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Budapest withdraws as 2017 worlds bid city

on Aug 22, 2011 via YahooNews

Budapest has withdrawn its bid to host the 2017 athletics world championships, leaving just London, Barcelona and Doha, Qatar vying for the event.

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on Aug 21, 2011 via YahooNews

In an interview with Austrian daily ?Die Presse,? quoted by Jurnalul National, Senate speaker Mircea Geoana considers as exaggerate the initiative taken by Budapest authorities to grant the right of vote to the ethnic Hungarians living outside Hungary who receive the citizenship of this country.

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Budapest's sky

on Aug 21, 2011 via YahooNews

A Hungarian pilot flies over the Hungarian parliament building of Budapest, on the Danube River, during an air and water show of the Hungarian national day.

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St. Stephen's Day of Hungary

on Aug 19, 2011 via YahooNews

MANILA, Philippines ? Saturday is the celebration of St. Stephen?s Day in Hungary. This day is a public holiday and marks the day the relics of Stephen I, patron saint of Hungary, were transferred to the city of Budapest, the country?s capital. It also commemorates the foundation of the Hungarian state. In 1771, Empress Maria Theresia passed a law declaring this day an official State and Church ...

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Press Releases: On the Occasion of Hungary's National Day

on Aug 19, 2011 via YahooNews

On the Occasion of Hungary's National Day Press Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC August 18, 2011 On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of Hungary as you celebrate Saint Stephen?s Day this August 20th. This June I visited Budapest to participate in the inauguration of the Lantos Institute and reaffirm the ...

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Budapest hotels did better business during last year's F1 Grand Prix

on Aug 18, 2011 via YahooNews

Occupancy at Budapest hotels during this year's Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix fell 1.7% from last year's event, while revenue per available room (REVPAR) dropped 11.9%, the Hungarian hotel association MszSz said.

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Israel's deputy foreign minister visits Budapest

on Aug 18, 2011 via YahooNews

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon met with his Hungarian counterpart Zsolt N?meth in Budapest on Tuesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.

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Budapest spas: urgent facelift required

on Aug 18, 2011 via YahooNews

The Hungarian capital city's 50-odd baths are a major tourist magnet for Budapest, also known as the "world spa capital" - ranging from 500-year-old Turkish pools to more modern Art Nouveau spa complexes, AFP blogger writes in her post.

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Telenor Hungary upgrades HSPA network to 42Mbps

on Aug 17, 2011 via YahooNews

Telenor Hungary is doubling the speed of its Hipernet service from the initially announced 21 Mbps to 42 Mbps, first in Budapest and its vicinity, Telecompaper.com reported.

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Facelift for Budapest's famous baths

on Aug 17, 2011 via YahooNews

After years, sometimes decades of neglect, Budapest's historic thermal baths are in different stages of renovation to restore crumbling and rotting infrastructure to their heyday state.

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Budapest victims may have been buried alive

on Aug 15, 2011 via YahooNews

HUNGARIAN POLICE have arrested three people after unearthing four bodies on an island in the river Danube in Budapest, and are searching for more people who could have been buried alive.

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Police say Budapest murders point to homeless gang

on Aug 14, 2011 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Members of a gang in a homeless colony in Budapest may have been behind the murders of four people whose buried bodies were unearthed earlier this week, shocking Hungarians, police said on Saturday.

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Hungary: Six suspects in custody

on Aug 14, 2011 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST -- Hungarian police have remanded six persons in custody under suspicion of being involved in a mass murder at Budapest?s Csepel district.

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Police unearth 4 corpses on Budapest island

on Aug 13, 2011 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian police have launched a criminal investigation after unearthing four bodies on an island in Budapest, a police spokesman said Friday, and a newspaper reported that the victims may have been buried alive.

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Police unearth corpses on Budapest island

on Aug 13, 2011 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian police have launched a criminal investigation after unearthing several bodies on an island in Budapest, a police spokesman said on Friday, and a newspaper reported that the victims may have been buried alive.

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Hungarian authorities expand investigation

on Aug 13, 2011 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST -- Hungarian authorities have not released any new detail regarding monstrous crimes in Budapest and have expanded the investigation, Hungarian press writes.

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Budapest victims may have been buried alive

on Aug 13, 2011 via YahooNews

HUNGARIAN POLICE have arrested three people after unearthing four bodies on an island in the river Danube in Budapest, and are searching for more people who could have been buried alive.

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Three suspects accused of "burying people alive"

on Aug 12, 2011 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST -- Two Hungarian citizens and one Macedonian have been arrested for robbing and burying several people alive in Hungary, according to reports.

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Police unearth 4 corpses on Budapest island

on Aug 12, 2011 via YahooNews

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian police have launched a criminal investigation after unearthing four bodies on an island in Budapest, a police spokesman said Friday, and a newspaper reported that the victims may have been buried alive.

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Budapest bodies 'buried alive'

on Aug 12, 2011 via YahooNews

Hungarian police have launched a criminal investigation after unearthing several bodies on an island in Budapest, a police spokesman said today.

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