
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.
MEXICO: Authorities have found the remains of some of the 63 miners who became trapped 18 years ago at the Pasta de Conchos mine in the state of Coahuila after three consecutive governments refused to recover the bodies.
The accident, only eight survived, is considered one of Mexico’s worst mining tragedies and authorities are still trying to determine the cause of a suspected explosion.
UKRAINE: Nato defence ministers have put together a new plan to provide long-term security aid and military training to be used against Russia and are meeting over two days to agree on the support.
Western nations are hoping to bolster Ukraine’s firepower as Russian troops continue to launch attacks along the front lines while the EU is held up by infighting.
UNITED STATES: Oklahoma’s Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit seeking financial and racial justice for the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, who had argued that the actions continue to affect the city today.
About 300 people were killed when white supremacists looted and burned the Greenwood district, but the court ruled that the destruction did not fall within the scope of the state’s public nuisance statute.