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20th August - Hungary's biggest National Holiday Historical Background

Stephen (István in Hungarian) was Hungary’s first king and he laid the foundation of the state by converting the nomad and pagan Magyar people (Hungarians) into Christianity. Until the end of the 10th century the seven Hungarian tribes often attacked and robbed Western European nations. After a major defeat in 955, the Hungarian leaders decided to give up the raids, focus on settling down and found a strong state. István realized that he can only achieve this by converting Hungarians into the Roman Catholic religion. He received a crown from Pope Sylvester II and became Hungary’s first king in 1000 AD. The Holy Crown has survived the coming centuries and it is now Hungary's most precious treasure. You can view the Holy Crown in Budapest Parliament. King Stephen consolidated his power. He built churches all around the country and invited Catholic priests to help to lay down the foundations of Christianity. István formed new, strict legislations instead of the former pagan rules and took administrative measures to organize the country. As a result of King Stephen's efforts Hungary became a strong state and a protector of Western Europe during the Medieval Ages. Stephen was canonized on 20th of August in 1083 and became the patron of Hungary. For the canonization procedure King Stephen’s remains were exhumed. According to the story his right hand was found as fresh as the day he was buried. The hand was detached and since then everybody can view our first king's mummified right in St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest. 20th August became Hungary’s national day and stayed that way until 1945, when Communist leaders King Stephen's statue in prohibited celebrations due to the religious nature of the holiday. his hometown, Esztergom In 1990 the Hungarian Parliament declared 20th August national holiday again.

Saint Stephen I (Hungarian: I. (Szent) István) (Latin: Sanctus Stephanus) (Esztergom, 967/969/975 – 15 August 1038, Esztergom-Szentkirály or Székesfehérvár, Hungary), born Vajk, was Grand Prince of the Hungarians (997–1000) and the first King of Hungary (1000–1038). He greatly expanded Hungarian control over the Carpathian Basin during his lifetime, broadly established Christianity in the region, and is generally considered to be the founder of the Kingdom of Hungary. Pope Gregory VII canonized Stephen I, together with his son, Saint Emeric of Hungary and Bishop Gerard of Csanád, on 20 August 1083. Stephen became one of the most popular saints in Hungary, and 20 August, which was also his feast day until 1687, is celebrated as a state holiday commemorating the foundation of the nation.

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He was born as Vajk in the town of Esztergom. His father was Grand Prince Géza of Hungary; his mother was Sarolt, daughter of Gyula of Transylvania a Hungarian nobleman who had been baptized in Greece. Though Sarolt was baptized into the Orthodox Christian faith at her father's court in Transylvania by the Greek bishop Hierotheos, she did not persist in the religion. According to his legends, Vajk was baptized a Christian by Saint Adalbert of Prague. He was given the baptismal name Stephen (István) in honour of the original early Christian Saint Stephen. The baptised name was possibly chosen on purpose, as it means not only "crown" as mentioned, but also "norm, standard" in Hebrew. So the mission of St. Stephen was to grant a norm to Hungary through the Holy Crown (also called the Doctrine of the Holy Crown). However, another reason could be thought of: that Stephen, as fiancé of a woman from the diocese of Passau, simply wanted to do honour to the then-major saint of Passau, Saint Stephen, after whom the Passau Cathedral is named up to today. When Stephen reached adolescence, Great Prince Géza convened an assembly where they decided that Stephen would follow his father as the Apostolic King of Hungary monarch of the Hungarians. This decision, however, contradicted the Magyar tribal custom that gave the right of succession to the eldest close relative of the deceased ruler. Stephen married Giselle of Bavaria, the daughter of Henry II the Wrangler in or after 995. By this marriage, he became the brother-in-law of the future Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor. Giselle arrived at her husband's court accompanied by German knights.

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According to Decree 1/1995. (IX. 28.) ME, the Prime Minister of Hungary can confer the Minorities Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the status of minorities in the spheres of public life, economics, science, culture or education. The two categories of the award are for Minorities within Hungary and for Hungarians beyond the Borders, and can be awarded to Hungarian and non- Hungarian persons and organisations carrying out outstanding work in the fields of public life, education, culture, the church, science, mass communication, or autonomous economic organisation. The award is accompanied by a certificate, a commemorative plaque and one million forints – for an individual recipient or an organisation. The awards ceremony for the Hungarians beyond the Borders category will take place on the eve of the national day, on 19 August in the Delegation Hall of the Parliament Building. The list of recipients can be read below on 20 August.

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Україна, transliterated: Ukrayina, [ukrɑˈjinɑ];Russian: Украи́на; Crimean Tatar: Ukraina) is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the largest contiguous country on the European continent. Ukraine borders the Russian Federation to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively. Established by the Varangians in the 9th century, the medieval state of Kievan Rus', the first East Slavic state, emerged as a powerful nation in the middle ages until it disintegrated in the 12th century. By the middle of the 14th century, Ukrainian territories were under the rule of three external powers—the Golden Horde, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Kingdom of Poland. After the Great Northern War (1700–1721) Ukraine was divided between a number of regional powers and, by the 19th century, the largest part of Ukraine was integrated into the Russian Empire with the rest under Austro-Hungarian control. After a chaotic period of incessant warfare and several attempts at independence (1917–21) following World War I and the Russian Civil War, it emerged on December 30, 1922 as one of the founding republics of the Soviet Union. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic's territory was enlarged westward shortly before and after World War II, and southwards in 1954 with the Crimea transfer. In 1945, the Ukrainian SSR became one of the founding members of the United Nations. Ukraine became independent again after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Herewith began a period of transition to a market economy, in which Ukraine was stricken with an eight-year recession. Since then though, the economy experienced a high increase in GDP growth. Ukraine was caught up in the worldwide economic crisis in 2008 and the economy plunged. GDP fell 20% The Bap sm o G and from spring 2008 to spring 2009, P nce V ad m ed o then leveled off as analysts com- he adop on o Ch s pared the magnitude of the down- an y n K evan Rus turn to the worst years of economic depression during the early 1990s. Ukraine is a unitary state composed of 24 oblasts (provinces), one autonomous republic(Crimea), and two cities with special status: Kiev, its capital and largest city, and Sevastopol, which houses the Russian Black Sea Fleet under a leasing agreement. Ukraine is a republicunder a semi-presidential system with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine continues to maintain the second largestmilitary in Europe, after that of Russia. The country is home to 46 million people, 77.8 percent of whom are ethnic Ukrainians, with sizable minorities of Russians (17%), Belarusians and Romanians. The Ukrainian language is the official language in Ukraine. Russian is also widely spoken. The dominant religion in the country is Eastern Orthodox Christianity, which has heavily influenced Ukrainian architecture, literature and music.

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settled around Ladoga and Novgorod, then gradually moved southward eventually reaching Kiev about 880. The Kievan Rus' included the western part of modern Ukraine, Belarus, with larger part of it situated on the territory of modern Russia. According to the Primary Chronicle the Rus' elite initially consisted of Varangians from Scandinavia. During the 10th and 11th he Zapo ozh an centuries, it became the "Rep y o o Su an largest and most powerful Cossacks state in Europe. In the fol- Mehmed V o he O oman lowing centuries, it laid the Emp e "Pa n ed by ya foundation for the national Rep n om 1880 o 1891 identity of Ukrainians and Russians. Kiev, the capital of modern Ukraine, became the most important city of the Rus'. The Varangians later became assimilated into the local Slavic population and became part of the Rus' first dynasty, the Rurik Dynasty. Kievan Rus' was composed of several principalities ruled by the interrelatedRurikid Princes. The seat of Kiev, the most prestigious and influential of all principalities, became the subject of many rivalries among Rurikids as the most valuable prize in their quest for power. The Golden Age of Kievan Rus' began with the reign of Vladimir the Great (980–1015), who turned Rus' toward Byzantine Christianity. During the reign of his son, Yaroslav the Wise (1019–1054), Kievan Rus' reached the zenith of its cultural development and military power. This was followed by the state's increasing fragmentation as the relative importance of regional powers rose again. After a final resurgence under the rule of Vladimir Monomakh (1113–1125) and his son Mstislav (1125–1132), Kievan Rus' finally disintegrated into separate principalities following Mstislav's death. In the 11th and 12th centuries, constant incursions by nomadic Turkic tribes, such as the Pechenegs and the Kipchaks, caused a massivemigration of Slavic populations to the safer, heavily forested regions of the north. The 13th century Mongol invasion devastated Kievan Rus'. Kiev was totally destroyed in 1240. On the Ukrainian territory, the state of Kievan Rus' was succeeded by the principalities of Halychand Volodymyr-Volynskyi, which were merged into the state of Galicia-Volhynia.

