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Europe</br></br>Fiscal discipline will be a cornerstone of Hungary's European Union presidency, the country's Minister of State for EU Affairs said in an interview. Budapest takes over the six-month rotating presidency of the EU in January, with stringent economic and fiscal policies and a pro-economic growth approach as its main target areas.</br></br>***</br></br>U.S.</br></br>In Texas, a polygamist sect leader remained mute during an arraignment on bigamy and child sex abuse charges, forcing the court to enter not guilty pleas on his behalf. Warren Jeffs, the 55-year-old ecclesiastical head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints said nothing as prosecutors read a sexual assault charge accusing him of having sex with a girl younger than 17.