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  • Drug Dens in Hungary Getting Shut Down, Police Have New 'Extremely Powerful Tool' to Fight Drugs

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    • 19 Nov 2025 8:12 AM

    The closure of drug dens is underway, and police will be allowed to shut down shops and premises suspected of being involved in drug trafficking for up to three months, the government commissioner responsible for eradicating drug trafficking said.

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  • Sultan of Brunei Receives Hungarian Order of Merit

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    • 19 Nov 2025 8:08 AM

    President Tamas Sulyok met Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei, in his office on Tuesday, and presented to him the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, Grand Cross with the chain and star.

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    • 19 Nov 2025 7:02 AM

    The prosecutor's office of Budapest's sixth and seventh districts has pressed charges against a Montenegrin and a Croatian national that had deliberately reversed a stolen car into the shop window of a luxury outlet on Andrassy Avenue and looted goods from the shop.

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    • 18 Nov 2025 6:46 AM

    "Brussels' migration policy is suicide. Hungary's national government has put a stop to illegal migration and remains committed to doing so in the future," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said on Monday, adding that for that reason, Hungary was calling for immediate humanitarian aid to Sudan.

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    Union: 'Christian Culture' Ideology in Hungarian Kindergartens 'Unacceptable'.

    • 14 Nov 2025 8:27 AM

    The PDSZ teacher union has slammed what it called "ideological interference" in kindergarten education "under the pretext of Christian culture" as "unacceptable", emphasising that kindergarten education "cannot be a venue for political propaganda or religious conversion".

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    In Ukraine "they have uncovered a war mafia linked to President Zelensky in a thousand ways," Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Facebook.

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