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  • Video: Hungary Defeats Wales In Euro 2020 Qualifier

    • 13 Jun 2019 8:43 AM

    A late Máté Patkai goal gave Hungary a deserved three points against an underwhelming Wales team in the Groupama Aréna in Budapest on Tuesday evening, a result which keeps Marco Rossi's team top of Euro 2020 qualifying group E.

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    • 13 Jun 2019 7:26 AM

    Billed as Hungary's 'Premium Music Festival, this 16-year old entertainment fest is held in the west of the country each year in, yep, Veszprém.

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    • 12 Jun 2019 11:05 PM

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    • 12 Jun 2019 11:49 AM

    Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra is organising the fifth Dancing on the Square programme in 2019. At the free, open-air concert hundreds of children coming from underprivileged areas of Hungary are dancing together – this time to the 7th symphony of Beethoven.

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    • 12 Jun 2019 8:37 AM

    Shocking video just released shows an out-of-control rally car crashing into a crowd of spectators in Totkomlos, South-East Hungary.

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  • Video: Wreck Of Sightseeing Boat Raised In Budapest - Timelapse Film Shows Recovery

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    Salvage crews have finally recovered the wreck of the boat which capsized two weeks ago on the Danube under Margaret Bridge with a group of South Korean tourists on board.

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