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Lessie Benningfield Randle, a Tulsa Race Massacre survivor, is pictured during the House General Government Committee meeting at the Oklahoma Capitol, October 5, 2023

HUNGARY: The European Union’s top court has ordered Viktor Orban’s government to pay a fine of €200 million (£168m) for persistently breaking the bloc’s asylum rules, plus an additional €1m (£84m) for every day that it persists in failing to comply .

Hungary’s anti-immigrant government has taken a hard line on people entering the country and Mr Orban called the European Court of Justice’s decision “outrageous and unacceptable” in a Facebook post.

 

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