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Few European leaders celebrated the results of the U.S. presidential election with as much gusto as Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary. It makes sense: Orban and President-elect Donald Trump share a love of border fences, an open admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a deep skepticism of American involvement abroad, and an apparent affinity for illiberalism. The Hungarian leader first expressed support for Trump on a trip to Romania in July, remarking , “I myself could not have drawn up better what Europe needs.” The two leaders spoke over the phone on Friday , when Trump invited Orban to visit Washington, D.C. “I told him that I have not been there for a long time as I was regarded as a ‘black sheep,’” Orban said . “He laughed and said so was he.” Many of Orban’s regional neighbors do not share his enthusiasm. For the leaders of Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, Trump’s victory upends assumptions about Europe’s security architecture, compelling them … [Read more...] about What Trump Means for Central and Eastern Europe

I met my partner Cazzy at university in the U.K. I had dropped out of a programme to study abroad at the last minute and all my friends had already found accommodation for the next year of study. I was booked to begin living in this awful, dreary apartment block and a friend said she knew someone looking for a roommate. I met with Cazzy and her other two roommates at a bar and we all instantly hit it off. The next day, the decision was made that next year I would join them, rather than moving into the dreary apartment. That's exactly what happened, and over the next year, our relationship blossomed from there. We've both always had an interest in traveling, I'd been fortunate to travel on many family vacations as a kid, as well as a number of cruises. Cazzy had only traveled a couple hours outside of Northern Ireland, to Spain. Neither of us knew what we wanted to do after university and so we made the decision to take a year out and go traveling around South America. We'd both … [Read more...] about “We live in a tiny house van, but there’s a dark side”

On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily , Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that he is the “messenger” for a movement that will continue long after the 2016 presidential campaign ends, regardless of its outcome. In Trump’s view, the forgotten victims of a corrupt and foolish system fill the ranks of that movement – from the politically incorrect victims of illegal alien crime to workers displaced by open-borders immigration and trade policies, and taxpayers ripped off by wasteful and inept Big Government. LISTEN: “Well, Alex, it is a movement. I’ve never seen anything like it,” Trump told SiriusXM host Alex Marlow. “We will have crowds of 20,000, 25,000 people routinely, in an area where she would go and have 300 people, 400 people, and can’t even fill up the seats. This is a movement like no other. I mean, Bill O’Reilly said it, and many others have said it. And these are people that don’t necessarily even like me. But O’Reilly said this is … [Read more...] about Exclusive: Donald Trump: ‘I Am the Messenger’

At the Bharatiya Janata Party’s national executive meeting in Hyderabad recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised the party workers to reach out to the marginalised and weaker sections of the minorities. This was also the party’s first official attempt to win over the Pasmanda Muslim community . This was predictably welcomed by sundry Pasmanda Muslim leaders in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, but sent more than just ripples across the Muslim community. Many read in it the government’s attempt to break the unity of India’s largest minority. Some scoffed at the thought of caste-based divisions in the community, pointing out that there is no caste system in Islam and that attempts to ameliorate the lot of the deprived are mere tactics to augment the party’s vote bank. What the scriptures say On paper, their claims are borne by the tenets of Islam. It was the casteless, classless society that Islam offered that attracted many lower caste Hindus to Islam. Indeed, Islam recognises no … [Read more...] about Reaching out to Pasmanda Muslims

(Courtesy of Getty) NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Jewel Kilcher may have sold over 30 million records and carved out a lasting career that has undergone countless transformations since she first emerged with her poetic-folk album "Pieces of You" in 1995, but these days, the singer-songwriter just wants to go home. We’re not talking about Nashville or Colorado, the two places where she currently resides. Rather, she was yearning to go back to Alaska — Homer, Alaska, to be exact. It’s where the 42-year-old was raised without running water or heat, rode horses every day in the summer, and was trained by her father to "sing good harmony and learn his songs." Jewel originally left decades ago to busk her way across the country (even becoming homeless in the process) until eventually she was discovered, and the rest — as they say — is history. Now, she wants her son, 5-year-old Kase Murray, to get a taste of her childhood, prompting her relocation to … [Read more...] about The ‘Jewel’ of Alaska Returns Home, Explains How Yodeling Saved Her Life

