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The 100th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the United Kingdom and Hungary was celebrated in London on Monday evening.

The National Library of Israel and the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives have purchased and will put on display Hungarian Jewish communal records that had been planned to be auctioned off by a private owner, the National Library of Israel said.

“Thobe” Palestinian traditional dress. It is more than a dress, it is an entire country’s cultural identity.

Persecuted Christian communities in the Middle East and in Africa appreciate the government’s Hungary Helps humanitarian aid programme, the state secretary responsible for aiding persecuted Christians told MTI in Rome.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sent a telegram of sympathy to US President Joe Biden over the victims of Thursday’s terrorist attack at Kabul airport and wished a speedy recovery to the injured.

Cooperation between Russia and Hungary has reached an “unprecedented level”, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told daily Magyar Nemzet in an interview published on Monday.

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó met Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organisation WHO, for talks in Budapest on Monday.

The first Hungarian aircraft participating in an evacuation mission from Afghanistan is expected to land in Budapest around midnight, a foreign ministry state secretary said.

Hungary will bring all its citizens home safely from Afghanistan, a foreign ministry official has said.

Foreign ministry state secretary Levente Magyar said the Hungarian government is looking into ways it could help those who had worked for Hungarian troops as interpreters or in other capacities in Afghanistan over the last 20 years.