A Moroccan migrant who entered Ceuta during the mass invasion was reportedly arrested over the alleged street rape of a ‘young Moroccan woman’. While local media reports contradict one another over the case, a pattern of sexual violence is already clear in the Spanish enclave, with courts proceeding in at least six rape cases involving three Moroccan suspects and minor victims.

Kristóf Milák led Hungary’s best night of the European Aquatics Championships on Thursday, first breaking the European record to win the 100m butterfly and then delivering a 46.29 anchor split in a historic 4x100m freestyle relay triumph. Hungary took its first European title in the event, already securing three gold medals during the tournament so far.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s military helicopter flight over Paks has triggered accusations of political propaganda and hypocrisy after he mocked Viktor Orbán for similar trips only months ago. The controversy comes as recent polling shows Tisza at 49 per cent among all adults, its first drop below 50 per cent since the election and its second consecutive month of declining support.

Hubert Kós added the one major 200m backstroke title missing from his collection on Wednesday, winning European gold in Paris to become the reigning European, world and Olympic champion. One day before the final, he had come within 0.38 seconds of breaking Aaron Peirsol’s 2009 world record, prompting Michael Phelps to praise him online.

The Geneva Consensus Declaration Secretariat has returned to Washington after three and a half years in Budapest, with Robert F Kennedy Jr and Marco Rubio publicly thanking Hungary for its stewardship. Since 2022, Viktor Orbán’s government has kept the coalition alive after the US withdrew under Joe Biden and Brazil later abandoned it under Lula, preserving the initiative until Trump’s return.

Karoline Leavitt will leave her post as White House press secretary at the end of August, weeks after returning from maternity leave, but will remain close to Donald Trump as an outside adviser. The 28-year-old, the youngest press secretary in US history, is expected to shift back into campaign mode as Republicans prepare for a difficult November midterm fight.

Hungary is preparing to sink two 80-metre barges in the Danube to raise water levels around the Paks nuclear plant as the river falls back towards critical lows. The emergency measure comes just days after Prime Minister Péter Magyar said the immediate danger had passed, while work also begins on a permanent riverbed sill intended to secure cooling water for the plant.

Hungary’s state development bank withdrew more than €170 million in EU funding from a company controlled by Lőrinc Mészáros, a businessman close to Viktor Orbán, just four days after approving it, citing transparency rules. OPUS TITÁSZ is challenging the reversal, while PM Péter Magyar, who has already named Mészáros as a likely target of his cabinet’s anti-corruption push, welcomed the move.

The 230 migrants packed onto a record-breaking mega-dinghy show how radically Channel migration has changed: fewer boats are getting through, but each carries far more people and launch areas now stretch into Belgium. Behind the crossings is an increasingly professional industry, largely run by Iraqi–Kurdish networks, moving Chinese-made equipment through Türkiye and Germany to northern France.

A 26-year-old Algerian illegal immigrant jailed over a brutal street beating in Valencia has now been accused of raping a homeless woman on the two preceding days, making it a violent rampage lasting three days. Spanish media report that he had been detained 18 times since entering Spain illegally in 2020 and was subject to a final deportation order that was never enforced.