Sources: Reuters
The Canada men's national water polo team withdraws from the remainder of the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, due to COVID-19 cases within the team. 2022-06-24
Israel fires several missiles towards Damascus, Syria, killing three Syrian soldiers. 2022-02-24
Hungary reports a record 12,637 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1.045 million. 2021-11-24
Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, warns Hungary to repeal its controversial amendments to its Child Protection Act, which bans the dissemination of content in schools deemed to "promote homosexuality", or else face "the full force of EU law". Poland is expected to block any attempt to impose the maximum EU penalty of suspending Hungary's voting rights. 2021-07-7
Hungary reports a record 189 new deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 5,513. 2020-12-4
A day after a Russian sponsored ceasefire with a rebel group agreed a halt of fighting in the last opposition enclave in the capital, Syrian government airplanes and artillery strike rebel-held eastern Damascus suburbs and Ghouta with barrel bombs, killing at least five civilians in the towns of Hamouriya and Zalamka with several case of suffocation from rockets filled with chlorine that were fired at the front lines of Jobar and Ain Terma. 2017-08-19
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, when discussing management of the flow of migrants with the press, talks about "technical security" measures but insists there will be "no fence" at the Slovenian border. This, in contrast to Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner who earlier spoke of plans for a "fence" on the border to Slovenia. Austria has been one of the more vocal countries criticizing Hungary's decision to build a fence along its border with Serbia. 2015-10-28
2011–2012 Syrian uprising: According to Syrian state media, 26 people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus. The Syrian opposition blames the Syrian government for orchestrating the attack, and alleges that they have leaked information from security forces that Aleppo is next. 2012-01-6
Clashes take place between Syrian forces and protesters in Damascus with twelve deaths reported. 2011-12-30
Hungary races against time in its efforts to construct an emergency dam to defeat the Ajka alumina plant accident. 2010-10-10