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In the mid-14th century, Galicia-Volhynia was subjugated by Casimir III of Poland, while the heartland of Rus', including Kiev, fell under the Gediminas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania after the Battle on the Irpen' River. Following the 1386 Union of Krevo, a dynastic union between Poland and Lithuania, much of what became northern Ukraine was controlled by the increasingly Slavicised local Lithuanian nobles as part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. By 1569, the Union of Lublin formed the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a significant part of Ukrainian territory was moved from Lithuanian rule to the Polish administration, as it was transferred to the Polish Crown. Under the cultural and political pressure of Polonisation much upper class of Polish Ruthenia (another term for the land of Rus) converted to Catholicism and became indistinguishable from the Polish nobility. Thus, the commoners, deprived of their native protectors among Rus nobility, turned for protection to the Cossacks, who remained fiercely Orthodox at all times and tended to turn to violence against those they perceived as enemies, particularly the Polish state and its representatives. In the mid-17th century, a Cossack military quasi-state, the Zaporozhian Host, was established by the Dnieper Cossacks and the Ruthenian peasants fleeing Polish serfdom. Poland had little real control of this land, yet they found the Cossacks to be a useful fighting force against the Turks and Tatars, and at times the two allied in military campaigns. However, the continued enserfment of peasantry by thePolish nobility emphasized by the Commonwealth's fierce exploitation of the workforce, and most importantly, the suppression of the Orthodox Church pushed the allegiances of Cossacks away from Poland. Their aspiration was to have representation in Polish Sejm, recognition of Orthodox traditions and the gradual expansion of the Cossack Registry. These were all vehemently denied by the Polish nobility. The Cossacks w w eventually turned for protection to Orthodox Russia, a deci w w P O C U B K m C C mm w P C m w M R C U w T P H m P W A P R P H A R W U G A w U w w R Em K w w E E T C m C m D G M w T R T w F m C m T m m S A O S m T w m T m U T w w m m S C m T m m R w M P M W w T C m K w R Em M T E B K m C C mm w P C m U w M R C H m w T P R P W A P P H A R W U G w A w U w R Em T C m K w w E E C m D G M w T R T w F m C m T m m S A O S m T w m T m U T w w m m S C m T m m R w M P M W w T C m K w R Em M T E

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The ceremonial parade will start by the flight of the transport helicopters and Gripen group of the Hungarian Army over the Danube, to be accompanied by the appearance of motorboats on the water flying the national flag of Hungary aboard. After this show of a few minutes the historical ships will leave Margit Bridge towards Chain Bridge, showing a clear sight for spectators on the banks. The spectacular props attached to the ships cover five historic eras. The era of Saint Stephen, Renaissance, the Reform Era, the Art Nouveau of the turn of the century and our time. The props affixed to the Moscow type ships had to comply with strict requirements. The total weight of the ships could not exceed 5 000 kg, and the applicants had to ensure a clear line of sight for the pilot of the ship and room for movement for the crew. The ships will be making a lap of honour around the building of Parliament, while on the balcony of Hunter’s Room the Guard of Honour of the Republic Guard Regiment will be giving a salute to the ships - symbolically, to Hungarian history - by flying the historical flags and the national flag of Hungary. After the honour ceremony the ships will form a line and carry on their journey in the direction of the Chain Bridge. During this a convoy of 8 ships will float up on the Danube from the direction of Petőfi Bridge, with almost seven hundred youths in state foster care, who will enjoy a close view of the event. At the Chain Bridge the convoy will fall in line behind the historical ships and continue their journey towards Petőfi Bridge. After the ships have left, at 4.20 p.m. a motorboat show and race will start. After the placement of the buoys, a spectacular show and race will start, with international competitors. During the show the announcer will keep the spectators informed on what is happening on the water. The program will continue in the air at 4.40 p.m. The air show will start with the MD-500 helicopter group of the Riot Police, then we can witness a historical moment: a Polikarpov PO-2, a one-engine biplane designed in 1924 and manufactured in 1954 will tow the legendary “Cimbora” type glider. They will be followed by a hang glider group of 5 of the Hungarian Motor Gliding Federation, then spectators on the bank will get a chance to watch a group of 3 of Hajdu Trió Apollo Fox. For one flyover the first aircraft used in public civil aviation, Li-2 will be introduced, then in the group of MALÉV Flight Club we can watch a Z-142, a Cessna-172 and a Maule. The spectacular rally will be made even more exciting by an aerobatics show, Tamás Illés advanced European and world championship silver medalist pilot will perform a spectacular show with his Edge 540 aircraft, after which we can see a group of the very popular Cessna aircraft, as the individual of Centroplane kft. This group will be followed by a group composed of one of the state-of-the-art airplanes of our time, a group of twin engine, four seat DA-42 of Pannon Air Service utility airplanes. Together with Trener Kft., the college of Nyíregyháza has trained lots of pilots for the Hungarian flight community, their introduction this time will be a group of 5 of Z-142 aircraft, a sight that matches the traditions of the college and the company. Group of MD-500 helicopters of the Riot Police Group of 5 Apollo gliders Hajdu Trio Group (Apollo Fox) Group of Malév airplanes Group of Centroplane 3 DA-42 group (Pannon Air) Group of Z-142 of Nyíregyháza

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Sharif has ordered foolproof security arrangements throughout the province on Yaum-e-Ali (RA), directing police and other law-enforcement agencies to remain alert and senior police officers to pay field visits to ensure strict implementation of the security plan evolved for the purpose. He was addressing a meeting to review security arrangements on Yaume-Shahadat of Hazrat Ali (RA) and law and order situation in the province, here on Monday. Senior advisor Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah Khan, MPA Col. (r) Shuja Khanzada, the chief secretary, the inspector general of police, the capital city police officer, Lahore, and senior officers concerned were also present. Addressing the meeting, the chief minister said that Pakistan was passing through the most critical phase of its history and the enemies were bent upon damaging the country. He said that, under the situation, promotion of religious harmony, national solidarity and brotherhood was the need of the hour. He said that the people would have to forget their petty differences and gather on a single platform to foil the nefarious designs of enemies. Every citizen will have to play his due role for peace in the country, he added. He ordered foolproof security arrangements on the pattern of those made on Muharram-ul-Haram. Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa informed the meeting that effective security arrangements on the pattern of Muharram-ul-Haram had been made for maintaining peace on Yaum-e-Ali and provincial ministers had been sent to their respective divisions for the purpose. Chief Secretary Nasir Mehmood Khan Khosa said that security arrangements had been finalized for Yaum-e-Ali (RA) and instructions had been issued to all commissioners and district coordination officers in this regard. Inspector General Police Javed Iqbal gave a briefing regarding overall law and order situation in the province and the measures taken against criminal elements.

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mania Friendship Association organised the screening of a Romanian film Orient Express here on Thursday as part of the mainframe of its cultural activity in Pakistan and also to revive the existing Pakistan-Romania Friendship Association (PRFA). PRFA was re-activated at the initiative of Emilian Ion, the ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to Pakistan, with the support of Pakistani friends, who have agreed to be part of this common effort, aiming to boost the bilateral relations between Pakistan and Romania. The association is independently led by a Board of Governors and it is focused on organising social and cultural events that will maintain and develop the excellent relationship between the two countries. The screening of Orient Express is the first activity of the new PRFA at the initiative of the Embassy of Romania in Islamabad. The screening of the Romanian film at Cinepax turned out to be successful event well attended by the business community, diplomatic missions, Creme de la Creme of the society, young Pakistanis, members of the association, corporate people and all major print and electronic media. Speaking on the occasion, the Romanian ambassador said that one of the main objectives of the Pakistan Romania Friendship Association is to introduce, share and promote the culture of Romania in Pakistan. After this first step of projecting the Romanian movie Orient Express , similar events will subsequently follow. The PRFA team comprises (President) Syed Ahmed, (Sr. Vice President) Wazir Ahmad Jogezai, (Vice President) Anwar Moin, (Executive Secretary General) Zehra Valliani, (Secretary General) Atif Farooqi, (Media Advisor) Ansar Mahmood Bhatti, (Legal Advisor) Amjad Kamal Butt. Orient Express is a 2004 Romanian film Directed by Sergui Nicolaescu. The film was Romania s submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Film Category, but was not accepted as a nominee. Released in 2004, Orient Express is a 116-minute movie supposedly remembered as a renaissance for Romanian cinematography. Directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu, the movie s overall has a taste for anyone who loves crime and mystery. The theme moves around Prince Andrei Morudzi, who at an old age, retreats to his castle in Romania, during the two world wars, after having lead an eventful youth. There he is seen upon as a rare bird by the local folk, due to his strange attitude towards life and his exquisite manners, which don t fit in the way of life of the villagers. In the end, despite trying to distance himself from the local people, he can t but influence their humble existences. The action of the movie takes place in 1935, somewhere in Romania, where Prince Andrei Morudzi, the last descendant of an aristocratic family has been living for 16 years in total isolation in his old castle in Moruzeni town, after he had spent most of his fortune on travelling, gambling and parties during his agitated youth years. His loneliness, comforted only by his trusted servant Costache is disturbed by the ghosts of the past, the memories of the youth age and the compulsive desire to ride his horse, every day, to the railroad nearby, just to see the Orient Express train, which he frequently took to Paris in the early years. Due to his strange attitude towards life and his exquisite manners, which do not fit the lifestyle of the villagers, he is looked upon as a rare bird by the local people. Trying to live again a normal life, the prince gets in contact with some families from the next town, and unintentionally, creates a drama.

