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Hungary Wagner festival will not "Ring" in composer's birthdayon May 23, 2013 via YahooNews By Michael Roddy BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Opera companies throughout the world are staging Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle this year to fete his 200th birthday on May 22, but Hungarian conductor Adam Fischer is having no part of it during his "Wagner Days" festival in June. Fischer, who launched his festival in 2006 in the Bela Bartok concert hall at the Palace of Arts in Budapest, will have a new ...See details
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Hungary Wagner festival will not "Ring" in composer's birthdayon May 22, 2013 via YahooNews By Michael Roddy BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Opera companies throughout the world are staging Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle this year to fete his 200th birthday on May 22, but Hungarian conductor Adam Fischer is having no part of it during his "Wagner Days" festival in June. Fischer, who launched his festival in 2006 in the Bela Bartok concert hall at the Palace of Arts in Budapest, will have a new ...See details
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Hungary Wagner festival will not "Ring" in composer's birthdayon May 22, 2013 via YahooNews By Michael Roddy BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Opera companies throughout the world are staging Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle this year to fete his 200th birthday on May 22, but Hungarian conductor Adam Fischer is having no part of it during his "Wagner Days" festival in June. Fischer, who launched his festival in 2006 in the Bela Bartok concert hall at the Palace of Arts in Budapest, will have a new ...See details
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Hungary Wagner festival will not "Ring" in composer's birthdayon May 22, 2013 via YahooNews By Michael Roddy BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Opera companies throughout the world are staging Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle this year to fete his 200th birthday on May 22, but Hungarian conductor Adam Fischer is having no part of it during his "Wagner Days" festival in June. Fischer, who launched his festival in 2006 in the Bela Bartok concert hall at the Palace of Arts in Budapest, will have a new ...See details
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World Jewish leaders urge Hungary to crack down on Jobbikon May 18, 2013 via YahooNews By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The World Jewish Congress urged Hungary on Tuesday to crack down on the far-right Jobbik party and called on governments in Europe to consider banning neo-Nazi parties threatening democracy and minority rights. The WJC plenary assembly, held in the Hungarian capital rather than Jerusalem to highlight rising anti-Semitism in Hungary, passed a ...See details
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Religion: Hungary???s Jewson May 15, 2013 via YahooNews Budapest, Hungary (Reuters) - When Hungarian radical right-wingers rallied against a Jewish conference in Budapest in early May, a well-known Protestant pastor hid behind the stage while his wife stepped up to the podium to denounce Jews and Israel.See details
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Soccer-Gyor end 30-year wait to win Hungarian titleon May 15, 2013 via YahooNews BUDAPEST, May 12 (Reuters) - Gyor ETO won their first Hungarian championship in 30 years with a 1-0 victory over Ferencvaros on Sunday as closest title rivals Videoton lost 2-1 at Debrecen. The club from Hungary's sixth largest city have 58 points from 27 games with three remaining, giving them an unassailable 10-point advantage over second-placed Videoton. The title was the club's fourth and ...See details
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Christian churches back Jews facing anti-Semitism in Hungaryon May 14, 2013 via YahooNews By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor BUDAPEST (Reuters) - When Hungarian radical right-wingers rallied against a Jewish conference in Budapest in early May, a well-known Protestant pastor hid behind the stage while his wife stepped up to the podium to denounce Jews and Israel. Lorant Hegedus could have preached the same anti-Semitism as his wife, a deputy for the populist Jobbik party in parliament ...See details
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Soccer-Gyor end 30-year wait to win Hungarian titleon May 12, 2013 via YahooNews BUDAPEST, May 12 (Reuters) - Gyor ETO won their first Hungarian championship in 30 years with a 1-0 victory over Ferencvaros on Sunday as closest title rivals Videoton lost 2-1 at Debrecen. The club from Hungary's sixth largest city have 58 points from 27 games with three remaining, giving them an unassailable 10-point advantage over second-placed Videoton. The title was the club's fourth and ...See details
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World Jewish leaders urge crackdown on far-righton May 08, 2013 via YahooNews By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The World Jewish Congress urged Hungary on Tuesday to crack down on the far-right Jobbik party and called on governments in Europe to consider banning neo-Nazi parties threatening democracy and minority rights. The WJC plenary assembly, held in the Hungarian capital rather than Jerusalem to highlight rising anti-Semitism in Hungary, passed a ...See details
