The US has reportedly advised Netanyahu not to attack Iran The US has denied giving Israel the green light to move against the Gaza city of Rafah instead of attacking Iran, as a Qatari outlet reported Thursday citing an anonymous Egyptian official. Israel has said it would respond to Saturday’s missile and drone attack by…
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Germany arrests two alleged saboteurs ‘working for Russia’
The Russian embassy has dismissed the case as a “blatant provocation” Two men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning to sabotage local military infrastructure, including US bases, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Thursday. Authorities claim to have linked at least one of the suspects to Russia’s security services. Warrants for the…
Love Jihad: Neha Hiremath Fatally Stabbed by College Peer Fayaz for Rebuffing Advances, Arrest Follows (Video)
Neha Hiremath, daughter of Congress Corporator Niranjan Hiremath, was brutally attacked at B V Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology in Hubballi, India. The 24-year-old Hindu MCA student was stabbed to death by Fayaz, a fellow student at the college. Fayaz, reportedly Muslim and hailing from Savadatti in the Belagavi district, had been relentlessly pressuring…
US reimposes Venezuela sanctions
A six-month reprieve has been ended due to concerns surrounding upcoming presidential elections in the South American country The US has reinstated sanctions on Venezuela’s crucial energy industry, over what Washington describes as Caracas’ failure to adhere to democratic principles, as the nation prepares for presidential elections. President Joe Biden’s administration said on Wednesday it…
Fund Ukraine? Go fight there, US congresswoman says
Marjorie Taylor Greene has tried to attach conditions for American aid to Kiev Any member of the US House of Representatives who votes for sending $60 billion in aid to Kiev should be required to enlist in the Ukrainian military, according to an amendment proposed by a prominent Republican lawmaker. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia…
Defending Tradition: Viktor Orbán’s Crusade for a Europe Rooted in Christian Values (Video)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has stated continuously over the years that the main task of his government is to preserve Hungary’s security and Christian culture. There’s a historical perspective when it comes to #migration. What kind of country and what kind of life will our grandchildren inherit? I can’t imagine anything better than the chance…
Dmitry Trenin: The US is crawling away from Ukraine
Talk in about victory for Kiev has disappeared as Washington becomes a ‘back seat driver’ The Istanbul agreements – a tentative peace plan agreed between Russia and Ukraine in the spring of 2022 are being discussed again. However, as they were written, at the time, they are no longer relevant and are unlikely to be of…
White House opposes Palestinian statehood – leaked cables
The US is reportedly lobbying the UN to reject the regional authority’s membership bid, which would amount to its recognition The US government has been lobbying the UN Security Council nations to reject the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) application for full membership, according to The Intercept, citing leaked diplomatic cables. Earlier this month, the regional authority…
South American state asks to become NATO partner
Argentina has submitted a formal request to the US-led military bloc for ‘global partner’ status, Defense Minister Luis Petri says Argentina has officially asked NATO to accept it as a new “global partner,” the country’s Defense Minister Luis Petri announced on Thursday following a meeting with the US-led military bloc’s Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana….
Russians ‘undesirable’ at death camp commemoration events in Germany – Moscow
Berlin’s “provocative attack” is an attempt to distort the history of World War II, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Russia’s diplomatic mission in Berlin has received a notice that the presence of Russian officials at events in Germany marking the liberation of Nazi concentration camps is “undesirable,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday….
Revealing the Facts: A Brief History of the Tax System in Hungary
Hungarian Conservative has launched a ten-part series of articles on the past decade and a half of the Hungarian economy and society, titled ‘Revealing the Facts’. Rather than looking at a lot of different, isolated data, it is worth providing an overview, comparing, and analysing trends over time, in order to understand the details. As…
Israel has surpassed Hitler in committing crimes – Erdogan
The Turkish leader has accused the Jewish state of killing 14,000 children in Gaza Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Israel of outdoing Adolf Hitler by killing 14,000 children in Gaza. Speaking to a meeting of his Justice and Development (AK) Party legislators in the Turkish parliament, Erdogan said that the Palestinian cause has…
Happy Birthday to Pete Gogolak, the Hungarian Who Changed the NFL Forever
When we mention Hungarian football players making a lasting impact on the game, one would surely think of European football, or soccer, as they call it in the United States. We have the likes of Gyula Zsengellér, Ferenc Puskás, Nándor Hidegkuti, Gyula Grosics, or Flórián Albert—and Péter Gogolák, who left his mark on a different…
Is all-out war in the Middle East now inevitable?