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ily’s 40-year rule, Assad has deployed tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and helicopters to crush the uprising that began after revolts ousted the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt and sparked a conflict in Libya. Today’s crackdown left several people injured in Daraa, a southern area, and the city of Aleppo, Merhi said. Security was tight as Muslims attended the midday Friday prayers, which have been followed by weekly protests during the five months of unrest. Forces prevented those under 55 from attending prayers today in Daraa, Al Arabiya television said, citing unidentified activists. The citizens of Syria “have braved ferocious brutality at the hands of their government,” Obama said. “For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside.” U.S. Sanctions: Obama’s declaration was his first explicit call for Assad to give up power since the uprising started. He also signed an executive order freezing any Syrian government assets in the U.S. and banning import to the U.S. of petroleum products of Syrian origin. The order prohibits people in the U.S. from doing business with Syria. The EU is adding 20 Syrian individuals or entities to those targeted for an asset freeze and travel ban. A proposal is being prepared for consideration by the council next week for an embargo on Syrian crude oil and suspension of technical assistance of the European Investment Bank. “The European Union continues to aim at putting an end to the brutal repression and assisting the Syrian people to achieve their legitimate aspirations,” EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in the statement. UN Action: U.S. and Western powers in the

UN Security Council will introduce a draft resolution in the coming days that includes measures to increase pressure on the government, U.K. Deputy Ambassador Philip Parham said, without giving specifics. Miguel Berger, Germany’s deputy ambassador, said it will include sanctions. A UN team will go to Syria this weekend on a four-day mission to assess the humanitarian situation, emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos told reporters. She said the government has pledged “full access” for the team. Marc Ginsberg, a former U.S. ambassador to Morocco, was among experts on the region who said the U.S. action will do little by itself to weaken Assad. Analysts and administration officials said pressure will increase if coordinated sanctions cut off enough Syrian oil exports to affect government finances or if other nations empower opponents inside Syria. About 90 percent of its oil exports go to Europe, according to the U.S. Declining Production: Syria, whose output is declining, produces about 385,000 barrels of crude a day and has the Middle East’s ninthlargest reserves, according to data from BP Plc. Further sanctions at the UN level may be hindered by Russian resistance. Russia opposes calls on Assad to step down, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said today on its website. Assad needs time to implement promised changes in Syria, the ministry said, while calling for a halt to all violence in the country. “We don’t share the point of view of the U.S. and EU about President Assad and will continue to follow our consistent and principled line on Syria,” the ministry said. “Russia has been a longstanding ally of Syria

and is no hurry to see the regime fall,” said Chris Phillips, an analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit in London. In addition to wanting to defend the right of states to deal with internal problems without outside interference, Russia and China “feel quite betrayed over what happened in Libya and believe the Western states have overstepped their mandate with helping the rebels,” Phillips said. “Russia has been building a base in Syria for its navy in the Mediterranean and the Syrian regime in many ways is Russia’s closest ally, serving a key strategic purpose,” he added. Limited Options: Obama’s choices since the violence began have been limited by “how complicated and uncertain” the situation is in Syria, Russia and China’s resistance to sanctions and how Iran or terrorists could react, said Anthony Cordesman, a military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Direct intervention by the U.S. would risk forcing Arab and other Muslim states to support Assad, he said. “You would see it be popular in the United States and Israel, but it would not have achieved any meaningful strategic effect.” Even now, Cordesman said, Assad “doesn’t care what people around him or countries around him think,” and he could hold on to power for another year or more. “We have absolutely no idea of what will happen if Assad goes,” he said. In his statement, Obama said the U.S. “cannot and will not impose this transition” for the Syrian people, who have expressed “their strong desire that there not be foreign intervention in their movement.”

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2,000 citizens. The official view is that the state is saving Syria from vicious gangs of criminals. State television reports that events are proceeding as they should. Even Saudi Arabia and the Arab League have criticized Assad's use of force. Barack Obama wants him to resign. So far, however, he remains committed to the homicidal style that kept his father's Baath government in office for 29 years. Last Saturday about 40 people with antiAssad banners held a peaceful demonstration outside the embassy of Syria in Ottawa. They all appeared to be Syrians, according to the Ottawa Citizen reporter. They were talking about the monstrous government that's ruling their homeland and the attempts by pro-Assad operatives in Canada to intimidate them. But on that occasion, where were all the Canadian-born experts on the Middle East, those vociferous and selfrighteous moralists, who come out of the woodwork every time Israel appears to be in violation of some UN resolution or strikes back against an outrage like the killing of the bus passengers on Thursday near Eilat? Where, during the Syrian protest, were the massed student armies from York University and Concordia and the Ontario Institute for

Studies in Education? Where were the legions of academics and trade unionists who are always ready to declare what policy should be followed by the wise and the virtuous? Where, for that matter, were Dykes and Trans People for Palestine, who make such a great noise in Toronto and whose website proudly declares they support everyone's rights? It happens that the answers to these rhetorical questions are the same in each case: They were all at work on their next Israeli Apartheid campaign. The truth is that leftish Canadians have only one interest in the Middle East, the struggle between Palestinians and Israelis. That appears to be their entire foreign policy. They insist they are not prejudiced; they are devoted to human rights, nothing more. But when they consider the world beyond Canada, and choose which cause deserves their energy, they usually select the Palestinians. Their chronically narrow focus on a single conflict is selfblinding. It produces a weird aberration of opinion. When conflict appears elsewhere on the planet, whether it's in Tibet or Sudan or Syria, our left-wing morality police go limp. They exhibit passion on one issue only. How can they be taken seriously?

In Philip Roth's novel Deception, a Czech gentile in London asks her American Jewish lover, "Why does everyone around here hate Israel so much. Can you explain that?" Let's grant, she says, that Israel is a terrible country. Her lover won't grant that but she continues: "Still, there are many countries far more terrible. Yet the hostility to Israel is almost universal among the people I meet." Why? How could that be? He replies that it's an article of faith among the left. They are wedded to unrealistic hopes for social justice and they resent Israel's failure to live up to their ideals. People expect moral perfection from Israel and are appalled when Israel doesn't deliver. Israelis are expected to live by the highest standards and, in difficulty, "turn the other cheek." Roth's male character offers a shrewd point: "You criticize most harshly the people who behave best, or the least badly." That novel appeared 21 years ago. Since then, leftists have grown steadily angrier at Israel. Its strange destiny is to be the only open democracy in the Middle East, the only state with free speech and free judges - and to be nevertheless the favourite enemy of the Canadian left.

organization's charter by systematically and brutally suppressing peaceful civilian protests, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the group's secretary-general. The OIC should send a delegation to Syria to investigate the serious crimes and human rights violations and to express to Syrian authorities in the strongest terms the organization's condemnation of these repressive measures, Human Rights Watch said. The OIC should issue a clear statement that security forces conducting policing may use lethal force only when strictly necessary to protect life, and that killing peaceful protesters is a serious violation of the OIC charter, Human Rights Watch said. "Syria, a member of the OIC since 1970, has for four months now made a mockery of its international obligations with unlawful killings, disappearances, torture, and sieges on whole cities, towns, and villages," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "The OIC should immediately

take action against this member state." The OIC, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and less than an hour's drive from Mecca, the birthplace of Islam, represents states with over 1.5 billion Muslims. With 57 member states, it is the second-largest inter-governmental organization in the world, after the United Nations. Under article 2 of the OIC's charter, "Member states shall uphold and promote, at the national and international levels, good governance, democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law." While Arabs and Muslims celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, which began on August 1, hundreds of thousands of people in Syria are bearing the brunt of a ferocious campaign that has left around 2,000 people dead and tens of thousands wounded or detained. Human Rights Watch said that the OIC is shirking its responsibility under its own charter as hundreds of Syrians are killed, detained, tortured, or wounded on a daily basis,

in what are almost certainly crimes against humanity. The OIC's secretary-general, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, expressed "concern" at civilian casualties on August 2, 2011. But he also equated the victims with the aggressor by calling "upon all parties to preserve the unity and cohesion of their country and to spare it the risks of infighting and external intervention." On August 13, he called for the "Syrian leadership to exercise the highest level of restraint through an immediate halt of the use of force to quell the public demonstrations." But the OIC has not gone beyond these statements in addressing the attacks on peaceful protesters in Syria. "The inaction of an organization of OIC's importance in the face of the likely crimes against humanity by one of its member states is both abhorrent and inexcusable," Whitson said. "The OIC, just like its member states, needs to live up to its charter."

(Google News Aug. 20, 2011) In Syria antigovernment protesters have told reporters that President Bashar al-Assad's police are using torture in an especially perverse way. It's not for information gathering, since they can learn who opposes them by simply photographing demonstrators in the streets. Now they torture to terrify rebels by promising them a hideous death. The police pick up men at random, keep them a few days, then return them to their families, the many signs of torture readable on their dead bodies. It's not enough to kill demonstrators with tanks and snipers or have gunboats bombard the port of Latakia. The people are willing to face death. The police want them to fear torture as well. Seventy such deaths in detention have recently been documented, 40 of them in the city of Homs, a centre of anti-Assad feeling. In the five months since the demonstrations began, the government has killed about

Organization of Islamic Cooperation: Act Swiftly to Rein in Syria (Google News 20 Aug 2011)

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) should immediately take action against Syria for violating the organization's charter by systematically and brutally suppressing peaceful civilian protests. (New York) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) should immediately take action against Syria for violating the

