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People’s Daily Online (Xinhua) 08:27, April 13, 2026 BUDAPEST, April 12 (Xinhua) — Hungary’s opposition party Tisza, led by Peter Magyar, defeated Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling coalition by securing a majority in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results released by the National Election Office (NEO). With 98.13 percent of votes counted by the NEO, Tisza had won 53.62 percent of the vote and was projected to win 138 of the 199 parliament seats, exceeding the two-thirds threshold. Orban’s ruling Fidesz-KDNP alliance received 37.79 percent and was projected to win 55 seats. The far-right Our Homeland Movement won 5.89…

In a letter to his mother, British World War I poet Wilfred Owen described no man’s land, the piece of territory between belligerent trench lines, as “like the face of the moon, chaotic, crater-ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.” His description readily captures the popular imagination of the war’s blood-soaked battlefield and its sea of unending trench networks. However, these popular conceptions fail to capture the temporal and geographic variations that produced significant diversity in the war’s combat experiences. While Owen could write of the unescapable oppression of the trench in the winter of 1916–17, just two winters previously, the trench had…

13 April 2026 – Navantia and the Turkish Naval Shipyards General Directorate (TGM) formalized on 8 April, at TGM’s facilities in Ankara, the signing of a framework maintenance agreement for the amphibious ship TCG Anadolu, built in Turkey from a Navantia design based on the LHD Juan Carlos I and on the ALHDs for Australia. The agreement was signed by Alfonso Valea González, Navantia’s Commercial Director for Europe and Turkey, on behalf of Navantia, and by Emre Dinçer, TGM’s Director General, on behalf of the Turkish institution. Under this agreement, Navantia will provide maintenance and repair services, technical support both…

Despite frantic, overnight negotiations, peace talks between Iran and the United States have broken down. The two sides had no shortage of disputes to settle, and so it was always going to be hard for them to forge a permanent settlement to their war. But one issue, above all, appears to be responsible for the failure: Iran’s nuclear energy program. “The meeting went well, most points were agreed to,” U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on social media. “But the only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not.”It is not surprising that the nuclear issue is Trump’s main focus, or that…

Gable Steveson has spoken about his upcoming UFC debut after it was announced that his first appearance will take place during this year’s International Fight Week. As we now know, Gable Steveson is the latest member of the Ultimate Fighting Championship roster after a strong start to his mixed martial arts career. It was always likely that he would make a solid transition over, but now, he will have the opportunity to really shake things up in the heavyweight division as he attempts to go all the way and become a UFC champion. That’s going to be easier said than…

US forces start mine clearance mission in Strait of Hormuz. Credit: USCENTCOM. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has stated that its forces began preparations for mine clearance operations in the Strait of Hormuz on 11 April 2026.  The Arleigh Burke-class DDGs USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) transited the strait to establish a “safe pathway” for global commerce following reports of sea mines laid by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more This is part of a broader mission to ensure the strait is “fully clear” of sea…

The U.S. government has an offensive cyber wish list, and the private sector is already bidding. Many federal contractors back the effort, though they still have deeper questions about semantics and where offense ends and defense begins.Terms like “disruption,” “cyber effects” and “defensive operations” were flung around in discussions at the RSAC Conference in San Francisco last month, one of the largest cybersecurity gatherings in the world. In discussions during and after the conference, Nextgov/FCW sought to learn how industry players perceive the vision under President Donald Trump to punch back harder against cyber adversaries, and how those industry leaders…

ISTANBUL — As the United States under President Donald Trump rethinks its security guarantees to Europe, Turkey is making the case for closer integration into the continent’s defense architecture.Speaking at a conference marking the 74th anniversary of Turkey’s entry to NATO, Defense Minister Yaşar Güler criticized the European Union’s reluctance to fully open its defense initiatives to Ankara.Turkey is a member of NATO but not the EU, which means two sets of rules govern — and in many cases limit — cooperation with members of the bloc.“Otherwise, we assess that such an approach by the European Union would cause more…

Credit: Royal NavyDefense Feeds, Plymouth — UK Adventure autonomous minehunter system entered Royal Navy service on April 3, 2026, marking a major modernization in naval mine countermeasures. Delivered under a €430 million Franco-British program led by Thales, the system shifts mine warfare from crewed ships to remotely operated uncrewed platforms. The UK contributed approximately £184 million to the joint initiative, receiving the first of four planned Adventure units.Adventure is not a standalone drone but rather a central node in a distributed mine warfare system. The 12-meter uncrewed vessel deploys multiple off-board systems while operators control missions from safe command centers…

Iran Press TV Monday, 13 April 2026 5:49 AM By Press TV Website Staff The failure of Iran-US talks in Islamabad on Sunday due to maximalist American demands set the tone for a tense and uncertain day. Iranian officials described the discussions as “intensive” and conducted in good faith. Still, they said the negotiations stalled when Washington shifted its demands at the last moment, including a proposal requiring Iran to permanently dismantle its peaceful nuclear program, a condition Tehran rejected as exceeding the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The deadlock, as reported by US media, has left the Trump administration facing a…