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Beetle infestation threatening thousands of ancient books in Hungary's oldest library

Beetle infestation threatening thousands of ancient books in Hungary's oldest library

FILE - The Library of Archabbey Saint Martin. Pannonhalma Hungary. (Photo by: Martin Zwick/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are in jeopardy of being destroyed due to a beetle infestation. Books...

Uzbekistan, Hungary Take Major Step Forward In Nuclear Energy Collaboration

Uzbekistan, Hungary Take Major Step Forward In Nuclear Energy Collaboration

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, July 14. Uzatom Agency, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary and the Hungarian company MVM EGI Zrt., signed a protocol during an official visit by a Hungarian...

Astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary head back to Earth after private space station mission

Astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary head back to Earth after private space station mission

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station’s first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary headed back to Earth on Monday, wrapping up a private mission and catching a ride home with SpaceX. Their capsule undocked from the...

A ‘weird mirror that is Brazil’: New film examines link between evangelicalism, far-right political power

A ‘weird mirror that is Brazil’: New film examines link between evangelicalism, far-right political power

(RNS) — Protesters were dressed in national colors, holding Bibles and signs with crosses, singing Christian hymns and shouting battle cries as a mob violently invaded and vandalized the federal government’s headquarters. This scene of red, white...

Winners of 2025 Praemium Imperiale Awards announced

Winners of 2025 Praemium Imperiale Awards announced

Clockwise from top left: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. © Anne Van Aerschot, courtesy Rosas; Marina Abramović. © The Japan Art Association / The Sankei Shimbun; Peter Doig. © The Japan Art Association / The Sankei Shimbun; SLICK at Flamborough Head,...

Matthew Goodwin, Reform and the politics of resentment

Matthew Goodwin, Reform and the politics of resentment

“I just spent four days in Hungary, a conservative country criticised by elites across the west. I saw no crime. No homeless people. No riots. No unrest. No drugs. No mass immigration. No broken borders. No self-loathing. No chaos. And now I’ve...

Hungary’s oldest library battles beetle infestation

Hungary’s oldest library battles beetle infestation

Hungary’s 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey is battling a severe beetle infestation threatening its historic library. Restoration teams are removing and disinfecting 100,000 books to preserve centuries-old manuscripts, with climate change...

Beetles are eating through centuries of history

Beetles are eating through centuries of history

Hungary’s oldest library, located within the thousand-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey, is fighting to save around 100,000 historic books after a major infestation of beetles was discovered. Staff uncovered the outbreak earlier this year during...

Socialist Spain is drowning in sleaze

Socialist Spain is drowning in sleaze

About fortnight ago, as we both relished scoops of Spanish socialist sleaze while boarding a plane to Hungary, I ran into a longtime pal who splits life between the two nations. My friend’s fusion of dogged rightism and bicultural adaptability —...

Beyond the Óperencia — A Settlement Founded on the American Frontier by Hungarian Emigrants: New Buda

Beyond the Óperencia — A Settlement Founded on the American Frontier by Hungarian Emigrants: New Buda

The following is an adapted version of an article written by Lázár Pap, originally published in Hungarian in Magyar Krónika. America—the new world, the land of opportunity, the land of the free. In the 19th and 20th centuries, hundreds of...

Why Azerbaijan’s future depends on high intellect citizens, not just oil

Why Azerbaijan’s future depends on high intellect citizens, not just oil

By investing in the education of its brightest minds, Azerbaijan is making one of the smartest strategic moves in its post-oil development agenda. The recent selection of 33 top graduates from Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University (ASOIU)...

Hungary Summons Ukraine Envoy Over ‘Forced Conscription’ Death

Hungary Summons Ukraine Envoy Over ‘Forced Conscription’ Death

Hungary summoned Ukraine’s ambassador on Thursday following claims that an ethnic Hungarian man died weeks after military recruiters allegedly assaulted him in Ukraine. Ukraine authorities said they “categorically” rejected accusations that the...

On its 30th anniversary, the ‘international community’ continues to pervert the truth about ‘genocide in Srebrenica’

On its 30th anniversary, the ‘international community’ continues to pervert the truth about ‘genocide in Srebrenica’

Calling things by the wrong name adds to the affliction of the world.[1] Višeslav SIMIĆ Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su There is the American official story regarding Srebrenica. In addition to that...

“No Community Without Borders”—Ordo Iuris Founder

“No Community Without Borders”—Ordo Iuris Founder

Jerzy Kwaśniewski is a Polish lawyer and public figure, best known as the co-founder and president of the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture, a conservative legal think tank based in Warsaw. No political community has ever thrived when...

Hungary summons Ukraine envoy over 'conscription' death

Hungary summons Ukraine envoy over 'conscription' death

BUDAPEST: Hungary summoned Ukraine's ambassador on Thursday following claims that an ethnic Hungarian man died weeks after military recruiters allegedly assaulted him in Ukraine. Ukraine authorities said they "categorically" rejected accusations...

Immigration, Islam, and Insecurity: Political Exploitation Fuels France’s Deepening Divides

Immigration, Islam, and Insecurity: Political Exploitation Fuels France’s Deepening Divides

For years, researchers and academics have worked to dismantle the conflation of immigration with insecurity. In 2023, sociologist François Héran, a professor at the Collège de France, reminded listeners on France Inter that no correlation exists...

How Furst Florist became five-generation family business in Dayton

How Furst Florist became five-generation family business in Dayton

At the turn of the 20th century, Old North Dayton was established as a new home for a host of central European immigrants - Poles, Hungarians, Lithuanians and Germans. They brought with them a rich tapestry of cultural and social norms. In 1905,...

‘Outdated, feudal agriculture’? EU and Hungary clash over the future of farming

‘Outdated, feudal agriculture’? EU and Hungary clash over the future of farming

The resources of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must be distributed more fairly so they are accessible for the most disadvantaged sectors and regions, Christophe Hansen, the European Commissioner for agriculture and food,...

Hungary summons Ukrainian ambassador over reported death of ethnic Hungarian man

BUDAPEST, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Hungary has summoned Ukraine's ambassador in Budapest after an ethnic Hungarian man reportedly died following an alleged beating by military recruiters in western Ukraine's Transcarpathian region, a senior Hungarian...

Hungarian Couple Leads Nationwide Revival of Moral Values with Award-Winning Documentary on Scientology Network

Hungarian Couple Leads Nationwide Revival of Moral Values with Award-Winning Documentary on Scientology Network

KINGNEWSWIRE // Press release // Budapest, Hungary — In a country renowned for its deep cultural roots and strong sense of community, Antónia and Ferenc Novák are inspiring Hungarians to renew their moral foundations for a brighter future. The...

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