CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a secret visit to Moscow on Tuesday, becoming the first American intelligence chief to travel there since William Burns warned the Kremlin against invading Ukraine in November 2021. With US intelligence now focused on possible Russian provocations against NATO’s eastern flank, the trip has revived speculation that Ratcliffe carried a similar warning.

The US Supreme Court has, in part, lifted the nationwide injunction a Circuit Court judge imposed on President Trump’s executive order requiring the Department of Homeland Security to create an eligible voters’ list for each state and the US Postal Service to deliver mail-in ballots only to residents on that list.

Germany’s establishment celebrated Péter Magyar’s defeat of Viktor Orbán as a lesson in how to beat right-wing populism. Four months later, the comparison looks less comfortable: AfD candidate Ulrich Siegmund is using a similar campaign strategy, combining a strong rural presence with social-media dominance, while the establishment repeats Fidesz’s grave strategic mistakes.

‘Abu Safieh’s supporters dispute the allegations, maintaining that he is a medical professional and that his detention is unjustified. But the distinction is crucial: the person being celebrated at the Budapest demonstration is…an individual whom Israel identifies as a senior Hamas figure and whose hospital…was used by the terrorist organization for military purposes.’

Budapest has drawn up plans to renovate Népliget, beginning with the construction of an irrigation system. Mayor Gergely Karácsony said the city was seeking the government’s cooperation in redeveloping the park.

Footage of a group of men attacking a person inside an apartment complex in Vilvoorde, Belgium, is being circulated on the social media site X. Multiple accounts, including that of a sitting Belgian MP, claim that the attack was perpetrated by migrants against an elderly white man.