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Slovakian Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak (L) is welcomed by his Hungarian counterpart Janos Martonyi (R) at the Hungarian Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Budapest on June 1, 2012. The Slovakian guest is on a one-day working visit to Hungary.

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    JANOWITZ was born April 2, 1912, in Hungary and came to America as a young lady. She met and married Irving Janowitz (now deceased) and lived in Rockville Centre before moving to Oceanside . Helen and Irving operated a retail fur store in Rockville Centre   Read more »

  • UN slams Hungary for abuse of asylum seekers

    -- They say they came to Hungary to escape brutality, war or the threat of being put to death in their home countries. Instead, they are serving untold months behind bars without ever being convicted of a crime.Migrants who arrive from violence-ridden countries   Read more »

  • Sarkozy the fighter in battle of his career

    intensity and ambition.His biographers have suggested that Sarkozy, the middle of three brothers in a family with origins in Hungary , had something to prove: To his father, who divorced his mother when Nicolas was young and drew the son's scorn; to the upper-middle   Read more »

  • Hungary: Man suspected of killing 4 relatives

    (AP) -- Hungarian police say they have captured a man suspected of killing four relatives and injuring three others with a machete.Police from Fejer County say Csanad Jutas Horvath, 24, is suspected of killing his father, brother and grandparents and of in   Read more »

  • Experts: Hungary president's thesis largely copied

    (AP) -- An investigating committee says the Hungarian president's 1992 doctoral thesis is based on "unusually extensive" translations from other authors, but blames the university for failing to notice the duplications.A five-member committee at Budapest '   Read more »

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About Hungary

Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország; IPA: [mɒɟɒrorsaːɡ]; listen (help·info)), officially in English the Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság listen (help·info), literally Hungarian Republic), is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia.

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