Latest developments in Mideast political unrest from North Africa to the Persian Gulf (Google News) Syrian security forces kill at least 20 protesters despite promises by President Bashar Assad that the military operations against the 5-month-old uprising are over. The killings, which came as thousands poured into the streets across Syria, suggest the autocratic leader is either unwilling to stop the violence — or not fully in control of his own regime. LIBYA: Moammar Gadhafi’s forces launch

a fierce counterattack in a strategic western city, firing rockets, mortar shells and anti-aircraft guns in a bid to keep the rebels from gaining complete control and advancing toward the nearby capital. NATO’s bombing campaign has made it difficult for the regime to send massive reinforcements to Zawiya, enabling the rebels to maintain a foothold in their biggest prize in months. But the fierce onslaught by regime forces

signaled an opposition push toward Tripoli, Gadhafi’s main stronghold, would be arduous and bloody. BAHRAIN: A senior Shiite cleric in Bahrain says Sunni Gulf leaders are showing double standards by supporting Arab uprisings elsewhere while aiding Bahrain’s crackdown on its pro-reform protests. Sheik Isa Qassim says Shiite-led calls for greater rights in Bahrain are being ignored by Gulf

neighbors that have backed other revolts, such as those in Syria and Libya. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Charbel: Lebanon will stay out of Syria’s affairs Jordanians demonstrate in support of Syrian protesters

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(Google News Aug 19, 2011) Syrian security forces killed at least 32 protesters and arrested more than 300 people after U.S. President Barack Obama, in concert with European allies, called on Bashar al-Assad to step down. At least 27 people died today in a suburb of the capital, Damascus, the Homs governorate and Daraa, where the revolt against Syria’s president began in mid-March, said Ammar Qurabi of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria. Five were killed yesterday at rallies in the Damascus suburbs and across the country, according to Qurabi and Mahmoud Merhi, head of the Arab Organization for Human Rights. State media said four security forces members were killed by militants in Daraa. Western calls on Assad to step down “will certainly have an impact,” Merhi said by phone from Damascus. “They will embolden people and strengthen the momentum of the rallies.” In a coordinated move yesterday with U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Obama issued a statement saying the Syrian people deserve to chart their own future. The European Union said today it reached an agreement to broaden sanctions against the Syrian regime, including preparing for an embargo on Syrian crude oil into the bloc. Added Pressure: The measure by Western governments may add to pressure for United Nations action to penalize the government for the crackdown that Merhi and Qurabi say has killed more than 2,400 people. About 500 members of the security forces have died during that time, the government has said. Faced with the most serious threat to his fam-

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be a guest on Afghan bases, he said. Pakistan and Iran were also deeply opposed to the deal. Andrey Avetisyan, Russian amto Kabul, said: bassador “Afghanistan needs many other things apart from the permanent military presence of some countries. It needs economic help and it needs peace. Military bases are not a tool for peace. “I don’t understand why such bases are needed. If the job is done, if terrorism is defeated and peace and stability is brought back, then why would you need bases? “If the job is not done, then several thousand troops, even special forces, will not be able to do the job that 150,000 troops couldn’t do. It is not possible.” A complete withdrawal of foreign troops has been a precondition for any Taliban negotiations with Mr Karzai’s government and the deal would wreck the currently distant prospect of a negotiated peace, Mr Avetisyan said. Abdul Hakim Mujahid, deputy leader of the peace council set up by Mr Karzai to seek a settlement, said he suspected the Taliban had intensified their insurgency in response to the prospect of the pact. “They want to put pressure on the world community and Afghan government,” he said.

istan Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Korangi Association of Trade & Industry, and Karachi Traders Action Committee said that the law and order situation was beyond the control of the police and Rangers. The army must be brought in as the last resort to prevent further bloodshed in the city of 17 million people, said FPCCI President Khalid Tawab. He added that the civil law-enforcement agencies had failed to restore peace to the metropolis. KCCI President Saeed Shafique also endorsed the demand and said police had miserably failed to restore peace. Chairman of the Karachi Traders Action Committee (KTAC) Siddiq Memon appealed to the army chief to take immediate notice of the city’s grave situation. He said all trading activities had come to a grinding halt due to the violence, which had devastating effects on the economy. “Karachi should immediately be handed over to the army,” he said, adding that the police and Rangers had failed to maintain law and order in the city. Losses run into billions: The KTAC chairman said the ongoing wave of killings in the city caused losses of over Rs100 billion to local traders. More than 300 Eid bazaars and markets had been closed down while over 35,000 people related to the bazaars and markets had lost their jobs, he said. The Korangi Association of Trade and Industry said it seemed that law and order was getting out of control of the local administration and the law-enforcement agencies. “It’s now inevitable to call the army in to control the law and order situation in the city,” said KATI Patron-in-Chief S.M. Muneer, Chairman Syed Johar Ali Qandhari as well as former and present office-bearers of the association while showing grave concern over the prevailing law and order situation in Karachi. The KATI chairman appealed to the government to ask the army to cleanse the city from illegitimate arms and weapons, which seemed beyond the control of the law-enforcers, and return to the barracks afterwards. He said the gang warfare and ongoing strife between certain groups had destroyed the city peace. He said traders and industrialists were unable to continue with their businesses due to the violence. This was the worst economic situation over the last three years and due to which the entire country would suffer, he said. The patron-in-chief of the association asked the apex body of the business community, FPCCI, to immediately call a meeting of all stakeholders and decide a line of action to save the country’s economy. The business leaders were of the view that killings of innocent people in almost every part of the city were becoming a routine and it appeared that the law-enforcement agencies were not capable enough to control the situation. “How can police control the situation when almost 5,000 policemen have been detailed with around 100 VIPs on escort and security duties in a city of over 20 million people?” they said. Exporters worry: Chairman of the Pakistan Tanners Association (South Zone) Aziz Ahmed said the worsening law and order situation had crippled industrial activities, affecting the country’s exports. He added that exporters were extremely worried over the cancellation of orders. He said workers were not turning up due to massive targeted killings in almost every corner of the city. He said foreign buyers had also cancelled their planned visits to Pakistan for the same reason. He asked the government to take every necessary action to restore law and order instead of sitting idle.

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Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Mr Karzai’s top security adviser, told The Daily Telegraph that “remarkable progress” had been made. US officials have said they would be disappointed if a deal could not be reached by December and that the majority of small print had been agreed. Dr Spanta said a longer-term presence was crucial not only to build Afghan forces, but also to fight terrorism. “If [the Americans] provide us weapons and equipment, they need facilities to bring that equipment,” he said. “If they train our police and soldiers, then those trainers will not be 10 or 20, they will be thousands. “We know we will be confronted with international terrorists. 2014, is not the end of international terrorist networks and we have a common commitment to fight them. For this purpose also, the US needs facilities.” Afghan forces would still need support from US fighter aircraft and helicopters, he predicted. In the past, Washington officials have estimated a total of 25,000 troops may be needed. Dr Spanta added: “In the Afghan proposal we are talking about 10 years from 2014, but this is under discussion.” America would not be granted its own bases, and would

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and install a hard-line Islamist regime. Their anti-American rhetoric, combined with fact that successive Pakistani regimes have been corrupt and unable to provide basic services to the country, means they have some support. The United States is supporting Pakistan’s fight against the militants because of their deep links to Al Qaeda, whose leaders are believed to be based in the tribal regions. But the relationship between the countries is deeply troubled, chiefly over allegations that Islamabad is supporting insurgent factions fighting in Afghanistan. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton condemned the bombing. “The slaughter of worshipers as they gathered at a mosque for Ramadan’s Friday prayers underscores the brutality of those who would target civilians during a time of celebration and reflection for Muslims throughout the world,’’ she said in a statement. Since 2008, the United States has routinely fired missiles at militant targets in the northwest, a tactic that has increasingly angered Pakistan’s army and civilian leaders as well its people. The most recent attack took place earlier yesterday in South Waziristan, where two missiles hit a house, killing four suspected militants, said two Pakistani intelligence officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters. South Waziristan is a lawless stretch of rugged territory that was largely under the control of the Pakistani Taliban until October 2009, when the country’s army launched an operation against the insurgents.

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(Google News August 20, 2011)PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide bomber struck worshipers during prayers yesterday at a mosque close to the Afghan border, killing 48 people in an attack one official said may have been aimed at anti-Taliban elders praying during the holy month of Ramadan. Militants have frequently attacked tribesmen who have dared speak up - or raise arms - against them in the border region, where Al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban have long held sway. Rifts between insurgent factions have also led to mass-casualty attacks there. Pakistan has lost more than 35,000 people in militant violence since 2007, with mosques, markets, and hotels targeted. But the attack was shocking because it came not only on Islam’s holiest day of the week, but also its holiest month, when observant Muslims fast during the daytime and spend extra time in prayer and communal activities. “Whoever did it in the holy month of Ramadan cannot be a Muslim,’’ said Saleem Khan, who said that in the aftermath of the blast people ran over him to escape the scene. “It is the cruelest thing any Muslim would do,’’ he said from his hospital bed in the main northwestern city of Peshawar, where he was being treated for his injuries. The mosque is in Ghundi, a village in the Khyber tribal region, a part of Pakistan’s tribal belt that is offlimits to foreigners and considered too dangerous for nonlocal Pakistanis to visit. Much of the nonlethal supplies heading to US forces in Afghanistan pass through it.

