Conservative Peter Magyar was sworn in as Hungary's new prime minister on Saturday. Magyar's center-right Tisza party defeated Viktor Orban's right-wing populist Fidesz by a landslide last month, ending his 16-year rule. "Hungarian people have given us a mandate to put an end to decades of drifting," Magyar said.
Australia's far-right One Nation party won a key by-election on Saturday in a rural seat that had been held by traditional conservatives for more than half a century. Preliminary results showed its candidate, David Farley, was on track to win 59.1%, defeating the incumbent center-right Liberal Party by a wide margin.
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The White House directed several agencies to divulge files that have to do with so-called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) and other unexplained phenomenon. The Pentagon on Friday led the way by releasing a trove of documents.
South Africa's Constitutional Court on Friday ordered the country's Parliament to reconsider impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa. The ruling stems from an allegation that $580,000 in US banknotes, hidden in a couch, was stolen from Ramaphosa's private Phala Phala game farm in 2020. The court did not rule on the substance of the allegations.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has left the Vatican after a lengthy meeting with Pope Leo on Thursday, amid tensions between the pontiff and President Donald Trump. Rubio spent around two and a half hours inside, first meeting the pope, then holding talks with senior Vatican officials, including Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
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Polls opened across the UK on Thursday morning as voters are set to elect a number of local councils and several mayors, as well as the composition of the Scottish and Welsh parliaments.
A United States federal judge on Wednesday released a document described as an alleged suicide note written by late financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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