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Europe
Hungary
July 23, 2024 11:50am EDT Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s self-proclaimed "peace mission" trips to Moscow and Beijing this month aimed at brokering an end to the war in Ukraine. EU partners 'overwhelmingly' saw it as undermining their support for Kyiv, EU foreign affairs chief Borrell said yesterday in Brussels. He had decided that the upcoming foreign and defense ministers' meeting would take place in Brussels instead of Budapest. Borrell said that EU member states had been divided between those who wanted to attend in Budapest and those who did not. Ultimately he said it was within his power to decide. Hungary currently holds the rotating EU presidency, and as such had expected to host the annual late August gathering known as the Gymnich in late August. This gathering should now be held in the EU capital in September, Borrell announced. Before the decision was announced, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó slammed what he called a 'concerted, hysterical, often mocking series of attacks' on Orbán’s recent surprise meetings with Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi. Only Slovakia’s deputy foreign minister had vocally offered support to Hungary’s "peace mission," he noted. Hungary took over the six-month rotating role July 1, and since then Orbán has visited Ukraine, Russia, Azerbaijan, China, and the United States on a world tour he’s touted as "peace mission" aimed at brokering an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine. (Source: foxnews - U.S.)
North America
United States
Jul 23, 2024 09:02 AM IST Musk felt 'tricked' into consenting for his biological son, who is coming out as transgender, to go on puberty blockers. Musk expressed that to Canadian psychologist Dr Peterson. They discussed the controversial topic of doctors performing sex change procedures on minors, a practice both Musk and Peterson denounced as 'evil.' The tech mogul's recent decision was to move X and SpaceX headquarters from California after Governor Newsom signed the new Assembly Bill 1955, which will allow school forms not to notify the parents of their children's gender. A preprint study from the Mayo Clinic earlier this year indicated that puberty blockers could cause long-term fertility issues in boys. Musk shared his personal experience with his child Xavier, who now identifies as Vivian. He said it was pivotal in making him aware of 'the woke mind virus,' which he has vowed to “destroy”. 'It happened to one of my older boys, where I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys, Xavier. This is before I had any understanding of what was going on. COVID was going on, so there was a lot of confusion and I was told Xavier might commit suicide if he doesn't…' Musk recounted. Vivian came out as transgender in June 2022. 'The people that have been promoting this should go to prison.” He didn't know puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs. He criticized the term 'gender affirming care' as a 'terrible euphemism.' (Source: hindustantimes - India)
23/07/2024 - 19:23 GMT+2 US Secret Service Director Cheatle resigned following a security failure during the assassination attempt on former President Trump, a position she had held since being appointed by President Biden in 2022. (Source: euronews - Lyon, France)
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