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Péter Márki-Zay's victory in Hungary's first opposition primary on Sunday is the second time that the engineer, historian, economist and relatively newcomer to politics has confused expectations.Considered an outlier in the first round of voting to decide which individual Hungarian opposition would unite against Viktor Orban in next year's parliamentary elections, Márki-Zay ended up rejecting Klára Dobrev and Gergely Karácsony, both considered much more likely to to win.Karácsony, a popular mayor of Budapest and a favorite before the primaries, withdrew from the race while Dobrev, considered a leftist pro-European option, was defeated in the second round.Márki-Zay's entry into politics was, for many, equally surprising. Márki-Zay, a father of seven who describes himself as a conservati...

Like hundreds of other migrants in the French port city of Calais, Mohammad and Jaber spend every day looking for trucks to hop on in hopes of reaching the UK.If they are successful and manage to latch onto the moving truck between the front cabin and the cargo, the vehicle and its unsuspected passenger will disappear down a French road, towards the submarine train to Great Britain.Mohammad and Jaber are young Sudanese refugees who escaped the war in their country, the horror in Libya and crossed the deadly Mediterranean into Italy. They are now in the northern French city of Calais like hundreds of other people, mostly from East Africa and the Middle East, looking for a way to the UK. These young people are trying to get through the heavily guarded tunnel that links the two countries...