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Wizz Air Adds 16 Italy Routes, LCC Market Share Climbs
Routes
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Wizz Air is doubling down on its largest market by launching 16 new routes from four Italian airports as low-cost operators grow in the country and competition between them continues to intensify. The expansion will add connections over the coming...
Steeped in the horrors of post-war Hungary, these are not ordinary Holocaust stories By Aviya Kushner 5 min read
Forward
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August 15, 2025
Screenshot Courtesy of Restless Books By Aviya Kushner August 15, 2025 1945 and Other Stories By Gábor T. Szántó Translated by Walter Burgess. Marietta Morry, TLR Bass and Ivan Sanders Ceeol Press, 272 pages, $19 Gábor T. Szántó’s stories examine...
Children from afar spend their holidays in Hungary
Daily News Hungary
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August 15, 2025
Armenian children from Nagorno-Karabakh are spending a week-long holiday in Hungary with the support of the government’s Hungary Helps programme, the state secretary for aiding persecuted Christians said on Facebook on Thursday. In a live-stream...
EU states, except Hungary, back Ukraine’s right to shape its own future
Daily News Hungary
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August 15, 2025
Ahead of the Alaska summit between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, European Union states, except Hungary, on Tuesday reiterated the need for Ukraine’s freedom to decide its own future. “The people of Ukraine...
Meet David Cronenberg & Atom Egoyan at Budapest Classic Film Marathon this September
XpatLoop
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Canadian film directors David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan, as well as Robert Lantos, the producer of several of their works, will be the guests of honor at the Budapest Classical Film Marathon, a festival of the National Film Institute (NFI) in...
One of the Largest Shopping Malls in Budapest Launches 'Hackathon' to Redefine Visitor Experience
XpatLoop
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The Westend shopping center in Budapest, part of the Gránit Pólus Group, has launched its first-ever competition aimed at elevating the visitor experience, called "HackTheMall: The Westend Experience". The competition invites innovative ideas to...
Hungary Offers Model for Conservative Higher Ed Reform | Opinion
Newsweek
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August 14, 2025
Across the West, universities have ceased to be neutral institutions. Once dedicated to the pursuit of truth, they have become fortresses of ideological conformity. Anyone who diverges from progressive orthodoxy is excluded from faculty ranks,...
US, Europe still doing billions of dollars' worth of business with Russia
RNZ
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August 15, 2025
By Lauren Kent, CNN A ship carrying Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) unloads gas in the port of Bilbao, Spain, on March 10, 2022. Photo: Vincent West/Reuters via CNN Newsource US President Donald Trump is threatening an additional 25 percent...
Budapest’s Keleti station to shut for nearly a month — Here’s how train travel will change
Daily News Hungary
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August 14, 2025
Photo: FB/MÁV Budapest’s Keleti railway station will be closed between 25 August and 20 September due to railway repairs, the chief of national railway company MÁV told a press conference on Wednesday. Zsolt Hegyi said railway infrastructure...
Third Budapest Bus Fire in Two Days Sparks Political Row
XpatLoop
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A bus caught fire on Alkotás út in downtown Buda yesterday, the third such incident in just two days. The blaze broke out in the engine compartment at a time when the bus was stopped with no passengers on board. The driver extinguished the blaze...
Art Deco from an enduring Cleveland business shines at art museum
WVXU News - Ohio
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August 15, 2025
Art Deco may seem synonymous with places like New York City or Paris, where the design movement originated a century ago. But there’s a strong presence in Cleveland too. Not long after its founding in 1904, Rose Iron Works quickly emerged as a...
Trump–Putin Talks and US Inflation Top Market Watch Amid Global Shifts
Investing
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August 15, 2025
Wall Street took a cautious step back after hotter-than-expected U.S. producer prices reignited inflation concerns and dulled hopes for a September Fed rate cut. July’s PPI rose at its fastest monthly pace in three years, driven by rising service...
China’s BYD Opens 5 New Dealerships in Hungary
Budapest Business Journal
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August 15, 2025
In cooperation with BYD, Pappas Auto will operate a new dealership in Budapest, AutoWallis one in Debrecen, JP Auto one in Kecskemét and one in Nyíregyháza and Autocentrum Szabó one in Székesfehérvár. The dealerships will offer BYD’s entire model...
Market exchange rates in China -- Aug. 14
China Internet Information Center
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BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 25 major currencies announced on Thursday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate...
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: The Trump-Putin Meeting in Alaska â A Historic Pivot that Redefined Global Power
Natural News
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August 17, 2025
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: The Trump-Putin Meeting in Alaska – A Historic Pivot that Redefined Global Power THE MEETING THAT SHOOK THE WORLD: A GEOPOLITICAL EARTHQUAKE The frozen tundra of Alaska, a land of stark beauty and brutal realism, became the...
HSBC chooses Greek bank as preferred bidder to take over Malta branch
The Malta Independent
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HSBC has chosen a Greek bank as its preferred bidder to take over its Malta branch, which has now been up for sale for a number of months, the bank said in an announcement on the Malta Stock Exchange on Friday. “The Bank has been informed by HSBC...
BYD Strengthens Hungarian Presence with New Dealerships in Five Cities
Hungarian Conservative
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August 15, 2025
BYD, the Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer, is set to open five new car dealerships in Hungary in the fourth quarter of 2025. The new locations will be in Debrecen, Kecskemét, Nyíregyháza, Székesfehérvár and Budapest’s 13th district, the...
World’s leading deep tech experts to gather in Budapest
About Hungary
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August 15, 2025
The Connexions – CEE Deep Tech Summit, taking place on 11 September in Budapest’s Bálna Defence Centre, will bring together leading global experts in space, biotechnology, medical technology, and cybersecurity, the National Innovation Agency (NIÜ)...
Tristan Azbej: Armenian children from Karabakh once again welcomed to Hungary
About Hungary
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August 15, 2025
Armenian children of Karabakh origin are once again spending their summer in Hungary with the support of the Hungary Helps Program, State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians Tristan Azbej announced Thursday on Facebook. Speaking from...
FM Szijjártó: Oil deliveries to Hungary may resume Friday after Ukrainian drone strike
About Hungary
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August 15, 2025
Oil deliveries to Hungary could resume as early as Friday following an interruption caused by a Ukrainian drone strike, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced Thursday on Facebook. According to a ministry statement,...