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Residents gather in Debrecen, Hungary, during a demonstration against a factory that will produce batteries for electric vehicles built by a China-based company on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Residents, environmentalists and opposition politicians are worried that a sprawling battery factory will exacerbate existing environmental problems and use up the country's precious water supplies. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

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As electric cars boom, locals fear Chinese battery plant will harm land in drought-stricken Hungary
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Fri,05/26/23-1:02AM , 441 Reads
DEBRECEN, Hungary (AP) — Just beyond the pastoral gardens and traditional homes of an eastern Hungarian village, a gigaproject of Chinese industry is taking shape.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers the keynote speech at the opening session of Hungary Conservative Political Action Conference Hungary in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, May 4, 2023. The two-day CPAC meeting organized by Center for Fundamental Rights of Hungary features some 60 prestigious foreign speakers from 20 countries and five continents. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

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At CPAC, Hungary's Orban decries LGBTQ+ rights, migration
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Thu,05/04/23-6:12AM , 322 Reads
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's populist prime minister likened liberalism to a “virus” in an opening speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the Hungarian capital on Thursday, painting a picture of a global right-wing movement mobilizing to defeat “progressive elites.”
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Customers purchase food in Budapest's Grand Market Hall on Saturday, April 8, 2023. Food prices have risen dramatically across Europe in recent months, but Hungary is facing the biggest spike. That's hitting consumers hard, forcing them to change what kind of food they buy and how much of it they can afford. Businesses also are rethinking what they sell as food prices in Hungary surged 45% over the year. In the European Union, those costs jumped 19.6%. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

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No fruit, ham a luxury: Hungary food prices spike most in EU
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Fri,04/21/23-1:33AM , 705 Reads
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Magdolna Gozon nibbles spicy green peppers from a fruit and vegetable stall at a sprawling indoor market in Budapest, sampling them to make sure they're hot enough for a soup she's cooking.
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Firefighters and rescue teams search for people in a destroyed building, in Adana, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Nearly two days after the magnitude 7.8 quake struck southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, thinly stretched rescue teams work to pull more people from the rubble of thousands of buildings. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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In earthquake rescues, noisy gear and digging, then silence
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Wed,02/08/23-12:13PM , 237 Reads
ADANA, Turkey (AP) — They lifted slabs of cement with enormous cranes and smashed rubble with jackhammers. Then, they stopped.

Silence.
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