CEGLÉD, Hungary (AP) – István Vároczi, a 63-year-old entrepreneur from the small Hungarian city of Cegléd, says he doesn’t believe the polls that show Prime Minister Viktor Orbán could lose a pivotal election on Sunday. After 16 years in power and four straight election victories, Orbán is facing an unprecedented challenge.
BEIRUT (AP) – In the hours after the U.S. and Iran announced a tentative ceasefire, Israel dramatically escalated its attacks in Lebanon against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. The burst of strikes in central Beirut and other parts of the country killed over 300 people and wounded 1,150, according to health officials.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Iran war is darkening the outlook for the world economy – whether or not a fragile ceasefire holds, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned Thursday. Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the fund will downgrade its forecast for the world economy next week.
NEW DELHI (AP) – Voters in India’s Assam and Kerala states and the federally administered region of Puducherry began casting ballots Thursday in local elections seen as a test of support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party.
LONDON (AP) – Britain and Norway conducted a weekslong military operation to deter Russian spy submarines near undersea cables in the North Atlantic, the U.K. defense chief said Thursday, accusing Moscow of using the distraction of the Iran war to ramp up malign activity against Europe.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – When President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, he was eager to pick up where he left off by strengthening ties with Europe’s right wing. But now many of those same factions are expressing open revulsion at the Iran war, rupturing relationships that were supposed to usher in a new international order.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
Zainab Haider was making the drive home after work with her two young children Tuesday as she contemplated what might come from the deadline President Donald Trump had set for Iran to concede to U.S. demands. Would her relatives in Iran be safe or would they be wiped off the map?
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Wednesday asked public and private sector workers, whose wages have long not allowed them to afford basic necessities, for patience as her government works to improve the country’s economy.
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