Budapest, October 30 (MTI) – Two children died and a third is
missing and feared dead after the wall of a sand quarry collapsed on
them in Sumegpraga, a village in W Hungary, on Tuesday afternoon. Continue »

Budapest, October 30 (MTI) – The day will begin with overcast skies, and then partially clear in the north, but scattered showers remain likely. Continue »

Budapest, October 30 (MTI) – Hungary’s oil and gas company Mol will start selling a new, environment-friendly diesel in November, Mol told MTI on Tuesday. Continue »

Budapest, October 30 (MTI) – Economic research firm Ecostat’s business confidence index was practically unchanged at 93 percent in September compared to August, Ecostat told MTI on Tuesday. Continue »

Ottawa, October 30 (MTI) – Speaker of Parliament Katalin Szili led off Tuesday’s negotiations in Canada with a request that Canada terminate its visa requirement for Hungarian nationals. Continue »

Budapest, October 30 (MTI) – Hungary’s Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz met Erwin Proell, Governor of Lower Austria, in Budapest on Tuesday for talks on topical bilateral issues. Continue »

Budapest, October 30 (MTI) – Hungary’s government will submit new rules for multi-year budgets to Parliament in mid-November, Finance Minister Janos Veres told a meeting of the National Association of Employers and Industrialists on Tuesday. Continue »

Budapest, October 30 (MTI) – About 500 bus and truck drivers and maintenance workers demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour in Budapest on Tuesday to protest against what they called discriminative pension rules. Continue »

Budapest, October 30 (MTI) – Hungary decided to open a regional embassy in Tbilisi with a scope to cover Armenia next year, Hungarian Foreign Affairs spokesman Lajos Szelestey told MTI after talks between foreign ministers Kinga Goncz of Hungary and Vardan Oskanian of Armenia in Budapest on Tuesday. Continue »

Brussels, October 30 (MTI) – Hungary supported Austria’s ban on gene-modified products at a vote during a meeting of European Union environment ministers on Tuesday, Environment Minister Gabor Fodor told MTI. Continue »