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Partial official results show opposition leader Péter Magyar’s party dominating the vote Hungary’s Orbán concedes ‘painful’ election loss to Magyar following 16 years in power  Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded defeat to opposition leader Péter Magyar on Sunday after what he called a ‘painful’ election result, ending his 16-year …

U.S. president says Iran agreed on ‘most points’ in talks but not on nuclear program A vessel is seen in the Strait of Hormuz, off the coast of Oman’s Musandam province, on Sunday. (Reuters)  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday the U.S. navy would immediately start blockading the Strait of …

Police have been cracking down on convoys, blockades set up by protesters A sign reading ‘Can’t afford to move’ is seen affixed to a parked tractor during a protest against rising fuel prices in Dublin on Saturday. (Peter Morrison/The Associated Press)  Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said Sunday that his government …

The mission wrapped up successfully after 10 days Artemis II crew members, from left, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch, pause to turn the camera around for a selfie midway through their lunar observation period of the moon during a lunar flyby on Monday. (NASA/The Associated Press) Canadian …

Humanitarian groups give plan a failing grade as fighting continues in besieged enclave Ola Rihan clutches the bloody notebook belonging to her nine-year-old daughter, Ritaj Rihan, who was shot and killed in her tent school in northern Gaza on Thursday. Rihan says her daughter’s death is proof that there is …

Ceasefire brokered by Pakistan still faces hurdles in talks that began Saturday U.S. Vice-President JD Vance, centre, arrives for ceasefire talks with Iranian officials in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday. The war, which began when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, has killed thousands of people and largely …

Cardinal Christophe Pierre ‘summoned’ by White House in January, according to The Free Press Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defence for policy, testifies at a Senate commitee hearing in Washington on March 3. The Pentagon has denied a report of an acrimonious meeting involving Colby and a Vatican representative. (Kevin Diestch/Getty …

US President Donald Trump. — AFP WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that US warships are being reloaded with weaponry to strike Iran if talks in Pakistan fail to produce a deal, in an interview with the New York Post. “We have a reset going. We’re loading up the ships with …

BEIJING — China’s President Xi Jinping met Taiwan’s opposition party leader Cheng Li-wun in Beijing on Friday, telling her and her delegation he had “full confidence” that the Taiwanese and Chinese people would be united. Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Cheng is the party’s first leader to visit China in a decade, but …

The 4 astronauts will be ‘riding a fireball through the atmosphere’ NASA’s Orion spacecraft from the Artemis I mission is seen approaching Earth. (NASA)  The Artemis II mission is set to end in just a few hours. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy …