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Democracies across the globe are at a crossroads, as authoritarians seek to chip away at freedoms

Dec. 18, 2024 08:30 AM EST

In November, the world's most powerful democracy elected as its next president a man who schemed to overturn its last presidential election. A month later, South Koreans swarmed their legislature to block their president's attempt to impose martial law. The contrast sums up a year...

Journalists anticipate a renewed hostility toward their work under the incoming Trump administration

Dec. 16, 2024 15:49 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — For the press heading into a second Trump administration, there's a balancing act between being prepared and being fearful. The return to power of Donald Trump, who has called journalists enemies and talked about retribution against those he feels have wronged him,...

Trump extends unprecedented invites to China's Xi and other world leaders for his inauguration

Dec. 12, 2024 19:25 PM EST

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders to his inauguration next month — an unorthodox move that would fold U.S. allies and adversaries into a very American political tradition. Trump said Thursday...

Italy's Meloni and Hungary's Orbán pledge deeper cooperation on migration and Ukraine

Dec. 04, 2024 13:31 PM EST

ROME (AP) — Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni met her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán on Wednesday in Rome, where the two discussed the situation in the Middle East, their support for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and their commitment to the eastern country’s reconstruction. ...

Pope Francis discusses Ukraine with Hungary's nationalist leader Viktor Orban

Dec. 04, 2024 05:45 AM EST

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis met Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Vatican on Wednesday and discussed with him the war in Ukraine, focusing on the humanitarian situation and efforts to promote peace in the region. Francis also discussed other themes with Orban,...

Trump 2.0 has a Cabinet and executive branch of different ideas and eclectic personalities

Nov. 25, 2024 17:58 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s personnel choices for his new Cabinet and White House reflect his signature positions on immigration and trade but also a range of viewpoints and backgrounds that raise questions about what ideological anchors might guide his Oval Office encore. ...

NATO and Ukraine to hold emergency talks after Russia's attack with new hypersonic missile

Nov. 22, 2024 16:49 PM EST

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with an experimental, hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war. The conflict is “entering a decisive phase,” Poland's Prime Minister...

Hungary's Orbán vows to disregard international arrest warrant for Netanyahu

Nov. 22, 2024 06:58 AM EST

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday denounced the International Criminal Court’s issuing of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he would defy it by inviting him to Hungary. In comments to state radio,...

Trump's against climate action. But some right-wing governments are all for it

Nov. 21, 2024 07:56 AM EST

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — They’re political soulmates except when it comes to climate. President-Elect Donald Trump praised Hungary’s right-wing populist leader Viktor Orbán as respected, smart and a “strong man” in his winning 2024 campaign. During Hungary’s rotation at...

Slovak opposition rallies against the government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico

Nov. 17, 2024 22:06 PM EST

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands of protesters gathered in Slovakia’s capital on Sunday, the 35th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that brought an end to decades of communist rule in Czechoslovakia, to oppose the policies of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico. The...