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France24 (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Thieves on Thursday stole a laptop computer from Hungarian conductor Zoltan Kocsis containing his version of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished opera "Moses und Aron", MTI news agency reported. Kocsis said the thieves broke into his Budapest house in the early hours of Thursday, while he was asleep. The alarm went off and the thieves ran away with the laptop. On the computer was Kocsis' completed...
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
BUDAPEST, Hungary - A coffin containing the body of an Austrian billionaire has been returned to his family, more than a year after it was stolen from a graveyard by thieves...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Hungarian and Austrian police say the stolen coffin containing the remains of Austrian billionaire Friedrich Karl Flick has been returned to his family.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Budapest - Hungary's Justice Minister Tibor Draskovic has resigned, citing the completion of his legislative work, the government announced on Wednesday. According to a Justice Ministry statement, Draskovics considers that his legislative work for th...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Budapest - Two members of Hungary's Under-20 team revealed Monday that they were offered large sums of money to help swing the result of football matches they were playing in. According to a report in Monday's Nemzeti Sport newspaper, goalkeeper Benc...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Budapest - The executive of Hungary's ruling Socialist Party (MSZP) Saturday nominated parliamentary faction leader Attila Mesterhazy as its candidate for the premiership in next year's general elections. The decision, taken unanimously, must now be ...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- The Hungarian state news agency says a shooting in a university classroom in southern Hungary has left one student dead and three people injured.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A man opened fire at a university in the southern Hungarian city of Pecs Thursday, wounding at least five people, a university spokesman said.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Budapest - Right-wing extremists in Hungary who defy a court order banning the uniform of the Hungarian Guard paramilitary organization will be given 280 dollar fines under new legislation that went into effect on Thursday. The Hungarian Guard, the b...
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Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer Admiral Horthy rode on a white horse into Budapest and his rule started with a massacre of about 3000 persons. His rule ended with the deportation of half a million Hungarian Jews. Hungary’s right wing parties do everything to gloss over those facts. And it is logical that the neo-arrow-cross Jobbik [...]
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Some in the former Soviet satellite now part of NATO and the EU warn that Moscow is intent on reasserting influence, but others see Russia as a useful investor and lucrative market. There's a museum in Budapest called the House of Terror. It has a metal awning with the word "terror" carved out of it, and when the sun is high, the people below step on terror, pass through terror, because the...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Hungary's Magyar Telekom announced Tuesday that it has sold Orbitel, its fully-owned Bulgarian subsidiary, to Bulgarian company Spectrum Net AD for EUR 5 M. "Magyar Telekom decided to exit the Bulgarian alternative retail telecommunication business and focus its operations on businesses where it sees more lucrative prospects," MTel said in a statement on the website of the Budapest Stock...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Budapest- Hungarian energy firm MOL plans to build a new gas processing plant in Pakistan at a cost of 30 to 50 million dollars, chief executive Gyorgy Mosonyi said Monday. He told the state news agency MTI the plant would process up to 20,000 barrel...
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Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The European Alliance of National Movements (AENM), the coalition of far-right parties formed last month in Budapest, has failed in its an attempt to get its hands on European Parliament cash, as the jumble of reactionary rightists did not manage to file the application on time. The alliance, which includes the UK's BNP, France's Front National and Hungary's Jobbik, says it wants its share of the around...
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patrickguillard | 02/24/2009
European Mobility Week Prize 2009 was awarded yesterday to Budapest, by the Commissioner for Science and Research. This award is granted on the base of the evaluation of efforts set up to make people take awareness of the pollution due to the traffic and on the base of sustainable solutions proposals during this week.