Footage of a group of men attacking a person inside an apartment complex in Vilvoorde, Belgium, is being circulated on the social media site X. Multiple accounts, including that of a sitting Belgian MP, claim that the attack was perpetrated by migrants against an elderly white man.

Hungarian energy attorney Máté Tóth has accused Economy and Energy Minister István Kapitány of making misleading claims about Hungary’s gas prices. He says physical gas purchases and price hedging are separate transactions, and claims MVM had already begun hedging for 2027, despite the Minister’s statements to the contrary.

‘The snivelling wokesters will work themselves into a lather over the name. A mature country does not run from its history. A serious country does not vandalize its memory to satisfy the latest fashion in whinger politics,’ Minister of Rail Winston Peters of New Zealand has stated about a new ferry connecting the North and South Islands of New Zealand being named after Captain Cook.

The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity is marking the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of All Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes with its 13th ‘Remember. August 23’ campaign. This year, the initiative tells the story of Dr Stefania Perzanowska, who saved prisoners’ lives by establishing a hospital inside the Majdanek concentration camp in 1943.

A dramatic police chase unfolded along the northern shore of Lake Balaton after a Mercedes driver refused to stop for police. Officers fired at the vehicle’s tyres, but the man continued fleeing, ramming several police cars before crashing into a utility pole in Balatonfüred, Hungary.

Nathan Cafnas, the self-described ‘race realist’ researcher who first published the accusations of plagiarism against Jason Arday, has been suspended from his position by Ghent University pending an investigation. He blames the decision on rector Petra De Sutter, who was also the first transgender minister to serve in a European Union country.

A former British police officer has been convicted of sharing a meme mocking Islam, reigniting debate over free speech and Britain’s blasphemy laws. The case has also drawn attention in the US, with Senator Ted Cruz condemning the conviction and declaring on X: ‘No meme is criminal. The UK has fallen.’

Florida’s 2026 primaries delivered another strong result for Republicans, with Trump-endorsed Byron Donalds easily winning the GOP gubernatorial nomination. Republicans also turned out in greater numbers than Democrats, while the biggest surprise came on the Democratic side, where Democratic Socialist Angie Nixon defeated Alex Vindman despite being heavily outspent.

The Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was reportedly planning to add so-called ‘wudu’ Muslim foot wash stations to accommodate the religious minority’s practice. However, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has threatened to revoke the airport’s state grants for religious discrimination and referred it for investigation to the US Department of Transportation, thus the plans were scrapped.

ELTE and the University of Szeged have been named Hungary’s top universities in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, both placing in the 501–600 range. Four Hungarian institutions made the world’s top 1,000, led globally by Harvard, Stanford, and MIT.