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One of the essential elements of the series of events held in Budapest on 20 August is the fireworks that attract hundreds of thousands of spectators. In keeping with the tradition, the special light show will begin at 9 p.m. this year, too, and the primary viewing area is the section of the bank of Danube between Petőfi Bridge and Margit Bridge. This year the rockets will be launched from four sites: similarly to last year, the primary launching area is the three barges on the Danube, two of which will be anchored between Margit Bridge and the Chain Bridge and one opposite the harbour at Vigadó square. The fourth site is the now traditional Gellért Mountain, but unlike the usual scenario, the rockets will be placed not on the Citadel, rather in front of the Statue of Liberty, which is safer in terms of fire protection. The fire crackers will spring up to heights of 10 to 200 meters, naturally, those shot from Gellért Mountain will fly higher than that. The four sites will present an unforgettable sight along a length of three kilometres. In the visual appearance and background music of the show of thirty minutes the Danube will have an important role, along with the successful Hungarian EU Presidency of the last six months. The first minutes of the light show will recreate the atmosphere of Budapest cafés before the turn of the century, then the images will turn back all the way to the era of Saint Stephen, and the flashing lights will present symbols of the establishment of the state, our ancients traditions and Christianity. The fireworks will greet countries of the Danube strategy as well, with a special music compilation and matching images, then Hungary appears as a diverse, cultural capital located in the heart of Europe. The closing images will display togetherness, then in the final minutes the sight and music will reach cathartic heights and make an powerful impression on the spectators. In addition to the now traditional firework bombs exploding into coloured stars, we can watch dragon’s eggs, a cracking stroboscope, a tiger’s tail, golden shower, comet and coconut palm, and we will also be entertained by elements sunflower and golden spider. Although the rapid zigzag movements of lights will draw a different image on the sky for each spectator, we can rest assured that the fireworks will be unforgettable this year, too.

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Following the ceremony, the festive harvest procession will set off from Clark Ádám tér in the direction of the Basilica, for the master bakers’ bread to be blessed by Cardinal Péter Erdő, Primate of Hungary and Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest. Children, master bakers, dancers and musicians in traditional folk costume will form part of the procession. The procession will cross the Chain Bridge to its destination in front of Saint Stephen’s Basilica. Anybody may join the procession.

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(PR August 20, 2011) Adoption of the Historic Act of Independence of Ukraine on 24th August 1991 marked a new historical stage of development of Ukrainian foreign policy. The country and its Foreign Policy Office facing urgent tasks of recognition of Ukraine by the international community. The recognition of Ukraine by almost all countries, the establishment of their diplomatic relations and active development of bilateral cooperation, the creation of legal framework of international activities, opening of representative offices of foreign states and international organizations in Ukraine, an effective network of its own diplomatic and consular missions - all of this is a huge achievement modern diplomacy of Ukraine for 20 years period of Independence. Among the concrete achievements of this period, it should be mentioned very difficult arrangement of the basic political treaties with neighboring countries, in particular - Russia and Romania, international legal regulation of the state border of Ukraine, and such landmark achievements as the signing of a comprehensive basic Agreement with Russia, the Partnership Agreement for Cooperation with the EU and the Charter on a Distinctive Partnership with NATO, the establishment of strategic partnership relations with the United States and Poland, the successful development of mutually beneficial relations with partners in Europe, Asia and other countries. Achievement of national diplomacy allowed us successfully complete negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the WTO, the expansion of practical cooperation with NATO through continued participation of Ukraine in NATO peacekeeping operations. Since Independence, Ukraine has passed a long way in realization of its strategic goal – to be the member of EU, has defined in 1993 by Resolution of Verkhovna Rada "On Main Principles of Ukraine's Foreign Policy". Currently, we are surely moving by the chosen direction and targeting the potential of our foreign policy for the effective use of available national achievements. Ukraine foreign policy priorities remain

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with evidence of the Gravettian culture in the Crimean Mountains. By 4,500 BCE, the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian Culture flourished in a wide area that included parts of modern Ukraine including Trypillia and the entire DnieperDniester region. During the Iron Age, the land was inhabited by Cimmerians, Scythians, and Sarmatians. Between 700 BC and 200 BC it was part of the Scythian Kingdom, or Scythia. Later, colonies of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and the Byzantine Empire, such as Tyras, Olbia, and Hermonassa, were founded, beginning in the 6th century BC, on the northeastern shore of theBlack Sea, and thrived well into the 6th century AD. The Goths stayed in the area but came under the sway of the Huns from the 370s AD. In the 7th century AD, the territory of eastern Ukraine was the center of Old Great Bulgaria. At the end of the century, the majority of Bulgar tribes migrated in different directions and the land fell into the Khazars' hands.

of the country's name back to an ancient ethnonym. After this pseudo-historical view was discarded, two main versions of the etymology emerged. Naturally, the versions have different implications from a nationalist point of view, and are also based on different possible or certain meanings of the lexeme ukraina as it occurs in historical sources. According to one view, the term is taken to mean 'borderland' or simply 'land' (also 'in-land' or 'home-land', 'principality'), whilst in the other it is said to be derived from the old slavic word 'kraina', meaning 'country', and therefore, according to this understanding of the term, 'u-kraina' means 'in-country' or 'my-country'. Although it is not considered to be appropriate, it is common practice to refer to Ukraine as "the Ukraine" in English.

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be in Hungarian. They have literally placed thousands of stickers on every possible signpost, notice board, and in the windows of shops that back the idea. Some of the shops have even included Hungarian now on their notices. The aim of the Hungarian group is to preserve the visual and verbal presence of their mother tongue for which they said they had lawful rights.

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the urgent needs of millions of people affected by the floods. While Pakistan continues to feel the impact of the 2010 monsoon floods and faces wide-ranging challenges, I commend the Pakistani people for their dignified resilience in the face of adversity. “Canada values its relationship with Pakistan and we stand by Pakistanis as they continue to work towards building a strong, stable and secure nation. Once again, I wish you the best as you commemorate this important day.”

(PR)Minority language rights activists demand bilingualism in Felvidék/South-Slovakia, where the majority of Hungarians live. Several towns and villages of the region swept into action by posting stickers calling for signposts to also be in Hungarian. The activists from the so-called Kétnyelvű Szlovákia/Bilingual Slovakia Facebook initiative are putting stickers in places where they feel names should also

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scape and contributes to Canada’s prosperity in all fields of endeavour. “On this special day, we reflect on the events and accomplishments that have shaped the history of Pakistan and we celebrate the ties between our two countries. “I would also like to take this opportunity to recall the catastrophic floods that caused massive devastation in Pakistan last year. Our Government’s humanitarian assistance and the contributions of thousands of individual Canadians helped meet

(PR) By 1 August the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Transylvania (RMDSZ) had officially engaged in recruiting paid census commissioners for the national census to be held in October 2011. The crucial effect of the next census for minorities is grasped in their proportion of the total population, since under the Public Administration Law passed in Romania 2001, if a national or ethnic minority makes up over 20 percent of the population of a given settlement, they have the right to street signs, schools, and official proceedings in their own language. In Romania there are approximately 1.5 million Hungarian speaking people. After refusing to use minority language questionnaires in 2002, the Romanian Statistical Institute has the same attitude after a decade. The RMDSZ seeks for the support of Hungarian teachers in Romanian to emphasize the need for confessing ethnic identity. It would be desirable, if at least 6-7 000 Hungarian census commissioners collect data throughout Transylvania in order to ensure that every 300 Hungarian inhabitants in municipalities gets at least one commissioner.

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Ontario-Canada (14 August 2011) Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement to mark the 64th anniversary of Pakistan’s independence: “On behalf of Canadians, I am pleased to extend my very best wishes and sincere congratulations to all those celebrating the 64th anniversary of Pakistan’s independence. “Our country is home to a vi300,000-member brant, strong community of Canadians of Pakistani heritage, which plays a meaningful role in our diverse cultural land-

(PR) The Hungarian state declared its support for all Hungarian (prospective) citizens living outside the country in response to the deed of the Via Nova ICS vice-chairman (youth organization of the Hungarian Coalition Party in Slovakia). László Gubík publicly confessed that he is now a Hungarian citizen ignoring the legal repercussions he may face. Furthermore, Hungary once again gave its assurance that it would not provide any information on persons applying for Hungarian citizenship. On 1 January 2011, the modified Citizenship Act of Hungary came into effect introducing the simplified naturalization procedure. Under the amended law every non-Hungarian citizen is eligible for the simplified naturalisation if he or any of his ancestors was a Hungarian citizen or if there is reason to believe that his or her origin is from Hungary; he proves his knowledge of the Hungarian language; he has no criminal record and is not under prosecution; and his naturalisation does not violate the public and national security of Hungary. Thus far more than 130,000 applications have been filed, mainly from Romania and Serbia. Seventy percent of applications have been the processed in nearly 70 countries of the world. While Hungary respects the internationally applied practice of dual citizenship, Slovakia enacted a citizenship law that envisage a fine of €3319 if a person failed to report the second citizenship automatically forfeiting the Slovak one. Béla Bugár, leader of the Hungarian-Slovak MostHíd party said that his party would offer legal assistance to anyone considering taking legal steps to regain their Slovak citizenship. Nine Hungarian people in Slovakia have been reported to have lost their Slovak citizenships when they gained a Hungarian one under Hungary's new dual citizenship laws since the start of the year.

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Venue: Budapest, from Clark Ádám tér to Saint Stephen’s Basilica via the Chain Bridge Time: 20 August 2011, 16:00

King Stephen of Hungary has been a popular theme in art, especially from the 19th century on, with the development of nationalism. Paintings such as The Baptism of Vajk (1875) by Gyula Benczúr and many statues representing the king all over Hungary testify to Stephen's importance in Hungarian national thought. The last complete opera by the Hungarian composer Ferenc Erkel is István király (King Stephen) (1885). The best known representations of St. Stephen in music are Ludwig van Beethoven's King Stephen Overture, and the 1983 rock opera István, a király (Stephen, the King) by Levente Szörényi and János Bródy. Szörényi's Veled, Uram! (With You, my Lord!) (2000) was a sequel to István király. The crown is represented in the painting of Edward Burne-Jones, started in 1881, The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon.

