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Rescue team members are seen on a barge floating on the Danube river where a sightseeing boat capsized in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, June 1, 2019. As divers descended Friday into the Danube, Hungarian authorities predicted it would take an extended search to find the 21 people still missing after a boat carrying South Korean tourists was rammed by a cruise ship and sank into the river in Budapest. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)

The Latest: Hungary IDs 7 Korean victims of boat sinking

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Rescue team members are seen on a barge floating on the Danube river where a sightseeing boat capsized in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, June 1, 2019. As divers descended Friday into the Danube, Hungarian authorities predicted it would take an extended search to find the 21 people still missing after a boat carrying South Korean tourists was rammed by a cruise ship and sank into the river in Budapest. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)

Cruise ship captain arrested in deadly Budapest boat crash

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

People hug at the Margit bridge on the Danube as they watch rescue crews at work after a vessel capsized in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, May 30, 2019. Rescue crews in Hungary's capital were preparing to raise a sightseeing boat from the Danube river Thursday as search teams scoured the waters for 21 people missing after the vessel, packed with South Korean tourists, collided with a larger cruise ship and sank. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

S. Korean survivors recall chaos after Budapest boat sinking

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Kang Kyung-wha, center, foreign minister of South Korea, together with her Hungarian counterpart, Peter Szijjarto, right, visits the bank of the Danube River close to Margit Bridge where a sightseeing boat capsized in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, May 31, 2019. Hungarian police have detained the captain of a cruise ship that collided with the sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists, causing it to sink quickly in the river in Budapest, as loved ones of the missing and dead were expected to arrive Friday in Hungary. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

The Latest: ‘Unique’ method needed to salvage sunken boat

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FILE - In this April 16, 2014, file photo, South Korean rescue helicopters fly over South Korean ferry Sewol, trying to rescue passengers from the ship in waters off Jindo, South Korea. The deadly sinking of a boat in Hungary carrying South Korean tourists on Thursday, May 30, 2019, is touching a nerve in South Korea, where many are still traumatized over a 2014 ferry sinking that killed more than 300 people, mostly school kids. That grief is compounded by some South Korean tour agents and travelers' claims that there have long been worries over safety at the site where the collision happened. (Yonhap via AP, File)

Tour boat sinking revives memories of SKorea ferry disaster

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

A rescue boat searches for victims late Wednesday, May 29, 2019, after a tourist boat crashed with a river cruise boat, in River Danube in Budapest. The boat capsized and sunk in the river Wednesday evening, with dozens of people on board, including passengers and crew, Hungarian media reported.(Peter Lakatos/MTI via AP)

The Latest: Police take cruise ship captain into custody

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Responders sit in a rubber dinghy preparing for the search of victims next to a landing dock after a tourist boat crashed with another ship late Wednesday, May 29, 2019. The boat capsized and sunk in the Danube River Wednesday evening, May 29, 2019, in Budapest, with dozens of people on board, including passengers and crew, Hungarian media reported. (Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP)

7 dead, 21 missing after South Korean tour boat sinks in Hungary

By Pablo Gorondi and Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, talks as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens, during a joint press conference after their meeting in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. Pompeo is in Budapest on the first leg of a five-nation European tour during which he said he would raise American concerns about China and Russia's growing influence in Central Europe. (Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP)

U.S. warns Hungary, other allies to shun business with Huawei

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 photo government commissioner in charge of the development of Hungary's film industry, Andy Vajna, participates in a discussion in the headquarters of the Hungarian National Film Fund in Budapest. On Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 the Hollywood producer, who was a prominent figure of the Hungarian and international film industry, died at the age of 74 after a long illness in his Budapest home. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP, file)

‘Rambo,’ ‘Total Recall’ producer Andy Vajna dies at 74

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Protesters in Hungary reject Orban’s nationalist government

By PABLO GORONDI and ELDAR EMRIC - Associated Press

Hungary protests give opposition a chance to work together

By ELDAR EMRIC and PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Macedonia to seek arrest in Hungary of former prime minister

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES and PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, June 8, 2017 file photo, Hungarian-American investor and CEU founder George Soros attends a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany. Central European University says it will move its U.S.-accredited programs from Hungary’s capital of Budapest to the Austrian capital of Vienna because of uncertainty over its academic freedom. (AP Photo/Ferdinand Ostrop, file)

Soros-backed university in Hungary partly moving to Vienna

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

D.C. United midfielder Zoltan Stieber (18) and Colorado Rapids defender Edgar Castillo (2) battle for the ball during the first half of an MLS soccer match in Washington, Saturday, July 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Zoltan Stieber adds Hungarian flair

By David Driver — Special to The Washington Times

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Tuesday Sept.11, 2018. The European Parliament debates whether Hungary should face political sanctions for policies that opponents say are against the EU's democratic values and the rule of law. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

EU lawmakers move to punish Hungary over rule of law

By LORNE COOK and PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Illustration on Hungarian resistance to Islamic encroachment by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

‘No submission to Islam’

By Daniel Pipes

Financier George Soros is out of step with what a clear majority of what Hungarians want, says Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's minister of foreign affairs and trade. (Associated Press)

George Soros, Budapest-born financier, shined in spotlight with ‘Stop Soros Bill’

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, shakes hands with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, left, during their meeting at the US State Department in Washington, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Hungary a ‘natural ally’ of Trump as Pompeo, Peter Szijjarto meet

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Hungarian Prime Minister and Chairman of Fidesz Party Viktor Orban, center, and Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Christian Democratic Party Zsolt Semjen, left, celebrate the win of Fidesz and the Christian Democrats at the election night watch event after the general elections in Budapest, Hungary, late Sunday, April 8, 2018. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his "decisive" re-election victory and the super majority in parliament his right-wing populist party appeared to have won Sunday were "an opportunity to defend Hungary." (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

Viktor Orban, Hungarian populist, wins new term, party super majority

By Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press

One of the daughters of the politician Katrina Lantos Swett touches the statue of her father, late US Congressman of Hungarian origin Tom Lantos during the unveiling ceremony near Lantos' former school, Berzsenyi Daniel Secondary School, in Tom Lantos Walk in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. (Noemi Bruzak/MTI via AP)

Holocaust survivor, US lawmaker Lantos gets Budapest statue

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press