A large-scale conflict is in nobody’s interests, but an Israeli retaliation to Iran is bound to happen. The question is, what will it be? From the night of Saturday, April 13, Iran directly attacked Israel from its territory for the first time using drones and missiles. In many Israeli cities, air-raid sirens sounded, and explosions…
“Everything for G******”: On the speech trial of Björn Höcke, whom German prosecutors accuse of speaking 3 forbidden words in 2021 & repeating 2 of them in 2023. He faces up to 3 years in prison.
Grab from a video of Björn Höcke’s 2021 speech in Merseburg, for which he is now facing criminal charges. Today, the leader of the Alternative für Deutschland faction in the Thuringian state parliament, Björn Höcke, appeared before the district court in Halle for the first day of his long-awaited speech trial. He stands accused of…
West fears Ukrainian front line could collapse soon – Bloomberg
Kiev’s forces are struggling to hold back the Russians due to delays in foreign aid and personnel shortages, the news outlet said The US and the EU are concerned that Russian forces may punch through the Ukrainian defensive lines in the coming weeks, people familiar with the matter have told Bloomberg. Russian troops continue to…
Russia asks United Nations to consider sanctioning Israel
The Ramadan ceasefire in Gaza was not implemented, Moscow’s envoy to the UN has said Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia has called on the United Nations to consider imposing sanctions on Israel over its non-compliance with obligatory resolutions passed by the Security Council. He noted that UNSC Resolution 2728 demanded a ceasefire…
Balázs Orbán’s Hussar Cut — A New Theoretical Framework
What is a hussar cut? By definition, it is a ‘quick, decisive, surprising and at the same time reckless move, an all-in endeavour, an initiative, an action’. It is also the title of Balázs Orbán’s recently published book, which bears the subtitle The Hungarian Strategy for Connectivity. The political director of the Prime Minister has…
US government finances ‘unsustainable’ – auditors
As much as 7% of federal spending could be fraud, according to a new report The US government could be losing between $233 billion and $521 billion to fraud each year, according to a report on a recent five-year period by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO). Issued this week, the study – the first…
Tehran could strike Israeli nuclear sites, general warns
An attack on Iranian facilities will trigger tit-for-tat retaliation, the IRGC officer in charge of their safety has said If Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities, Tehran could respond in kind, a senior officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday, according to local media. Tensions have escalated in the Middle East this…
Former Priest Charged with Multiple Instances of Sexual Abuse of Minors
In Kecskemét, Hungary, charges have been brought against a former priest for multiple instances of sexual abuse committed by taking advantage of his position of power, involving boys attending his religious education classes and the youth group he led. Spokesperson for the Bács-Kiskun County Prosecutor’s Office Marianna Négyessyné Bodó stated in a press release sent…
EU state to allow children to change gender
Sweden has lowered the age permitting citizens to identify as a different sex to 16 Sweden’s parliament on Wednesday passed a law lowering the minimum age to legally change gender from 18 to 16, as well as making the process easier. The step has been approved despite criticism from within the government coalition. The…
Ex-Soviet state beats US to TikTok ban – media
Kyrgyzstan has reportedly blocked access to the app due to concerns over its impact on children Kyrgyzstan has blocked the video-sharing platform TikTok over lax content regulations and concerns that the app may be detrimental to children’s mental health, local media reported on Wednesday. Bishkek’s Ministry of Digital Development requested that telecom operators restrict access…
African nation expels three French diplomats
Burkina Faso has accused the officials of carrying out subversive activities Burkina Faso’s military government has declared three French diplomats persona non grata, giving them 48 hours to leave the West African nation. The incident adds to major diplomatic setbacks Paris has suffered in the country in recent years. In a letter dated Tuesday and…
Australian tourist detained in India for tearing down pro-Palestine posters
A video of a Jewish woman arguing with Indians over anti-Israeli ‘propaganda’ has gone viral A Jewish woman from Australia was taken into police custody in the state of Kerala in southern India for tearing down posters supporting Palestine, Indian media have reported. A video of a heated exchange between a woman and the locals, who…
Ukrainian children ‘kidnapped’ by Moscow found in Germany
The revelation debunks Kiev’s “myths,” a Russian official accused of mass abductions has said Allegations by Kiev that Moscow has mass kidnapped Ukrainian children have been exposed as a lie after some of the purported victims were found in the EU, according to Russian children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova. She is among the officials to…
SWIFT must be ‘killed off’ – top Russian banker
Digital banking will create sovereignty in international settlements, VTB chief Andrey Kostin says Moving away from financial transactions conducted through Western payment systems including SWIFT are vital for Russia and its trading partners, the head of the country’s second-largest lender has said. Speaking on Thursday at the Data Fusion 2024 conference, VTB CEO Andrey Kostin…
Ukraine strikes hospital in Donbass, injuring eight – authorities
Kiev’s forces “deliberately” targeted a blood donation center in the town of Gorlovka, regional head Denis Pushilin has said Ukrainian troops have struck a hospital and blood donation center in the Donbass town of Gorlovka, the head of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, has said. Eight civilians including a child were injured in the…
Are the Tides Turning for Dominik Szoboszlai at Liverpool?