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Venue: Clark Ádám tér, Budapest Time: 20 August 2011, 16:00 The origins of the Saint Stephen’s Day harvest celebration stretch back to the reign of Maria Theresa: the Queen ordered that on 20 August every year we should commemorate the king who founded our state. Visitors flocked from far and wide to celebrate the Breaking of the New Bread with ceremonial harvest festivities which were then held on the Stephen Days on Castle Hill in Buda. These traditions are kept alive in the Mesterségek Ünnepe Crafts Fair, held every year on 20 August in Buda’s Castle District. Last year was the first in which the ecumenical service took place in Clark Ádám tér, with the participation of the associations which preserve these traditions. In the service, the liturgy which forms part of the celebration events includes the symbolic blessing of bread made from newly harvested wheat, and with this gesture thanks is given for this year’s crop. At the event Gábor Tamás Nagy, Mayor of District I, will address those assembled, and then Szilvia Bognár will perform songs associated with Saint Stephen. Member organisations of the Alliance of Folk Arts Associations and dance troops from the Children's Folk Arts Heritage Society will take part in the event. Áron Őze will be the narrator for the event.

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targeted by asset freezes and travel bans. The increased sanctions reflect a significant stepping up of international pressure against Assad's regime. They are subject to formal approval early next week.

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The moves are in response to President Bashar al-Assad's ongoing crackdown on protesters, who are contesting his family's fourdecade rule over Syria. 15 people and five institutions will be added to a list of those already

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and other western cities "who are increasingly vulnerable and now want to leave." Government spokesman Musa Ibrahim downplayed the movements Friday, saying rebel supply lines have been cut off from the coast and from the south, rendering them unable to advance. "We have paid a heavy price, and we have nothing in front of us except the prize, and the prize is victory over those traitors who collaborated with the crusader enemy and transformed Libya into a bloodbath," Ibrahim said. Meanwhile, a NATO airstrike destroyed the home of Abdullah alSanussi, the head of Libya's intelligence service and a brotherin-law of Gadhafi's, neighbors and Libyan government officials said Friday. The strike also destroyed a school and medical store, neighbors and officials said. One person -- not alSanussi -- was killed, they said. In June, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for al-Sanussi along with Gadhafi and his son Saif al-Islam for actions taken as a popular uprising morphed into civil war. The warrants are for "crimes against humanity," including murder and persecution committed in Libya in February "through the state apparatus and security forces." Gadhafi's government has rejected the court's authority. The attack on al-Sanussi's house followed a NATO airstrike Thursday night that killed a brother of the government Ibrahim, spokesman, a Libyan government official said. Hasan Ali Ibrahim, a younger brother of Musa Ibrahim, was working as a civilian volunteer for the Gadhafi government, the official said. The 25-year-old university student had left Tripoli with a group of people to check on friends in Zawiya; he and the others were struck by bullets fired from an Apache helicopter while on foot in Zawiya's central square, the official said.

of grain to North Korea by the end of September. It said the first shipment was made on Friday. Russia and North Korea were once politically close, but relations cooled and trade fell sharply after the collapse of the Communist Soviet Union in 1991. Russia has expressed concern about North Korea missile tests and urged it to abide by commitments on its nuclear programme, but has warned South Korea and the United States against acting too aggressively with the North. Russian authorities in Vladivostok, 130 km (80 miles) from the North Korean border, had been making preparations for a possible visit by Kim in June, according to a local official. He never arrived, and the newspaper Kommersant reported that he had canceled the visit because of worries about security following media reports that he was coming. In 2001, Kim travelled over 7,000 km (4,500 miles) to Moscow by train for talks with Putin, who is now prime minister and is considering a return to the presidency in a vote next March.

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“My dearest son, if you desire to honor the royal crown, I advise, I counsel, I urge you above all things to maintain the Catholic and Apostolic faith with such diligence and care that you may be an example for all those placed under you by God, and that all the clergy may rightly call you a man of true Christian profession. Failing to do this, you may be sure that you will not be called a Christian or a son of the Church. Indeed, in the royal palace, after the faith itself, the Church holds second place, first constituted and spread through the whole world by His members, the apostles and holy fathers, And though she always produced fresh offspring, nevertheless in certain places she is regarded as ancient. However, dearest son, even now in our kingdom the Church is proclaimed as young and newly planted; and for that reason she needs more prudent and trustworthy guardians less a benefit which the divine mercy bestowed on us undeservedly should be destroyed and annihilated through your idleness, indolence or neglect. My beloved son, delight of my heart, hope of your posterity, I pray, I command, that at very time and in everything, strengthened by your devotion to me, you may show favor not only to relations and kin, or to the most eminent, be they leaders or rich men or neighbors or fellow-countrymen, but also to foreigners and to all who come to you. By fulfilling your duty in this way you will reach the highest state of happiness. Be merciful to all who are suffering violence, keeping always in your heart the example of the Lord who said: “I desire mercy and not sacrifice”. Be patient with everyone, not only with the powerful, but also with the weak. Finally be strong lest prosperity lift you up too much or adversity cast you down. Be humble in this life that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately. Be gentle so that you may never oppose justice. Be honorable so that you never voluntarily bring disgrace upon anyone. Be chaste so that you may avoid all the foulness that so resembles the pangs of death. All these virtues I have noted above make up the royal crown and without them no one is fit to rule here on earth or attain to the heavenly Kingdom.

the United States doesn't have a clear idea what form it could take. State Department However, spokesman Mark Toner said Friday that U.S. officials in Benghazi have been working with the Libyan opposition "on exactly what it's going to look like post-Gadhafi." "Impossible to say when he'll go, but it's clear that he will go," Toner told CNN's Brooke Baldwin. Meanwhile Friday, opposition forces said a former Libyan prime minister has left Tripoli and joined with rebels in the country's western mountains. Abdel Salam Jalloud "is in Zintan and he is a free man among the rebels," said Jumma Ibrahim, a spokesman for the Military Council of the Western Mountain Region, a rebel group. Kaim declined to confirm or deny the report. Jalloud was among members of Gadhafi's inner-circle responsible for the 1969 coup that put Gadhafi into power. Jalloud fell out of favor with the regime in the mid-1990s. The speculation over a Gadhafi "last stand" comes as his troops are battling rebel forces on a number of fronts, including in the west, where fighting has raged for days over the strategic city of Zawiya, about 30 miles west of Tripoli and a major supply route to the capital. Fierce artillery fire could be heard around Zawiya on Friday. Rebels took a major oil refinery there, said Hobab Jomaa, a rebel fighter. They were in control of the western part of the city, but battles continued in the eastern part, he said. When asked when rebels might begin their move toward Tripoli, one fighter in Zawiya told CNN's Sara Sidner, "Two days, maybe by the end of the week." "They are becoming more emboldened," Sidner said of the rebels. "They feel like they can really have a chance at Tripoli." The International Organization for Migration said Friday that it is working to evacuate an unknown number of foreign nationals from Tripoli

"We understand Chairman Kim's special train arrived at Khasan Station at about 10 a.m. after crossing the border between North Korea and Russia and that a welcoming ceremony is happening there," Yonhap quoted the source as saying. The Kremlin statement confirmed Kim was arriving on Saturday and said he would spend time in the Far East and Siberia. "The main event of the visit will be President Dmitry Medvedev's meeting with Kim Jong-il," it said. Yonhap said Kim was expected to stay in Russia for a week. The visit follows a series of top-level meetings between Pyongyang, Seoul, Washington and Beijing that has raised hopes of a resumption of long-stalled talks on disabling the secretive North's nuclear weapons programme. Russia and Japan are also parties to the talks. North Korea has been desperate for economic aid after suffering from devastating floods and economic sanctions led by the United States because of its nuclear programme. Citing a "severe deficit" of food products in North Korea, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Russia would send 50,000 tonnes

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This is the fifth year in which the National Guild of Hungarian Confectioners has prepared a masterpiece of the confectioner’s art for the celebration of the State’s foundation. The Hungary Cake will be presented for the first time on the Avenue of Hungarian Flavours, and then cakes prepared according to the original recipe will appear in confectionaries. The title of the Hungary Cake is awarded in competition every year. Entrants range from master confectioners to ambitious housewives – the most important factor is that recipes should be innovative and full of creative ideas typifying the Hungarian world of flavour, and in some way connected to the National Day of 20 August. The competition will be judged by a distinguished jury of master confectioners, who will choose three cakes from the first round to go into the final, and in the second round a new jury will decide on the ultimate winner for the year. This year the cakes that have reached the final include the White Butter Pear Cake from Tatabánya, with its perfect combination of pear-mascarpone, cheese-chocolate. The incomparable fruit from the famous city of Kecskemét dominates in the other two concoctions in the competition: the Kecskemét Peach Cake and the Millet Cake with Kecskemét Peach Filling. The official announcement of the Hungary cake will take place at the beginning of August. Confectioners will simultaneously start making the winning cake according to an identical recipe in the country’s hundreds of confectioner’s, and the cake can be bought from 20 August onwards. The recipe for the 2011 Hungary Cake can be accessed here after announcement of the competition result. The winning cakes from past years: - 2007: Madártej (Floating Islands) Cake - 2008: Szatmári Plum Cake - 2009: Pándi Sour Cherry Cake - 2010: Plum Dumpling Cake

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Critics labeled the plan a "blanket amnesty" for a large group of illegal immigrants. Several Republicans, including Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, came out against the plan Friday. "This plan amounts to back-door amnesty for hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- of illegal aliens," Brewer said in a statement. "We need to remind President Obama that we elected a president that serves beneath the law and did not anoint a king that is above the law."