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World Jewish leaders urge Hungary to crack down on Jobbikon May 07, 2013 via YahooNews By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The World Jewish Congress urged Hungary on Tuesday to crack down on the far-right Jobbik party and called on governments in Europe to consider banning neo-Nazi parties threatening democracy and minority rights. The WJC plenary assembly, held in the Hungarian capital rather than Jerusalem to highlight rising anti-Semitism in Hungary, passed a ...See details
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World Jewish leaders urge Hungary to crack down on Jobbikon May 07, 2013 via YahooNews By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The World Jewish Congress urged Hungary on Tuesday to crack down on the far-right Jobbik party and called on governments in Europe to consider banning neo-Nazi parties threatening democracy and minority rights. The WJC plenary assembly, held in the Hungarian capital rather than Jerusalem to highlight rising anti-Semitism in Hungary, passed a ...See details
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Hungary's PM slams anti-Semitism, but disappoints Jewson May 06, 2013 via YahooNews By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Prime Minister Viktor Orban strongly denounced growing anti-Semitism in Hungary on Sunday but stopped short of censuring the far-right Jobbik party his audience of world Jewish leaders most wanted him to scold. Orban told the World Jewish Congress (WJC), which is holding its four-yearly assembly in Hungary to highlight its concern about ...See details
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Hungarian far-right decries 'Israeli plot' before Jewish meetingon May 05, 2013 via YahooNews BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Leaders of a far-right Hungarian party accused Israelis of plotting to buy up the country as several hundred nationalists protested on Saturday on the eve of a meeting of the World Jewish Congress in Budapest. ? ? ? ?See details
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Hungarian far-right decries 'Israeli plot' before Jewish meetingon May 05, 2013 via YahooNews By Tom Heneghan and Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Leaders of a far-right Hungarian party accused Israelis of plotting to buy up the country as several hundred nationalists protested on Saturday on the eve of a meeting of the World Jewish Congress in Budapest. Senior figures from the opposition Jobbik party, the third biggest with 43 seats in the 386-member parliament, harangued the crowd ...See details
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Hungarian far-right decries "Israeli plot" before Jewish meetingon May 04, 2013 via YahooNews By Tom Heneghan and Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Leaders of a far-right Hungarian party accused Israelis of plotting to buy up the country as several hundred nationalists protested on Saturday on the eve of a meeting of the World Jewish Congress in Budapest. Senior figures from the opposition Jobbik party, the third biggest with 43 seats in the 386-member parliament, harangued the crowd ...See details
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Hungarian far-right decries 'Israeli plot' before Jewish meetingon May 04, 2013 via YahooNews By Tom Heneghan and Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Leaders of a far-right Hungarian party accused Israelis of plotting to buy up the country as several hundred nationalists protested on Saturday on the eve of a meeting of the World Jewish Congress in Budapest. Senior figures from the opposition Jobbik party, the third biggest with 43 seats in the 386-member parliament, harangued the crowd ...See details
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Hungary court allows far-right rally before Jewish congresson May 03, 2013 via YahooNews By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A Hungarian court has given the go ahead for a far-right protest on Saturday before an international conference of Jewish leaders in Budapest, saying a police ruling that banned it was belated and unlawful. But Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who had ordered the police ban, said the court ruling was "unacceptable" and has asked the president of the Supreme ...See details
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Jewish leaders alarmed by far-right, anti-Semitism in Hungaryon May 02, 2013 via YahooNews By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The rise of far-right movements and anti-Semitism across Europe, notably in Hungary, where more than half a million Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust, will preoccupy Jewish leaders from around the globe when they meet in Budapest on Sunday. "Clearly, anti-Semitism in Hungary is on the rise, and we have also witnessed a dramatic growth in the number of ...See details
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Russian tourists help Hungary spa town flourish amid crisison Apr 30, 2013 via YahooNews By Krisztina Than HEVIZ, Hungary (Reuters) - A former Soviet military airport in western Hungary where MIG fighter jets landed for decades when Hungary was under Soviet rule is now receiving a different type of Russian visitor - tourists arriving in charter flights. Locals have welcomed the new Russian "invasion" of tourists who fly into Sarmellek to head to the spa town Heviz, saying they have ...See details
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