During a meeting on Monday with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged global powers to facilitate direct dialogue and negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
Orban, who is an outspoken critic of Western military aid to Ukraine and has the warmest relations of any EU leader with Russian President Vladimir Putin, held talks with Zelenskyy during his first trip to Kyiv in more than a decade.
Followers of the Hare Krishna Hindu movement gathered in Budapest for their largest annual celebration. They sang and danced alongside a massive, intricately decorated cart. Despite the heat, spectators lined the city centre streets to witness the Chariot Festival unfold.
Xi Jinping's first stop will be Paris, where his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron will be waiting for his arrival amid the fact he had a similar trip to Beijing last year.
Xi will also visit Hungary, a country Lin called an "important cooperation partner for China in promoting the Belt and Road initiative, and China and Central and Eastern European countries' cooperation."
Sweden has stayed out of military alliances for more than 200 years and long ruled out seeking NATO membership. But after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it ditched its longstanding policy of nonalignment almost overnight and decided to apply to join the alliance.
Her decision came after more than a week of public outrage after it was revealed that she issued a presidential pardon in April 2023 to a man convicted of hiding a string of child sexual abuses in a state-run children's home.
Turkey, a NATO member, has been dragging its feet on ratifying Sweden’s accession for more than a year, accusing the country of being too lenient toward groups it regards as security threats.
Orban, who maintains close relations with Russia, refused to green-light the funding to help Ukraine's government at a critical juncture in the war against Russia. The Kremlin praised Orban's stance and criticised the EU's decision on membership talks as "politicised".
Orban has repeatedly argued against Ukraine's membership in the European Union, most prominently over a law passed by Kyiv restricting the use of minority languages in schools. He has also maintained close relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, historians, activists, survivors and their families are all preparing for the time when there will no longer be living witnesses to share first-person accounts of the horrors of the Nazi genocide during World War II.
The Csongrad-Csanad county police said they had closed the entire width of the road during the on-site inspection and rescue. Traffic was diverted to surrounding streets.
In a meeting with 52 students evacuated from Ukraine and their parents at his official residence, 5, Kalidas Marg, the chief minister said it is only because of their faith in the Narendra Modi government that their safe return has been possible.
The foreign secretary said though the border crossings to Hungary and Romania are functioning, the exit point to Poland has been clogged with lakhs of Ukrainians and foreign nationals trying to leave the strife-torn through it.
Booksellers in Hungary were ordered by the Government to place children’s books that depict homosexuality in “closed packaging,”.
EU leaders clashed with Hungary's prime minister during a heated summit Thursday over new legislation in his country that will ban showing content about LGBT issues to children.
Tens of thousands of soccer fans packed the Puskas Arena in Budapest last week to attend Euro 2020 matches.
Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani missed two games against Peru in October as they recovered from injuries.
Arranged by the Museum of the Hungarian National Assembly, the exhibition will run from May 18-27 at the India International Centre (IIC) here.
An exhibition titled "The Hungarian National Assembly" will showcase photographs capturing the splendor of the heritage building in New Delhi.
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