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Virginia health board approves regulations for transgender athletes in women’s sports
Washington Examiner
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August 18, 2025
Virginia is moving ahead with a petition that could ban transgender women from playing in women’s sports and changing in women’s locker rooms at the state regulatory level.The Virginia Board of Health voted to approve a petition calling for the...
Budapest Airport welcomes 2 Hungarian astronauts as small country makes big impact
Daily News Hungary
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August 18, 2025
“We Hungarians—coming from institutions across the country, from all walks of life and backgrounds, but united by a common goal and sense of duty—have once again shown the world our talent after 45 years,” astronaut Tibor Kapu said on Monday at...
Hungarian astronaut returns home after ISS mission
Xinhua News Agency
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BUDAPEST, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Hungarian astronaut Tibor Kapu returned to Budapest on Monday to a hero's welcome after completing a mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Kapu arrived at a Hungarian Defence Forces aircraft at Liszt...
Astronaut Returns to Budapest After ISS Mission
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) Hungarian astronaut Tibor Kapu made a triumphant return to Budapest on Monday, receiving a hero’s welcome following his mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Kapu touched down at Liszt Ferenc International Airport,...
Barbara Palvin shares secret health battle after undergoing surgery
The Independent
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August 18, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Barbara Palvin Reveals She Had Life-Changing Surgery for Endometriosis and Shares Candid Photos from Hospital
AOL
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Barbara Palvin/Instagram Barbara Palvin; Palvin after surgeryNEED TO KNOW Barbara Palvin revealed that she recently underwent surgery for endometriosis in a candid post on Instagram on Aug. 17 The model , 31, said that she had been experiencing...
Budapest’s iconic thermal baths to sadly close for years due to massive renovation
Daily News Hungary
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August 17, 2025
One of Budapest’s world-famous thermal baths, the Gellért, will close their doors on 1 October 2025 for a multi-year renovation project. Anyone wishing to enjoy the unique ambience of the Art Nouveau interiors and thermal pools has only a few...
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Barbara Palvin Reveals She Had Life-Changing Surgery for Endometriosis and Shares Candid Photos from Hospital By Toria Sheffield
People - New York
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NEED TO KNOW Barbara Palvin revealed that she recently underwent surgery for endometriosis in a candid post on Instagram on Aug. 17 The model , 31, said that she had been experiencing symptoms for years but had assumed that was just how her body...
Barbara Palvin Speaks Out on Secret Health Battle for the First Time
TMZ
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August 17, 2025
Published August 17, 2025 9:35 AM PDT Barbara Palvin is getting real with her fans about a health struggle she's kept private -- revealing she recently underwent surgery for endometriosis after years of painful, debilitating periods. The...
Hungarian Nobel laureate Karikó slams Kennedy, implying that he acts as if he worked for China
Daily News Hungary
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August 16, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of the late President Kennedy, has long criticised mRNA vaccines—including those shown to be effective against COVID-19. In a recent move, he has withdrawn approximately $500 million (around 169 billion forints) in...
War in Ukraine: Tragic death of Hungarian from Transcarpathia, Trump seeks trilateral meeting
Daily News Hungary
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August 17, 2025
The latest Hungarian casualty from Transcarpathia in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was conscripted two years ago. He had lived with his family in Kincseshomok and is survived by his widow and young son, while the exact circumstances and timing of...
The Era of Crusades — The Kingdom of Hungary and the French Army
Hungarian Conservative
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August 17, 2025
Historians who are susceptible to myths tend to view Charlemagne’s veneration in Central Europe as a continuous phenomenon. In fact, based on the Hun–Hungarian kinship, they would like to attribute the Hungarians’ pilgrimages to Charlemagne’s...
2 Tourists Suffer Fatal Medical Conditions in Separate N. Greece Beaches
To Vima
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August 17, 2025
Two separate deaths were reported within hours on Saturday in two northern Greece beaches, with the victims being a 48-year-old man and 65-year-old man, respectively. The first incident was reported at a beach in Perea, east of the city of...
Yes, cruises can be good for you — take these 10 wellness sailings
The Times
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Wellness is catching up with excess nowadays on cruise ships, although there’s still plenty of the latter if you want it. But if fitness, yoga, meditation and healthy eating is more your thing than calorific cocktails and bottomless buffets,...
Crusaders’ Clinic part of everyday family life for Lauren
The Clare Champion
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August 16, 2025
Lauren Norton Brodie can still remember standing on a road in Kilkee when she was seven wearing an orange teeshirt that almost covered her ankles collecting money for the Clare Crusaders’ Clinic run by her family. Twenty years later, she is still...
Hungarian embassy in Prague painted in red by protesters
Daily News Hungary
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August 14, 2025
Two Czech civic activists, known by the pseudonyms “Pražský Pérák” and “Bohemian Queen,” poured red paint over the fence of the Hungarian embassy in Prague. Through this symbolic act, they sought to draw attention to the Hungarian government’s...
French Listeria outbreak spreads to other countries; 2 patients dead
Food Safety News
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August 19, 2025
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has weighed in on a multi-country outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes with 25 cases. France has 21 infections since December 2024, including 18 since June 2025. Two people died. Patients...
‘How could we not be Hungarians?’ — A Conversation with Elizabeth Szabó Vos from Indiana
Hungarian Conservative
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August 16, 2025
Liz is a third-generation Hungarian American raised in Youngstown, Ohio, studying and living in Nebraska, and settled in Evansville, Indiana, in 2006. She understands some Hungarian, but doesn’t speak it fluently; nevertheless, she considers...
Freezing the EU-Israel Association Agreement: Symbolism at a cost
The Times of Israel
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Calls to suspend the EU–Israel Association Agreement in response to the ongoing conflict in Gaza have grown louder in Brussels and other European capitals. On paper, this might look like a principled stance on human rights. In practice, however,...
Why did so many women in a tiny Hungarian village poison their husbands?
The Big Issue
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August 16, 2025
The women of Nagyrév were desperate. In this small Hungarian village, under the shadow of World War I, many women were struggling to survive. They were suffering at the hands of their husbands – some of whom were veterans with PTSD, some addicted...