 The head of Austria's far-right Freedom Party, Herbert Kickl, has announced the formation of a new political alliance with the party of Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban and that of the former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. They're inviting others to join. Two German military satellites launched six months ago are still not operational. The two spy satellites should have begun transmitting images of the Earth's surface but are unable to do so because of a technical defect.