Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | yesterday
The few hundred rioters, many of them mummed, started to walk in opposed direction to the 1000-1500 participants of the Gay Pride march. Police erected cordons along the way, which was voefully inadequate: the rioters attacked police with Molotov cocktails and torn-up pavement, managed to burned police cars at the very beginning, and threw bananas and tomatoes at the marchers. Police at least caught...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Hundreds of right-wing extremists have hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at a gay pride parade in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. Police needed water cannon and tear gas to break up the neo-Nazi assailants. 45 people were arrested. Ambulance workers said at least eight people were hurt. Two prominent Hungarian politicians were attacked in the violence. Last week, far-right extremists disrupted gay...
German Joys (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
I just got back from a trip to Budapest, and I'm in love. An elegant, reserved city which has largely been spared the sort of shrill touristy excrescences that have cheapened many other Central European cities. I saw a performance...
Box Turtle Bulletin (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to Agence France-Presse: Forty-five people were taken into custody and 10 others were injured in clashes between police and homophobes during a gay rights march in the Hungarian capital Saturday, reports said. About 450 people took part in the march in central Budapest when extremists began throwing explosive devices, eggs, cobblestones and bottles at police and [...]
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jump to the full entry & travel map Budapest, Hungary Normally when i go to Asia, i always get a bad case of the monopoly money syndrome...but apparently this happens to me in hungary as well! When the demonations of money are so large (1 beer costs 500 forint), it doesn't seem like real money, and this can be very dangerous! Something very popular to do in Budapest is to go to the bath house. ...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The 3rd World View reflects on the various reactions from participants at the GV Summit in Budapest.
Spinneyhead (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Terror House, Budapest , originally uploaded by spinneyhead . A museum about Hungary's Communist years, based in the former headquarters. Not a very merry place. And Alex locked me in one of the cells, the bastard.
RConversation (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Photo by Neha Viswanathan: A small subset of the Global Voices bloggers who met in Budapest. (Apologies in advance for the length of this post. I've decided to subject my readers to this even-longer-than-usual "brain dump" because at least a...
Budapest daily photo (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
This photo with the blue sky behind the electric pole symbolises to me the summer in a way. A hot summer that has arrived to Budapest already:)
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Dozens of protesters in Budapest have clashed with police escorting a march by gays and lesbians through the center of Hungary's capital city. Police said at least seven people were injured including a journalist and two police officers and a total of 45 people were taken into custody. Stefan Bos reports for VOA that Saturday's violence followed several earlier attacks against gay groups in Budapest....
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
BUDAPEST, Hungary | Dozens of protesters clashed with police escorting a march by gays and lesbians through the capital Saturday. Two officers were injured and at least 45 demonstrators detained, police said.
PalmAddicts (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
[From JB Budapest, Hungary] The iPhone3G launch date is approaching rapidly, and I was thinking about what will happen once all that people (who will obviously start lining up days before to get their hands on their favorite Apple branded...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
BUDAPEST isn't the only gem along the Danube. NEIL CLARK falls for Hungary's medieval capital of Esztergom, beloved of its most famous king.
OTB News (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian riot police used water cannon and tear gas on Saturday to stop far-right extremists from throwing petrol bombs and breaking up the annual gay parade in the capital Budapest.
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian riot police used water cannon and tear gas on Saturday to stop far-right extremists from throwing petrol bombs and breaking up the annual gay parade in the capital Budapest.
