aired on Thursday’s broadcast of “The Story Is,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said that he doesn’t think the large hospice fraud issue continuing years after the problem became known is “a failure. I think it’s a sign of the scope and scale of the problem.” After Bonta cited the moratorium on hospice licenses that has been in place since 2022, host Elex Michaelson asked, “Because there was so much fraud, they said, we’ve got to stop the licensing?” Bonta answered, “Oh yeah, there was a state audit, there was legislative attention…
The Israelis will do whatever they can to reignite the war, Seyed Mohammad Marandi has told RT India The Middle East ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz are based on extremely shaky ground, Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi has said, adding that Israel will do everything it can to reignite war in the region.Speaking to RT India on Thursday, Marandi, a political analyst and professor at the University of Tehran, said US President Donald Trump has been forced to accept Iran’s framework for negotiations. “But right now there is a spoiler, and that is [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu,”…
A 71-year-old female passenger was arrested and placed on a no-fly list after she allegedly slapped a flight attendant during a flight from Japan to Taiwan. Video made its way to social media this week of the alleged April 3 assault, captured as the four-and-a-half-hour flight from Fukushima, Japan, to Taipei, Taiwan, was making its descent. As flight IT753 prepared for its landing, the pilot instructed passengers to remain seated with their seatbelts fastened, various news outlets reported. The passenger, identified by her surname, Zhang, chose to ignore the advisory and stand up in the aisle so she could put…
During part of an interview with CNN aired on Thursday’s broadcast of “The Story Is,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said that “there is a sort of locus of activity in L.A. County” for hospice fraud, but California getting lots of attention on the subject is “political weaponization.” Bonta said, “Hospice fraud is a significant problem. It’s not just in California, but there is a sort of locus of activity in L.A. County.” Host Elex Michaelson then asked, “Why is that?” Bonta answered, “I don’t know. It’s — crime does have certain places where there are hotspots, but I…