(Google News Aug 20, 2011 ) In his first public visit to Russia in nearly a decade, Kim will meet President Dmitry Medvedev and will spend time in the country's Far East and Siberia, the Kremlin said in a statement. Russia is a member of the longstalled six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, though China now holds more influence with North Korea than Russia does. Kim made his last public visit to Russia in 2002, when he met thenPresident Vladimir Putin in the far eastern city of Vladivostok. He has visited China, Pyongyang's closest big-power ally, three times in just over a year. Kim arrived in the town of Khasan, near the short border between North Korea and Russia, and was greeted by the Primorye region governor and President Dmitry Medvedev's representative in the Russian Far East, a regional government source said. South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing a South Korean government source, said Kim would likely hold talks with Medvedev in Ulan-Ude, hundreds of kilometers (miles) further west near Lake Baikal in Siberia.

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(Google News August 20, 2011) Libyan officials are refuting rebel claims that Moammar Gadhafi is seeking refuge for his family, saying Friday that neither the leader nor his wife and children plan to leave the country. Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim told CNN that Gadhafi and his family are staying in the country, countering rebel reports that the governments of Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria have been asked to accept the family. U.S. and NATO officials also say they have no indication Gadhafi is making preparations to leave. Abdel Monem al-Houni, a representative of the rebel Transitional Council in Cairo, told CNN he was informed about the request by the Arab governments who received it. Kaim said the four governments could speak on their own behalf about the rebel claims. The reports come as U.S. officials say the embattled leader may be making preparations for a last stand in Tripoli as a months-long NATO air campaign continues amid reports of rebel advances. "We believe he could be planning for a last stand," one U.S. official said. A second U.S. official confirmed a similar concern and said the Gadhafi plan could involve a final military offensive against civilians, launched from his last major strongholds around the Libyan capital. The officials, who have knowledge of the situation on the ground, did not want to be named because of the sensitive intelligence matters. In an address broadcast on Libyan state television Monday, Gadhafi urged supporters to take up arms and battle rebel forces. "Move always forward to the challenge; pick up your weapons; go to the fight in order to liberate Libya inch by inch from the traitors and from NATO. Be prepared to fight if they hit the ground," Gadhafi said. Both U.S. officials emphasized that if a final push by Gadhafi happens,

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Our national holidays are fitting opportunities for the award of Hungary’s highest state honours. This year the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic will be awarded on the eve of the celebration of the founding of the State. The honours will be awarded by the President of the Republic of Hungary, at the nomination of the Prime Minister. The decorations are awarded as recognition for outstanding achievements in the service of the nation, in promoting the development of the country, in furthering the interests of the nation and in advancing universal human values. On 19 August in the Central Domed Hall of Parliament Pál Schmitt, President of the Republic of Hungary, will award the Grand Cross, Commander Cross and Commander Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic. Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán and Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament László Kövér will also be present at the awards ceremony. Following the event the list of recipients can be read below.

Following Stephen's death, his nephew Peter Urseolo (his appointed heir) and his brother-in-law Samuel Aba contended for the crown. Nine years of instability followed until Stephen's cousin Andrew I was crowned King of Hungary in 1047 to re-establish the Árpád dynasty. Hungarian historiography saw Peter and Samuel as members of the Árpád dynasty, and both are counted among the Árpád kings. Shortly after Stephen's death, healing miracles were said to have occurred at his tomb. Stephen was canonized by Pope Gregory VII as Saint Stephen of Hungary in 1083, along with his son, Saint Emeric and Bishop Gerhard (Hungarian: Szent Gellért). Thus Saint Stephen became the first canonized confessor king, a new category of saint. He is venerated as the patron saint of Hungary, kings, children who are dying, masons, stonecutters, and bricklayers. St Stephen is not mentioned in the Tridentine Calendar. His feast day was added to the General Roman Calendar only in 1631, and only as a commemoration on 20 August, the feast of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. In 1687, it was moved to 2 September and remained there until the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints. Then the feast of Saint Joachim on 16 August was moved and the date became available for another celebration, so the feast of Saint Stephen of Hungary was moved to that date, the day immediately after his death. Some traditionalist Catholics continue to observe pre-1970 versions of the General Roman Calendar. In the local calendar of the Church in Hungary, the feast is observed on 20 August, the day on which his sacred relics were translated to the city of Buda. It is a public holiday in Hungary. During the period of Communist rule in Hungary, St. Stephen's Day was referred to as the anniversary of the Stalinist constitution of 1949 and "The celebration of the new bread — the end of the harvest". San Estevan del Rey Mission Church is a church that was founded in 1629 in Acoma, New Mexico is named for the king. The Pueblo of Acoma continues to celebrate on 2 September his feast day with traditional Native American dances. The king's right hand, known as the Holy Right, is kept as a relic. Hungarians interpreted the incorruptibility of his right arm and hand - with which he had held the Holy Crown aloft from his deathbed when asking our Lady to be the Queen of the Hungarians - as a sign that the Blessed Virgin Mary had accepted the king's offer to her of the Hungarian people, and she remains officially their queen. The incorrupt arm was divided among European royalty, but the Holy Right of King Saint Stephen was placed in a town built solely for the purpose of keeping it, the town in Transylvania called "Szent Jobb", or Holy Right. Later, the Holy Right was transferred to where it is today, the Basilica of King Saint Stephen in Budapest. Apart from the Holy Right, only some bone fragments remain, which are kept in churches throughout Hungary. Hungarian Catholics honor the first king of their country with annual processions, at which the Holy Right is exhibited. The canonization of Saint Stephen was recognized by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople in the year 2000. The Holy Crown, popularly attributed to St. Stephen, was removed from the country in 1945 for safekeeping, and entrusted to the United States government. It was kept in a vault at Fort Knox until 1978, when it was returned to the nation by order of President Jimmy Carter. It has been enshrined in the Hungarian parliament building in Budapest since 2000.

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Stephen intended to retire to a life of holy contemplation and hand the kingdom over to his son Emeric, but Emeric was wounded in a hunting accident and died in 1031. In Stephen's words of mourning: By God's secret decision death took him, so that wickedness would not change his soul and false imaginations would not deceive his mind – as the Book of Wisdom teaches about early death. Stephen mourned for a very long time over the loss of his son, which took a great toll on his health. He eventually recovered, but never regained his original vitality. Having no children left, he could not find anyone among his remaining relatives who was able to rule the country competently and be willing to maintain the Christian faith of the nation. He did not want to entrust his kingdom to his cousin, Duke Vazul, whom he suspected to be following pagan customs. The disregarded duke took part in a conspiracy aimed at the murder of Stephen I, but the assassination attempt failed and Vazul had his eyes gouged out and molten lead poured in his ears. Without a living heir, on his deathbed, King St. Istvan raised with his right hand the Holy Crown of Hungary, and prayed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, asking her to take the Hungarian people as her subjects and become their queen. King Stephen died on the feast day which commemorates the bodily assumption into heaven of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Feast of the Assumption on 15 August, in the year 1038, at Esztergom-Szentkirály or Székesfehérvár, where he was buried. His nobles and his subjects were said to have mourned for three straight years afterwards.

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Venue: Kossuth Lajos tér, Budapest Time: 19.00, 20 August 2011 This large-scale cycle tour linking Transylvania and Hungary was inaugurated last year under the name Korszak Váltó Határon-Túra (‘Epoch-changing Cross-border Tour’). The aim of the initiative is to assist in creating direct links between the motherland and Hungarians living beyond the borders, and between the Hungarian and Romanian nations, and to draw attention to an environmentally friendly, sustainable mode of transport: cycling. The main patrons of the event are Pál Schmitt, President of the Republic of Hungary and sports ambassador Imre Pulai, Olympic and world champion sprint canoer. In 2011 the tour of more than 850 km will take place between 13 and 20 August, and will take the cyclists from the ‘one-thousand-year-old border’ to Budapest, passing through around one hundred settlements on the way. The main settlements on the route are Gyimesbükk (Ghimeş-Făget), Székelyudvarhely (Odorheiu Secuiesc), Szászrégen (Reghin), Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca), Pádis (Padis), Nagyszalonta (Salonta), Szarvas, Kecskemét and Budapest. The slogan of the 2011 tour is: Élmény. Teljesítmény (‘Experience. Achievement’). The tour is more than this however, as it is also a charity event. The participants’ entry fees will go towards supporting St. Stephen's right hand the Csíksomlyó (Şumuleu Ciuc) Dévai Szent Ferenc Foundation Children’s Home. The organisers are contributing one thousand forints from the entry fee of every participant to the children’s home, and they will help in forwarding to the foundation’s representatives the pledges and donations that are received during the tour. The participants in the tour will arrive in Budapest on 20 August, on the date of the celebration of the State’s foundation. The organisers will wait for cyclists to arrive in Hősök tere in Soroksár (District XXIII in Budapest), and at 5 p.m. they will cycle en masse to Parliament. At 7 p.m. László Kövér, Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, will greet them. The Hot Jazz Band will perform at the event. After this the determination of cyclists will be rewarded with a view of the festive firework display from Parliament.

