Topic - Hungary

Related Stories

Experts disappointed with Hungary’s anti-corruption efforts

The 64-year-old Ukrainian captain of the Swiss-operated Viking Sigyn hotelship, centre, is escorted to a court hearing to decide on his arrest at the Buda Central District Court in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. On May 29, the Viking Sigyn cruise ship collided with the Hableany sightseeing boat that had 33 South Korean tourists on board and a crew of two Hungarians. Seven tourists were rescued from the water after the collision and the rest died. The captain was taken back into police custody on July 29 on suspicion of abandoning the passengers and crew of the Hableany sightseeing boat after the crash. (Marton Monus/MTI via AP)

Ship captain in deadly Danube crash put under arrest again

Hungarian swim federation ex-chief indicted in 1998 murder

Hungary to hold nationwide municipal elections on Oct. 13

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2019 file photo, a family are transported to a transit zone for asylum seekers by police bus, in Roszke, Hungary. Felipe Gonzalez Morales, the U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, said Wednesday July 19, 2019, at the end of a visit to Hungary, that authorities should move families with children awaiting a ruling on their asylum applications from detention in border transit zones to open reception centers. (AP Photo/Pablo Gorondi, File)

UN expert critical of Hungary’s treatment of asylum-seekers

Hungary’s president OKs govt takeover of research

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, shakes hands with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto during their meeting in the latter's office in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, July 12, 2019. (Lajos Soos/MTI via AP)

China warns US ‘not to play with fire’ regarding Taiwan

Illustration on Hungarian immigration policy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Hungary’s sound immigration policy

A crane lifts the sightseeing boat out of the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Eight people are still missing from the May 29 collision between the Hableany (Mermaid) sightseeing boat and the Viking Sigyn river cruise ship at Budapest's Margit Bridge. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

The Latest: Crane lifts sunken tour boat out of Danube River

A rescue crew works on the Danube river where a sightseeing boat capsized in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Divers and rescue crews slowly are recovering the bodies of a growing number of people killed when a sightseeing boat and a long river cruise ship collided in Hungary's capital. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)

The Latest: Cruise ship in fatal crash returning to Budapest

Rescue team members are seen on a barge floating on the Danube river where a sightseeing boat capsized in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, June 1, 2019. As divers descended Friday into the Danube, Hungarian authorities predicted it would take an extended search to find the 21 people still missing after a boat carrying South Korean tourists was rammed by a cruise ship and sank into the river in Budapest. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)

The Latest: Hungary IDs 7 Korean victims of boat sinking

Kang Kyung-wha, center, foreign minister of South Korea, together with her Hungarian counterpart, Peter Szijjarto, right, visits the bank of the Danube River close to Margit Bridge where a sightseeing boat capsized in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, May 31, 2019. Hungarian police have detained the captain of a cruise ship that collided with the sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists, causing it to sink quickly in the river in Budapest, as loved ones of the missing and dead were expected to arrive Friday in Hungary. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

The Latest: ‘Unique’ method needed to salvage sunken boat

FILE - In this April 16, 2014, file photo, South Korean rescue helicopters fly over South Korean ferry Sewol, trying to rescue passengers from the ship in waters off Jindo, South Korea. The deadly sinking of a boat in Hungary carrying South Korean tourists on Thursday, May 30, 2019, is touching a nerve in South Korea, where many are still traumatized over a 2014 ferry sinking that killed more than 300 people, mostly school kids. That grief is compounded by some South Korean tour agents and travelers' claims that there have long been worries over safety at the site where the collision happened. (Yonhap via AP, File)

Tour boat sinking revives memories of SKorea ferry disaster

Responders sit in a rubber dinghy preparing for the search of victims next to a landing dock after a tourist boat crashed with another ship late Wednesday, May 29, 2019. The boat capsized and sunk in the Danube River Wednesday evening, May 29, 2019, in Budapest, with dozens of people on board, including passengers and crew, Hungarian media reported. (Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP)

7 dead, 21 missing after South Korean tour boat sinks in Hungary

A rescue boat searches for victims late Wednesday, May 29, 2019, after a tourist boat crashed with a river cruise boat, in River Danube in Budapest. The boat capsized and sunk in the river Wednesday evening, with dozens of people on board, including passengers and crew, Hungarian media reported.(Peter Lakatos/MTI via AP)

The Latest: Police take cruise ship captain into custody

Photos

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, listens to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a press conference held after the talks of Netanyahu with heads of government of the Visegrad Group or V4 countries in the Pesti Vigado building in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. Netanyahu is staying on a four-day official visit in Hungary. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)

More Photos

Quotations

In July, Hungary said it would withdraw from the process.

Austria says it won't sign UN global migration pact →

© Copyright 2019 The Washington Times, LLC
3600 New York Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002

Switch to Desktop version