2017 Miss World Hungary Virág Koroknyai was a hyper-active child

Blikk's journalist visited the winner of 2017 Miss World Hungary pageant Virág Koroknyai (20) who lives in a quite street 40 minutes from Budapest with her parents.

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About five hundred Ukrainian soldiers committed suicide after serving the front line, confirmed by internal data

About five hundred Ukrainian soldiers who served the front line in Donetsk basin have committed suicide so far announced by Arsen Avakov, the head of the ministry of interior on Thursday on Facebook.

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Swimmer Katinka Hosszú is also among the nominees selected for this year's ESPY Award

Swimmer Katinka Hosszú is also among the nominees selected for this year's ESPY Award (short for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award) presented by the American broadcast television network ABC.

The winner will be announce on July 12th at a gala event will be broadcast live by the American ABC channel.

You can vote for Katinka HERE!

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No agreement on the distribution of migrants at EU summit

Arriving at a two-day summit of European Union Member States in Brussels on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Hungarian journalists that “There is no agreement among European Union Member States on the distribution of migrants, as Western countries which foolishly allowed in migrants want to get rid of them by distributing them among countries such as Hungary, which protected themselves and did not allow migrants to enter”.

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Kohl’s widow wanted Orbán, not Merkel to speak at memorial service

European leaders will speak at state memorial service of former German leader.

By CHRISTIAN KRUG 6/21/17, 2:33 PM CET

The widow of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl did not want Angela Merkel to speak at his state memorial service on July 1, Der Spiegel reported Wednesday.

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Hungary is China’s most important trade partner in the region

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Liu Yandong, Vice-Premier of the People's Republic of China. They held talks aimed at strengthening the strategic partnership between Hungary and China.

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Mentally deranged German MEP proposes creating Arab populated villages across Eastern Europe

German MEP has proposed the creation of migrants populated villages across Eastern Europe, even against the will of the local population because the "rejection of mandatory settlements of migrants by the Eastern European countries contrary to EU principles".

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Hungary rejects the US government’s criticism of the Foreign Agents Act

The most recent statement by the US Department of State is another stark example of double standards, since the regulation in force in the USA is much stricter than that in Hungary. In the USA Soros organisations could never do what they are doing in Europe.

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Katinka Hosszú challenges new FINA rules

In a long letter, Olympic Champion Swimmer Katinka Hosszú criticizes FINA’s new World Cup rules. According to the new regulations, in the future athletes can compete only in four events. This rule strikes the heart of Katinka’s training schedule who used World Cup competitions as part of her training plan competing sometimes in seven events. This is what she writes:

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Different cultural foundations produce different migration policies

In Warsaw, after a summit of prime ministers of the Visegrád countries (V4) and the Benelux states, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that different cultural foundations produce different migration policies.

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Russian Priest Tells Men Not to Shave to 'Protect From Homosexuality'

A religious leader for Russia's Old Believers has called on Russian men to stop shaving to “protect themselves from homosexuality.”

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Hungary is committed to cooperation with China

Hungary is committed to cooperation with China, and wishes to become the engine of cooperation in health care between China and the Eastern-Central-European region, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén said at the conference of the Health Ministers of the Eastern-Central-European countries and China held in Budapest on Monday.

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Top finalists of Miss World Hungary pageant

Virág Koroknyai wins this year's beauty contest and crowned as Miss World Hungary. Viktória Viczián finished second (left) and Laura Pető finished third place. June 18, 2017. MTI Photo: Zoltán Balogh

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Hungary joins Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

Hungary has joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as the documentation process had been finalized and the initial capital instalment had been transferred to the institution, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, following the annual general meeting of the Beijing-based financial institution held in South-Korea.

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Picture of the day: Bükk National Park has been declared "Star-filled night sky" park by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA)

The photo was made with long exposure showing the Milky Way over Bükk plateau near Répáshuta, Hungary on June 16, 2017. MTI Photo: Péter Komka

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