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Venue: Szent István tér, Budapest Time: 20 August 2011, 17.00 In the early1800s, during the reign of Emperor Francis, it became a custom to carry in solemn procession the miraculously preserved right hand of the saint and king who founded the State of Hungary. In those days the procession was on Buda’s Castle Hill in what were known as the Days of Saint Stephen. In the Second World War the Holy Right and the coronation regalia were despoiled, and from 1950 the procession and veneration of the Holy Right were banned. On 20 August 1987 the Chapel of the Holy Crown Holy Right in Saint Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest was consecrated, and it became the final resting place for the relic of our great king. In 1988, on the 950th anniversary of the death of Saint Stephen, the nationwide progress of the Holy Right was revived; every year since then the supplicatory progress has set off on Saint Stephen’s Day. This year, as in previous years, on 20 August a Celebration Mass will be held in front of Saint Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest, after which the nationwide progress of the Holy Right will start. The Liturgy, which starts at 17.00, will be led by Cardinal Péter Erdő, Primate of Hungary, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and President of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference. This year the Procession of the Holy Right proceeds along its older, longer route, passing through József Attila utca and Széchenyi tér, then turning through Zrínyi utca back to Szent István tér. In the procession members of monastic and knightly orders recognised by the Holy See, Societies of Apostolic Life, and pilgrims from parishes will go in procession before the Holy Right. Individual members of the public will also be able to take part in the procession.

In his external politics Stephen I allied himself with his brother-in-law, the Emperor Henry II against Prince Boleslaw I of Poland, who had extended his rule over the territories between the Morava and VáhRivers. Stephen sent troops to the emperor's army, and in the Peace of Bautzen, in 1018, the Polish prince had to hand over the occupied territories to Stephen. Shortly afterwards, Stephen sent troops to help Boleslaw I in his campaign against Kievan Rus'. In 1018, Stephen lead his armies against Bulgaria, in alliance with the Byzantine Emperor Basil II, and collected several relics during his campaign. After the death of Henry II ( 3 July 1024), Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Holy Roman Emperor, Conrad II claimed supremacy over the Kingdom of Hungary, while Stephen demanded the Duchy of Bavaria for his son Emeric who was the nearest relative of the deceased Emperor Henry II (who himself had been the last male descendant of the old dukes of Bavaria). In 1027, Stephen had Bishop Werner of Strasbourg, the envoy sent by Conrad II to the Byzantine Empire, arrested at the frontier. In 1030, the emperor lead his armies against Hungary, but Stephen's troops forced them to retreat. Stephen and Emperor Conrad II concluded peace negotiations in 1031, and the territories between the Leitha (Hungarian: (Lajta)) and Fischa Rivers were ceded to Hungary.

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of the legislation. Senate Democrats working for immigration reform welcomed the new policy. Sen. Patrick Leahy (DVt.), said it would "alleviate some of the pressure on our broken immigration system." Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), coauthor of the Dream Act bill that would grant a path to citizenship for certain illegal immigrant students, described the policy as "a fair and just way to deal with an important group of immigrant students." Jon Feere, a legal analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies, which has sought tougher restrictions on immigration, said the new policy was "an effort by President Obama to appeal to some Latino

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Time: 20 August 2011, 10.00–18.00 The Parliament Building opens its doors to the public on our national holidays. On 20 August visitors may tour the home of the Hungarian legislature from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. As part of the Open Parliament Programme, visitors may see the Ceremonial Staircase and the Central Domed Hall of Parliament, where the Holy Crown of Hungary is guarded by keepers of the crown from the Defence Forces. During the programme, the Parliament’s guard unit from the Guards’ Regiment of the Republic will change every half hour at the main entrance to the building. The Orchestra of the Police Special Forces will be performing in the square. Entry to the building will be via Gate XII. There is no need for prior registration for the parliamentary tour, and there is no charge.

According to the much argued Chronicon Pictum, the first king of the Hungarians is Attila the Hun. However, the codex repeats itself as Stephen I is also cited as the first king of the Hungarians. Also argued by historians is the exact meaning of the phrase in the Remonstrances to Emerick from St Stephen: "Regale ornamentum scito esse maximum: sequi antecessores reges et honestos imitari parentos", which translates to: "The greatest deed for the kingdom is to follow the old kings and to imitate parents". This might mean that Stephen is referring to the "old kings" which could only be Attila and Nimrod. It might also mean that the constitution of the kingdom itself was not employed by St Stephen, but by his ancestors. What is confirmed is that, after (or just before) his coronation, Stephen I founded several dioceses, namely, the dioceses of Veszprém, Győr, Kalocsa, Vác, and Bihar. He also established the Archdiocese of Esztergom. Thus he set up an ecclesiastical organisation independent of the German archbishops. He also began to organize a territory-based administration by founding several counties (comitatus, megye)in his kingdom. Stephen discouraged pagan customs and strengthened Christianity by means of various laws. In his first decree, issued at the beginning of his rule, he ordered that each ten villages would be obliged to build a church. He invited foreign priests to Hungary to evangelize his kingdom. Saint Astricus served as his adviser and Saint Gerard Sagredo as the tutor for his son Emeric (also rendered as Imre). Around 1003, Stephen invaded and occupied Transylvania, a territory ruled by his maternal uncle, Gyula, a semi-independent chieftain. After this victory, Stephen organized the Diocese of Transylvania. In the next few years he also occupied the lands of the Black Magyars in the southern part of Transdanubia, and there organized Statue of King Stephen I of the Diocese of Pécs. Shortly afterwards, it is believed that he made an agreement Hungary and Queen Giselle withSamuel Aba, the chieftain of the Kabar tribes settled in the Mátra region, who in Veszprém (Hungary) married Stephen's sister. In his brother-in-law's domains, Stephen founded the Diocese of Eger. Finally, Stephen occupied the domains of Ajtony, a semi-pagan chieftain who had been ruling over the territories of the later Banat. Here Stephen set up the Diocese of Csanád.

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himself as it has been dated as originating in the 12th century. The origin of the crown, however, is hotly disputed.

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Venue: Kossuth Lajos tér, Budapest Time: 20 August 2011, 8.00 The programme of celebrations on 20 August will start with the raising of the national flag in front of the Parliament Building. In a departure from custom, before the raising of the flag the Ceremonial Guard of the Defence Forces will greet the President of the Republic of Hungary, the Prime Minister of Hungary, the Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament and the Chief of Staff of the Hungarian Defence Forces with a ceremonial changing of the guard in the Central Domed Hall of the Parliament Building. In line with tradition, the ceremonial raising of the national flag will be carried out by the Budapest Garrison, and Pál Schmitt, the President of the Republic of Hungary, will authorise it. Also attending the ceremony will be Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán, Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament László Kövér, members of the diplomatic corps and invited guests. The Central Orchestra of the Auxiliary Brigade of the Hungarian Defence Forces and the National Mounted Guard of Honour of the Hungarian Republic will take part in the event, and historical flags will be flown in front of the Parliament Building. The narrator for the ceremony will be Áron Őze, and the National Anthem will be sung by Katalin Szvorák, winner of the Alternative Kossuth Prize. The raising of the flag will be broadcast live by Duna Television. After the ceremony, the National Mounted Guard of Honour and the military orchestra will parade along Alkotmány utca in the direction of Heroes’ Square, where an officers’ passing out ceremony will take place later. On Andrássy út from Oktogon to Heroes’ Square there will be performances by military orchestras, majorettes and exhibition drill soldiers. At 8 p.m. The national flag will be lowered with military honours in front of the Parliament Building. The lowering of the flag will be carried out by the Budapest Garrison.

In 997, his father died and a succession struggle ensued. Stephen claimed to rule the Magyars by the principle of Christian divine right, while his uncle Koppány, a powerful pagan chieftain in Somogy, claimed the traditional right of agnatic seniority. Eventually, the two met in battle near Veszprém and Stephen, victorious, assumed the role of Grand Prince of the Hungarians. Stephen's victory came about primarily thanks to his German retinue led by the brothers Pázmány and Hont. The nearly contemporary deed of foundation of the Abbey of Pannonhalma clearly described the battle as a struggle between the Germans and the Magyars. Thus, Stephen strengthened his power in Transdanubia, but several parts of Hungary still did not accept his rule. According to Hungarian tradition, Pope Silvester II, with the consent of Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, sent a magnificent jeweled gold crown to Stephen along with an apostolic cross and a letter of blessing officially recognizing Stephen as the Christian king of Hungary. Later this tradition was interpreted as the papal recognition of the independence of Hungary from the Holy Roman Empire. The date of Stephen's coronation is variously given as Christmas Day, 1000 or 1 January 1001. Stephen I is closely tied to the Crown of St. Stephen and the Doctrine of the Holy Crown which marks a unique tradition of the Kingdom of Hungary. According to Hartwick's legend, during his coronation Stephen dedicated the crown to the Holy Virgin, thereby sealing a contract between God and the crown (which is therefore considered a "holy" crown). This contract is also the basis for the Doctrine of the Holy Crown and the basis for the Apostolic Kingdom of Hungary. The actual crown which survives today was probably never worn by the king Saint Stephen I in Budapest

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Aug. 9, 2011. An activist from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party is beaten up by police during a protest against corruption in New Delhi, India. Police used bamboo batons and water canons to control thousands of angry supporters of India's main opposition party who were marching in New Delhi to protest against the government's hosting of last year's Commonwealth Games among other corruption charges.

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