European Union envoys “agreed in principle” late Friday on launching EU membership talks with wartorn Ukraine and Moldova after Hungary withdrew its opposition, officials said.

An Italian “anti-fascist” on trial for allegedly attacking neo-Nazis has been freed from house arrest in Budapest as she was elected to the European Parliament, which grants her immunity from persecution, officials said.

Hungary’s nationalist government has repurchased the country’s main international airport as it tries to make Budapest a hub for Chinese tourists.

Moscow said Thursday that the United States should “not be nervous” about Russian warships in Cuba, just 90 miles (144 kilometers) from the U.S., while President Joe Biden was seen wandering away in Italy.

U.S. President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the Group of Seven (G7) western economies agreed to give an extra $50 billion in aid to war-torn Ukraine using frozen Russian state assets as fighting continues on the battlefields.

In a controversial break with historical norms for a mainstream French political party, the leader of France’s conservative ‘Les Républicains’ has called for a nationwide alliance with the far-right anti-immigration Rassemblement National (National Rally) party, Jerusalem Post reports.

A fire spread through a building housing foreign workers in Kuwait on Wednesday, killing dozens of Indian nationals and injuring many, officials said.

Hundreds of Christian families in Lebanon have received medicines, but thousands more still await securing medication, Christian aid workers told Worthy News.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has ordered media to be careful when addressing athletes by gender or marital status ahead of the Olympics in Paris this summer, Worthy News learned late Wednesday.

Hungary’s prime minister said Wednesday he had agreed with the NATO military alliance chief that his nation won’t participate in the defense of Ukraine.