News tagged "danube river"
Ruling favors Slovakia in dispute with Hungaryon Oct 17, 2012 via YahooNews BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) ? In 2009, Hungary's President Laszlo Solyom was barred from visiting an ethnic Hungarian community in Slovakia because of alleged security risks. So the quiet, mild-mannered man walked to the middle of a bridge over the Danube River that separates the Central European nations and ? in an unusually forthright manner ? declared that the "hysteria" had to end. But the ...See details
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Ruling favors Slovakia in dispute with Hungaryon Oct 17, 2012 via YahooNews BUDAPEST, Hungay (AP) ? In 2009, Hungary's President Laszlo Solyom was barred from visiting an ethnic Hungarian community in Slovakia because of alleged security risks. So the quiet, mild-mannered man walked to the middle of a bridge over the Danube River that separates the Central European nations and ? in an unusually forthright manner ? declared that the hysteria had to end. But the simmering ...See details
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Former soldier Zentai wins extradition fighton Aug 15, 2012 via YahooNews A former Hungarian soldier Charles Zentai has won his legal battle to stay in Australia, with the High Court today blocking his extradition.The 90-year-old Perth resident has been fighting extradition to Hungary to face questions over allegations he murdered a Jewish teenager in 1944, while serving in the army.The teen was killed and then thrown into the Danube River.Mr Zentai has long denied ...See details
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High Court upholds decision to allow Zentai to stayon Aug 15, 2012 via YahooNews Alleged war criminal Charles Zentai has won his legal battle to stay in Australia, with the High Court today blocking his extradition to Hungary.The 90-year-old former Hungarian soldier is accused of murdering a Jewish teenager in Budapest in 1944 but has always maintained his innocence.The teen was killed and then thrown into the Danube River.Hungarian authorities pursued Mr Zentai's ...See details
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Travel with the D to Budapeston Apr 29, 2012 via YahooNews Earlier this month, Brenda Dauw of Grosse Pointe, Fran Vermeulen of New Baltimore and R. Cooper of New Baltimore took the old English D with them to Budapest, Hungary. Here, the trio sits in front of the Hungarian Parliament Building on the banks of the Danube River.See details
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Travel with the D to Budapeston Apr 29, 2012 via YahooNews Earlier this month, Brenda Dauw of Grosse Pointe, Fran Vermeulen of New Baltimore and R. Cooper of New Baltimore took the old English D with them to Budapest, Hungary. Here, the trio sits in front of the Hungarian Parliament Building on the banks of the Danube River.See details
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Budapest's skyon 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.See details
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Palinka and pork fortify cyclists on Hungarian touron Nov 30, 2010 via YahooNews Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is situated on both sides of the Danube River.See details
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Hungary plays down threatson Nov 18, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST. Hungarian officials yesterday 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.See details
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Hungary Sludge a Warning for Other Sites in Europeon Oct 15, 2010 via YahooNews The deluge of sludge has raised the alarm across Eastern and Central Europe, where the Danube River is intersected by factories and mines left over from the Communist era.See details
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Death from Hungary's toxic spill rises to 5on 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.See details
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Death toll in Hungarian spill now 7on 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.See details
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Hungary toxic sludge spill reaches Danubeon 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.See details
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Hungary Sludge Spill Worsenson 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.See details
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Hungary: Toxic red sludge has reached the Danubeon 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.See details
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Hungary Toxic Sludge Spill Reaches Danubeon Oct 08, 2010 via YahooNews Hungary Toxic Sludge Spill BUDAPEST (AFP) ? Hungary's toxic sludge spill reached the Danube river Thursday with the first sightings of dead fish in Europe's second longest river, officials said. "I can confirm that we have seen sporadic losses of fish in the main branch of the Danube," regional chief for the disaster relief services Tibor Dobson told AFP. "The fish have been sighted at the ...See details
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Toxic sludge spill reaches Danube Riveron Oct 08, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- A toxic sludge spill has reached a side arm of the Danube River, threatening to contaminate Europe's second-longest waterway, an official from the Hungarian government said Thursday.See details
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Hungarian waste pond was on list of risky siteson Oct 08, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST, Hungary ? The storage pond filled with caustic alumina-processing waste that burst and inundated several Hungarian villages this week was on a 2006 watch list of more than 150 industrial sites that were at risk for accidents that could contaminate the Danube River, according to an environmental group.See details
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Hungary scrambles to contain toxic mud spillon Oct 07, 2010 via YahooNews BUDAPEST (AFP) - Hungary scrambled Wednesday to contain a toxic mud spill that left four people dead and more than 100 injured in what is being described as an "ecological catastrophe" for the region around the Danube river.See details
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Hungary toxic sludge flood - photoson Oct 06, 2010 via YahooNews A lethal torrent of toxic red sludge from a metal refinery engulfed towns in Hungary, burning villagers through their clothes and threatening an ecological disaster as it swept toward the Danube River.See details
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