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Budapest Pride: Many thousands of marchers defy police ban
Deutsche Welle
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June 28, 2025
Tens of thousands LGBTQ+ rights supporters took part in the Budapest Pride march on Saturday, in defiance of a police ban and threats from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. "We believe there are 180,000 to 200,000 people attending," Pride...
Hungary to hold pride parade despite Orban’s ban
News.Az
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People protest after parliament fast-tracked legislation to ban the annual Pride march by LGBTQ+ communities on the grounds that it could be considered harmful to children, in Budapest, Hungary, March 18, 2025. REUTERS/Marton Monus Earlier this...
Budapest Pride goes ahead despite police ban
Deutsche Welle
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June 28, 2025
Tens of thousands LGBTQ+ rights supporters took part in the Budapest Pride march on Saturday, in defiance of a police ban and threats from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. "We believe there are 180,000 to 200,000 people attending," Pride...
Hungary Banned Pride Events. Thousands Marched Anyway.
Mother Jones
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June 28, 2025
Rudolf Karancsi/AP Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Earlier this year, Hungary’s parliament passed legislation banning Pride events and allowing the use of facial...
Budapest: Together in Pride, Together in Protest
European Federation of Journalists
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This Saturday, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joined the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), ILGA-Europe, the European Public Service Unions (EPSU) and trade unionists from across Europe at Budapest Pride to stand for...
Bus сarrying Ukrainian сhildren сrashes in Hungary, 21 injured
The Kyiv Independent
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July 6, 2025
Editor's Note: This story has been updated with additional details from Ukraine's Foreign Ministry. A bus carrying Ukrainian children veered off the road and overturned on a Hungarian highway on July 6, leaving 21 people injured, Ukraine's embassy...
Hungary’s Camino: The Road to Mary’s Shrine
National Catholic Register
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About an hour and a half north of Budapest by car, there’s a little yellow church — the Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption — that stands, baroque and bright, at the bottom of the valley of Mátraverebély. The shrine is called Szentkút, and our...
Budapest Pride parade will go ahead despite ban - mayor
RTE Ireland
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June 27, 2025
Budapest's mayor Gergely Karácsony has said that tomorrow's Budapest Pride parade will go ahead as planned despite a ban by Hungarian authorities. Speaking at a press conference this afternoon at Budapest City Hall, Mr Karácsony said that Hungary...
Budapest Pride to go ahead amid Orbán pushback
EurActiv
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June 28, 2025
Tens of thousands of Hungarians are expected to take to the streets of the Hungarian capital for a historic edition of Budapest Pride, amid pushback from the Orbán government and local police authorities. The march comes amid a deepening crackdown...
Horror as bus carrying children overturns in 'unknown circumstances' seriously injuring 4
Daily Express
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July 6, 2025
A coach carrying Ukrainian children crashed in Hungary, injuring a total of 19 people - including four seriously. The accident happened on Sunday morning at around 5.00am near the outskirts of Kungyalu.The coach was heading towards Kunszentmárton...
Ukrainian children's ensemble was on bus that crashed in Hungary, four seriously injured
Ukrainska Pravda
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The aftermath of the crash. Photo: Hungarian Police Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has provided further details about an accident involving a Ukrainian bus carrying children that occurred in Hungary on Sunday 6 July. Source: Ministry of...
Budapest Pride event to challenge ban in Hungary
Bangkok Post
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June 28, 2025
Hardline PM Orban says police won’t break up march but participants will face ‘legal consequences’ PUBLISHED : 28 Jun 2025 at 16:45 BUDAPEST - A record number of people are expected to attend Saturday’s Pride march in the Hungarian capital...
New Miiro Lifestyle Hotel Brand Expands Further In Europe
Forbes
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Volta Bar at Miiro Borneta in Barcelona James McDonald Miiro Hotels, a new lifestyle hotel brand launched last year by InterGlobe Enterprises UK, part of the largest aviation (IndiGo Airlines) and hospitality conglomerate in India, continues to...
Budapest Pride: march to go ahead in defiance of Orban's ban
Euronews
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Senior European Union officials joined Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony at an international press conference on Friday at City Hall to mark the event. Mayor Karácsony opened the event by highlighting the significance of the large media turnout,...
Bob Kustra: Donald Trump’s ethnic cleansing is proof of man’s inhumanity to man
Chicago Tribune - Illinois
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July 6, 2025
One of the great mysteries of my family life is what possessed two teenage sisters at the turn of the 20th century to leave home in Rzeszow, Poland, and head for a new life in America. I’m sure the poverty of the peasantry under the...
Budapest Pride: Dutch politician Paul refuses to join, citing safety concerns
NL Times
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June 28, 2025
Caretaker State Secretary Mariëlle Paul of the VVD party announced Friday that she would not participate in the Budapest Pride march, citing uncertainty about the situation and the risk that participants could be arrested. Paul traveled to...
Budapest Pride
The Portugal News
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On 28 June, the city of Budapest will organise Hungary’s Pride march as a municipal event celebrating freedom, in a move to circumvent a law that allows police to ban LGBTQ+ marches. Gergely Karacsony, Mayor of Budapest, stated that since the...
A populist party that began on YouTube helped disrupt Japan’s ruling coalition
Mint
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July 22, 2025
Sanseito—which translates as the participate-in-politics party—is into organic farming and worshiping the Emperor, and isn’t keen on vaccines or foreigners. It polled fourth in Sunday’s parliamentary election, helping to deprive Prime Minister...
Ukrainian Children’s Bus Overturns in Hungary, 19 Injured
Mezha
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July 6, 2025
This was reported by the Embassy of Ukraine in Nyíregyháza (Hungary) In the morning, around five o’clock, an incident occurred in Hungary involving a bus carrying Ukrainian children. For unknown reasons, the vehicle veered off the road and...
Budapest Pride expected to be a rallying cry against Orbán’s rollback of rights
The Guardian
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June 28, 2025
Record numbers of people are expected to take part in Budapest Pride on Saturday, with Hungarians joining forces with campaigners and politicians from across Europe in a march that has become a potent symbol of pushback against the Hungarian...