Dominik Szoboszlai really made an instant impact after signing for Liverpool in the summer. The English Premier League giant paid €70 million to the German RB Leipzig, making him the most expensive Hungarian football player ever. For the first twenty games in the Premier League, Szoboszlai had not missed a single game, and Liverpool was…
Biden warned Israel against attacking Israel
In his latest gaffe, the US leader described how he told the Jewish state not to attack the city of Haifa US President Joe Biden told an interviewer that he’d warned the Israeli government against attacking itself, in what appears to be the aging leader’s latest gaffe, and one that has again raised concerns over…
Zelensky’s people trying to extort me, Western investor claims to FT
Ukrainian authorities have accused a major online casino co-owned by entrepreneur Arnulf Damerau of tax evasion One of the largest private Western investors in Ukraine, an Anglo-German businessman, has told the Financial Times that senior Kiev officials, including some from the presidential office, are trying to extort money from him. Arnulf Damerau, who has invested…
Debt-distressed Nigeria sets ‘ambitious’ revenue target
The African nation plans to increase oil production to at least 2 million barrels per day, its finance minister has said Nigeria is aiming to increase revenues by 60% this year to help keep debt at sustainable levels and alleviate economic hardship, Finance Minister Wale Edun said on Wednesday, according to the Semafor Africa news…
Colombia wants to join BRICS
Brazil will promote its neighbor’s candidacy, according to a joint statement Colombia is seeking to become a full-fledged member of the BRICS group as soon as possible, and Brazil will promote its candidacy, according to a joint statement from the leaders of Brazil and Colombia, published after their meeting in Bogota on Tuesday. BRICS…
Bank of America issues $130 oil warning
A direct war between Israel and Iran could “substantially” drive prices up, the bank has said in a note cited by CNBC An all-out war between Israel and Iran could drive oil prices up by $30-$40 per barrel, Bank of America experts have told clients in a research note seen by CNBC. Tehran and West…
Strong India challenges ‘supremacy of the West’ – lawmaker
Lawyer and politician Mahesh Jethmalani suggests some world powers fear his country’s emergence as a major rival A “growing and strong India” is a challenge to the supremacy of the West, the renowned criminal lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani, who is also a member of parliament for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has told RT. “The…
Russia charges four Ukrainian colonels with mass murder
Kiev’s commanding officers have been indicted in absentia by a Moscow court Russia’s Investigative Committee has brought charges in absentia against four Colonels of the Ukrainian military, Khamovnichesky Court in Moscow has told TASS. The commanders of Kiev’s units are being accused of mass murder, it added. Khamovnichesky Court has received petitions for the arrest…
How Brussels Became a Cancel Culture-Infused Tolerance-Free Zone in Just a Few Days
An opinion piece by Frank Füredi, Executive Director of MCC Brussels, was published by POLITICO Brussels. It is unusual, as opinions that differ from the progressive mainstream rarely appear on the portal, which is the mouthpiece of the left. However, Emir Kir, the Mayor of Brussels’s Saint-Joone district, made a decision earlier this week that…
Judge dread: what is the fate of the law in a key African state?
