Power Shift in Hungary
Hungarian President Rejects Magyar's Resignation Demands
Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has made his opinion clear about incumbent President Tamás Sulyok: he wants to remove him.
But Sulyok, who was appointed by Viktor Orbán, has now announced that he intends to fight to keep his post and resist the new government's attempts to remove him, reports Politico.
- No parliamentary majority can give a mandate to disregard the principles of the rule of law and European values, Sulyok tells Politico.
At the same time, he accuses Magyar's party Tisza of wanting to concentrate power faster than Orbán's party Fidesz did during its 16 years in power.
- Tisza wants to achieve a greater concentration of power in 16 weeks than Fidesz did in 16 years, because the party effectively wants to replace all public officials elected by the previous parliament, Sulyok says.
Political situation in Myanmar
UN: 702 civilians killed in six months in Myanmar
From the time the Myanmar military announced elections in August 2025 until polling stations opened at the end of December of the same year, 702 civilians in the country were killed by the military. This is according to a new UN report.
Of these, 476 people were killed in airstrikes.
According to the report, reduced international support has contributed to civilians becoming more vulnerable to violence and abuse.
– As if the people of Myanmar have not already suffered enough under military rule, they now seem to have been forgotten by the outside world, says UN human rights chief Volker Türk.
In October, 23 people, including four children, were killed in a single airstrike near a school in Chaung-U in the Sagaing region, writes the BBC.
Artemis missions
Laser on the moon's south pole to keep track of the clock
Scientists want to place a laser in the craters on the moon's south pole to ensure that the clock runs correctly on the moon, reports SVT Nyheter.
There is a lot that will have to work once NASA's base on the moon's south pole is in place. To coordinate all activities, the moon needs its own global navigation system, for example, but for that to work, the satellites must also have an exact common time. It is not entirely easy, since time on the moon moves faster than on Earth. If the time is slightly off, it can be enough for the navigation system to give results that are several kilometers off, and therefore a very precise timekeeper is required. The whole thing is to be solved with an "optical atomic clock" where an ultra-stable laser keeps track of the ticking. The plan is to place the laser in a place where it can work undisturbed, says physicist Jun Ye, who was involved in developing the atomic clock.
“In the permanently shadowed craters at the moon's south pole, sunlight has not reached for billions of years,” he says.