Outside Lands 2022 has come and gone, leaving festivalgoers young and old with memories they'll never forget, as well as a few they'd rather not remember. Throughout the three-day event, SFGATE had five writers on the grounds of Golden Gate Park soaking up all the action. Everyone agreed that the real MVP of the festival was the weather, which may have been the best in at least a decade. But beyond the sunny skies, here are our takeaways of favorite moments, as well as some things that could use improvement in 2023. SZA gets personal It can be hard to create a personal connection when you're playing to tens of thousands of people, but SZA's charming and understated banter between sets gave me a new appreciate for her music. Bonus points for pulling it off while being fresh off a tough case of COVID-19 . — Dan Gentile Phoebe Bridgers goes surfing When you hear an artist play “Down with the Sickness” swiftly followed by “Motion Sickness” as flames erupt on the screen … [Read more...] about The best and worst of Outside Lands 2022, San Francisco’s premiere music fest

This article is from the archive of our partner . The score for Oblivion , written by French electronic band M83, pulses and swells beautifully throughout Joseph Kosinski's film, crescendoing to thundering Hans Zimmer heights (with perhaps a little too much of his Inception bwaammmp sound) and softening into Michael Giacchino-esque plaintive piano plinking. It's a terrific score, propulsive and moody, and Kosinski showed good taste in hiring the band — just as he did when he commissioned Daft Punk to score his Tron: Legacy . He also smartly reteamed with his Tron cinematographer Claudio Miranda, who recently won an Oscar for working miracles in Life of Pi . Oblivion is sleek and gorgeous, smooth and matte-finish, full of watery grays and cool blues. And the film's digital effects — giving us a broken moon and the windswept barren expanse of an Earth gone to seed — are employed with a subtle and particular hand. What I'm saying is that the movie looks and sounds great. … [Read more...] about Not Even Tom Cruise Can Save ‘Oblivion’

"It's the hard knock life for us ... 'Stead of kisses/We get kicked! As millions of moviegoers sit down in front of the same few studio films playing at their local theater over the holidays, the handful of Hollywood creators behind those projects will have that still-rare power: the undivided attention of much of the country. In communities of all kinds, audiences young and old, of various backgrounds, will gather to consume the artistic vision of a select few people. In this way, a single film, whether it’s transporting millions to different worlds, pushing them to explore the depths of their own feelings, or imagining the assassination of a world leader , can still have an enormous influence on culture. The ability to keep our attention in a dark theater for two hours or so means films can teach people things, often without them knowing. Perhaps most exciting is film's ability to teach empathy—by placing audiences so deeply in the shoes of another. Researchers have … [Read more...] about Why a Black ‘Annie’ Is So Significant

In Hollywood, truth is stranger than fiction. On Thursday, Deadline announced that James Franco, he of “Pineapple Express” and “This Is the End,” had been cast as Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in “Alina of Cuba,” a biopic inspired by the life of his estranged daughter, Alina Fernández. On Friday, after the casting of a white U.S. actor in the role of a prominent Latin American political figure had drawn widespread condemnation online (including some very pointed criticism from actor John Leguizamo ), one of the film’s producers came forth with an explanation. "[W]e used Fidel Castro’s ancient Galician heraldry as our focal compass, and then combed through the entire ranks of actors with Latin roots in Hollywood to find someone who has a similar facial structure,” said producer John Martinez O’Felan in a statement . “In executing a close search into our hopefuls through the eye of Spanish and Portuguese genealogy which the Galicians held, we found that James, by far, had … [Read more...] about Commentary: Dear Hollywood, if you’re gonna whitewash the Fidel Castro biopic, just go all the way