A proposed housing levy has reopened a conflict between the government and judiciary that could lead to a breakdown of order in Kenya A confrontation has been unfolding in Kenya between the president and judiciary since last November, impacting significantly on the governance of the East African country. After 1963, when Kenya gained its independence…
Insurers claim ‘government’ could have sabotaged Nord Stream – Kommersant
Lloyd’s of London and Arch Insurance have reportedly refused to pay compensation following the destruction of the gas pipelines Insurance policies for the Nord Stream gas pipelines sabotaged in 2022 do not cover destruction or damage caused during military hostilities, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on Thursday, citing a claim filed at the High Court in…
ECB fires back at plans to seize Russian assets
The confiscation of Moscow’s frozen funds could undermine international order, the head of the European Central Bank warns US-backed proposals to seize frozen Russian assets could undermine the international order, European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde has cautioned. Her comments came during a meeting in Washington on Wednesday, where the G7 finance ministers and…
CNN Picks Budapest Metro Line 1 Among the Best in the World
The American cable news channel CNN is not one that you would expect to be overly generous with Hungary in their coverage. It is a bona fide leftist mainstream outlet, never shy about describing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary as an ‘authoritarian leader,’ as they did during the coverage of his meeting with former…
Hundreds kicked out of Paris squat ahead of Olympics (VIDEO)
Charities claim authorities are clearing out homeless people ahead of the Games this summer French police have carried out a large-scale eviction at the country’s biggest squat in Paris, just 100 days before the Olympic Games are due to start in the city, local media have reported. The squat, in an abandoned bus company…
Mayoral Candidate Alexandra Szentkirályi’s Seven-Point Plan for Budapest’s Future
Mayoral candidate of Fidesz–KDNP Alexandra Szentkirályi recently unveiled her vision for the city at a campaign event held at the Bálna Event Centre. In her speech, she articulated a seven-point plan aimed at revitalizing the Hungarian capital and freeing it from what she perceives as the influence of Ferenc Gyurcsány. ‘It’s time to put an…
India’s unemployment rate set to fall – report
The jobs market in the nation of 1.4 billion people is being transformed thanks to surging economic growth, the ORF think tank says India’s unemployment rate is expected to fall from 4.47% to 3.68% by 2028, a report by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) think tank has projected. The service sector will lead the way…
Russia surpassing EU in wheat supplies to North Africa – report
Moscow is said to have “captured” a significant market share in Algeria, one of the bloc’s top three supply destinations European Union wheat exports to North Africa fell by 25% in the first seven months of the 2023-2024 growing season, with Russian supplies dominating the region’s market, according to a report released by the United…
No more Russian language on air in three months – Kiev
Ukraine’s goal of eradicating bilingual media content has almost been achieved, the government has claimed Ukraine’s ban on using the Russian language in the media will take full effect three months from now, Kiev’s state language protection commissioner, Taras Kremin, has said. Since gaining independence, Ukraine has been a bilingual nation, with most citizens able…
The Prison of Technological Determinism — How Our Perception of Technology Contributes to the Mental Health Crisis
The internet, who could live without it? With 57 per cent of the world population using it on average for 6 hours and 42 minutes per day, it is hard to imagine a life without information technology. The Hungarian population in contrast uses the internet a lot less, with averaging 3 hours and 30 minutes….
Budapest Zoo Hosts Three-Day Festival Celebrating Mother Earth
From Friday to Sunday, the Earth Festival will take place at the Budapest Zoo, where visitors can enjoy feeding sessions, animal presentations, and animal training. Organized in celebration of Earth Day, the three-day festival offers a rich programme of activities and experiences related to environmental and nature conservation. With the first day of the Earth…
Russian troops advancing – Zelensky
The West’s failure to provide enough arms and money is the only reason Ukraine is suffering setbacks, the president has claimed A shortage of Western arms supplies and unkept promises by EU members have allowed Russia to advance on the battlefield, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky told senior European officials on Wednesday. Zelensky made the claims…
An Under-Recognized Factor of the Hungarian Housing Reality: Home Ownership
A recent opinion article on Hungarian Conservative analysed the difficulties young Hungarians encounter in terms of housing when starting their adult lives. In my article I would like to help readers form a more nuanced picture of the Hungarian housing reality, highlighting an often not-appreciated factor: the high percentage of home-owners in our country. Hungarian…
US bringing destabilizing weapons out of the shadows – Moscow
The deployment of American intermediate-range missiles in the Philippines is another blow to global stability, Russian ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov has said The US deployment of intermediate-range missiles in the Philippines is another step by Washington aimed at escalating the level of military confrontation in the Asia-Pacific, Russian ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov has…