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Guitarist Gabor Gado: Two Views from Budapest

on Oct 11, 2010 via YahooNews

Herewith two records released at about the same time, on the same label (Hungary's Budapest Music Center), both prominently featuring Hungarian guitarist G?bor Gad?. If, however, it's pleasing to play the discs side by side--and it really is--it's as much because of the two records' differences as their similarities...

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Hungary village evacuated as new toxic flood ?likely?

on Oct 11, 2010 via YahooNews

A local man cleans his yard in the flooded town of Devecser, 150 km west of Hungarian capital Budapest. Photo: AFP Hungarian police and soldiers evacuated 800 villagers yesterday as authorities feared a second flood of toxic sludge from a chemicals plant was likely after new cracks appeared in a dyke.

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Hungary Toxic Sludge: Cracked Reservoir Wall Will Inevitably Collapse

on Oct 11, 2010 via YahooNews

What's Your Reaction? KOLONTAR, Hungary ? The wall of a reservoir filled with caustic red sludge will inevitably collapse and unleash a new deluge of red sludge that could flow about a half-mile (1 kilometer) to the north, a Hungarian official said Sunday.

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Officials: wall of Hungary sludge lake will fall

on Oct 11, 2010 via YahooNews

ASSOCIATED PRESS KOLONTAR, Hungary ? The wall of a reservoir filled with caustic red sludge will inevitably collapse and unleash a new deluge of red sludge that could flow about a half-mile (1 kilometer) to the north, a Hungarian official said Sunday. That would flood parts of the town already hit by the industrial waste on Monday but stop short of the next town to the north. Environmental State ...

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Hungary: no new cracks in sludge pool

on Oct 11, 2010 via YahooNews

DEVECSER, Hungary ? Hungarian engineers didn't detect any new cracks overnight in a red sludge reservoir that was at risk of collapse, officials said Sunday, expressing hope there wouldn't be a repeat of the toxic deluge that killed at least seven...

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Hungary PM warns of new spill risk, village evacuated

on Oct 11, 2010 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's premier warned on Saturday that the wall of a damaged industrial reservoir could collapse, threatening a second spill of toxic red sludge, and a nearby village was evacuated as a precaution.

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Another toxic spill likely in Hungary

on Oct 11, 2010 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it is "very likely" another deadly spill will occur at a reservoir holding toxic sludge.

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Hungary says sees emergency dam finished by Tuesday

on Oct 11, 2010 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary said it hopes to finish building an emergency dam by Tuesday to hold back a reservoir of toxic sludge after a breach of the original retaining wall caused a deadly flood of industrial waste.

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Jolie begins directorial career in Hungary

on Oct 11, 2010 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie is cutting her directorial teeth in Hungary and has begun shooting her as-yet-unnamed film in Budapest.

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Death toll rises to 5 in Hungarian toxic mud spill

on Oct 09, 2010 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY : The number of people who died in the Hungarian toxic spill has risen to five after one of the victims succumbed to his wounds in a local hospital, officials said on Friday.

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Toxic sludge in Hungary highly caustic

on Oct 09, 2010 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A toxic flood from a burst reservoir in Hungary is 1,000 times more caustic than dust at ground zero in the Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. terror attacks, scientists say.

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Hungary spill pollution eases, Danube monitored

on Oct 09, 2010 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Pollution levels from a red sludge spill in Hungary have declined and the Danube, one of Europe's longest rivers, has suffered no palpable damage so far, a spokesman for Hungarian disaster crews said on Friday.

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Death from Hungary's toxic spill rises to 5

on Oct 09, 2010 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST? Hungarian officials on Friday played down the threat of disastrous pollution to the Danube river from an industrial accident in Hungary, while its prime minister said the situation was under control.

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Hungary spill pollution eases with no big risk to Danube

on Oct 09, 2010 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Pollution levels from a red sludge spill in Hungary have subsided in the Danube and there is no risk of a biological or environmental catastrophe in the major European waterway, Hungarian officials said on Friday.

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Hungary spill pollution eases, no big risk to Danube

on Oct 09, 2010 via YahooNews

By Marton Dunai and Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Pollution levels from a red sludge spill in Hungary have subsided in the Danube and there is no risk of a biological or environmental catastrophe in the river, Hungarian officials said on Friday. [More]

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Death toll in Hungarian spill now 7

on Oct 09, 2010 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The death toll from a massive spill of toxic sludge at a Hungarian alumina plant rose to seven Friday as officials insisted the Danube River is safe.

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Hungary toxic sludge spill reaches Danube

on Oct 08, 2010 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungary's toxic sludge spill, which has killed four people, reached the Danube river Thursday, threatening to contaminate the waterway's entire ecosystem, officials told AFP.

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Hungary Sludge Spill Worsens

on Oct 08, 2010 via YahooNews

Hungary's National Directorate of Disaster Management of the Hungarian government tells Fox News the toxic sludge from the Aluminum plant reservoir burst is approaching the main Danube River. Traces are now being picked up some 12 miles away in a Danube tributary in the town of Gyor.

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Hungary: Toxic red sludge has reached the Danube

on Oct 08, 2010 via YahooNews

The toxic red sludge that inundated three Hungarian villages reached Europe's mighty Danube River on Thursday but no immediate damage was evident, Hungary's rescue operations agency said.

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Toxic Spill in Hungary Claims Lives as Sludge Flood Nears Danube: Hungarian Disaster Reminder of Ecological Disasters ...

on Oct 08, 2010 via YahooNews

The Mother Nature Network is reporting that the red toxic waste that flooded several Hungarian towns has killed at least four, injured 120 and left another three people missing. The flood came from a broken sludge reservoir at a Hungarian aluminum plant. It remains unknown why the reservoir failed. It was inspected just two weeks before the disaster, and no problems were found.

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