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Hungary to challenge Council of EU’s decision to ban Russian gas purchases — minister
BUDAPEST, October 21. /TASS/. Hungary will turn to the European Court of Justice to challenge the Council of the European Union’s ruling to prohibit Russian gas deliveries, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said,...

Hungary to expand energy cooperation with US — Szijjarto
BUDAPEST, October 21. /TASS/. Hungary will expand energy cooperation with the US, in particular in the use of nuclear energy, including the development and installation of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter...

Budapest Peace Summit Uncertain as Hungary Prepares for Trump-Putin Meeting
Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto during an interview with Bloomberg Television in London, United Kingdom, on April 8, 2025. Getty Images/Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg As reported by Twitter account @FM_Szijjarto The Hungarian Minister of...

Hungary to send another research astronaut to space
Hungary is planning to send another research astronaut, Gyula Cserényi, to the International Space Station, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, adding that Hungary had reaped great economic benefits from...

Hungary’s MOL excludes external influence for fire at refinery
BUDAPEST, October 21. /TASS/. A strong fire at the Danube Refinery in Hungary occurred not because of a terrorist at, explosion or any targeted external influenced, said spokespersons of the Hungarian oil company MOL. "We did not record an...

Hungary under attack for working on peace summit? Fires hit refineries processing Russian oil
Explosions occurred at oil refineries in Romania and Hungary on the evening of October 20, both of which process Russian crude oil, local media reported on October 21. The incidents come as Budapest prepares to host a potential Putin-Trump summit,...

Budapest summit postponed as Putin rejects Trump’s ceasefire proposal
Just days after US President Donald Trump announced plans for a new peace summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, their proposed Budapest meeting has been thrown into doubt. Trump first shared news of the summit late last week...
Trump’s diarrhoea video was a wonderful lesson. The president wants to befoul us
Last week, when HuffPost asked the White House who chose Hungary as the site of an upcoming meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, responded: “Your mom did.” She was obviously...

Former French President Sarkozy starts his 5-year prison sentence
PARIS--Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy began a five-year sentence on Tuesday for conspiring to raise campaign funds from Libya, arriving at La Sante prison in Paris in a stunning downfall for a man who led the country between 2007 and...

Second Trump-Putin Summit In Doubt After Rubio Talks With Russian Foreign Minister
President Donald Trump’s planned second meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin appears canceled after a phone call between top U.S. and Russian officials. The White House said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a “productive call” with...

Canceled: Trump, Putin meeting in Budapest called off
President Donald Trump meets with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Oval Office, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (Official White House photo by Molly Riley) (The Center Square) – The in-person meeting between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin...

Trump in screeching Putin U-turn as White House says NO PLANS to meet Russian president
By RACHEL BOWMAN, US NEWS REPORTER and NIKKI SCHWAB, CHIEF CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT Updated: 16:57 EDT, 21 October 2025 A Trump administration official confirmed Tuesday that there were no plans for the US president and Vladimir Putin to meet 'in...

Democrats' shutdown question: Where's Trump?: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, we report on how...

London may try to disrupt Ukraine peace talks again — Finnish politician
STOCKHOLM, October 21. /TASS/. Armando Mema, a member of Finland's national conservative party, the Freedom Alliance, suggested that Vladimir Zelensky's visit to London on October 24, ahead of the planned Russia-US summit in Budapest, might end up...

Zelensky shamelessly formulates terms for trilateral meeting in Budapest — senator
MOSCOW, October 21. /TASS/. Vladimir Zelensky has been shamelessly putting forward his own terms for a trilateral meeting in Budapest involving himself and Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Donald Trump of the United States as he conditions...

No Trump-Putin Meet In The Immediate Future, Says White House Amid Hungary Summit Buzz
Last Updated:October 21, 2025, 22:22 IST The Kremlin had earlier said that no dates were decided for the possible summit between US President Trump and his Russian counterpart Putin in Hungary. Rapid Read Summarized by AI. + + Follow usOn Google...

Evening Brief: Trump-Putin Budapest Meeting Put on Hold, Chinese Fighter Jet Releases Flares Near Australian Patrol Aircraft
Evening rundown for Tuesday, October 21, 2025. Trump-Putin Meeting in Budapest Put on Hold Amid Diplomatic Tensions Over Ukraine A planned meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest has been postponed,...

Ex-Ukrainian PM suspects Europe may be inciting Zelensky to derail Budapest summit
MOSCOW, October 21. /TASS/. Europeans are encouraging Vladimir Zelensky to disrupt the upcoming Russia-US summit in the Hungarian capital, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov (2010-2014) told TASS. "Clearly, the English, the French, the...

Trump's meeting with Putin in Budapest cancelled after phone call 'turned sour'
Donald Trump will no longer meet Vladimir Putin in Hungary after a phone call between negotiators "turned sour". An anonymous official confirmed the meeting was off after a call between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign...

Trump cancels Putin summit in Budapest calling it wasted meeting
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he had shelved plans for a summit in Budapest with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on the Ukraine war because he did not want a wasted meeting. Trump’s reversal came just days after he announced that he...