Fidesz communications director Bertalan Havasi denied that Viktor Orbán would meet Donald Trump during his US visit, dismissing claims by MP Zsolt Németh. The contradictory statements came as Orbán attended the World Cup while Fidesz faced resignations, internal criticism, and what analysts increasingly described as the beginning of the party’s ‘formal disintegration’.
The Trump administration has opened a State Department grant programme offering up to $3 million for European projects on free speech, sovereignty, migration, democratic resilience, and ‘civilizational self-confidence’. The scheme translates Washington’s 2025 National Security Strategy into direct support for civil-society work, prompting renewed European accusations of political interference.
‘It’s legitimately scary. I decided that my mental health is degrading so substantially being here that I just need to get out. The situation we have in the US as a trans person [is] not good. But here, I will be hurt or killed,’ a trans woman who fled the United States and was placed in a refugee camp with muslim men told a Dutch news programme in a clip shared on X.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional order faces pressure from two directions after international envoys failed to choose a new High Representative. The US–EU dispute over the office’s future is weakening Dayton’s external safeguard just as Milorad Dodik and Dragan Čović coordinate efforts to overturn OHR decisions and strengthen Serb and Croat autonomy within BiH.
A 28-year-old Colombian national has been shot and killed by ICE agents while driving his car in their direction during an immigration enforcement operation in Biddeford, Maine. The case has some clear similarities, but also key differences, to the shooting of Renée Good in Minnesota earler this year.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham died suddenly in Washington aged 71, one day after returning from Ukraine, where he backed Kyiv and tougher sanctions on Moscow. With no final autopsy or toxicology findings released, claims of Kremlin involvement—including delayed-action poisoning and alleged strikes on sites he visited—spread rapidly, while others also raised possible Iranian involvement.
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A Mediterranean cruise carrying around 2,000 passengers, mainly homosexual men, has been denied entry by both Türkiye and Egypt, turning the Scarlet Lady into a symbol of the clash between often biased Western liberal assumptions and the traditional Islamic view of homosexuality. The controversy also raises broader questions about Muslim immigration to Europe and the future of the so-called ‘Lavender Vote’.
US Senate candidate for Maine Graham Platner has suspended his campaign after POLITICO published sexual assault allegations by his former partner, which he denies. Although prominent Democrats had stood by him through previous scandals, the latest allegations prompted them to withdraw their support.
Argentina’s football establishment is facing growing scrutiny both on and off the pitch as allegations that the World Cup is being ‘fixed’ in Lionel Messi’s favour intensify after the Egypt match, while the Argentine Football Association simultaneously faces a reported FBI investigation in the United States over money laundering.
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