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Migrants shout slogans in front of the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, as hundreds demanded to be let on trains to Germany. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the southern border with Serbia. Many apply for asylum but quickly try to leave for richer EU countries. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Hungary blocks migrants from trains; 11 drown off Turkey

By Shawn Pogatchnik - Associated Press

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has generated headlines with his call for a 13-foot-high fence along Hungary's 110-mile border with Serbia to keep out immigrants seeking to travel from southern Europe to Germany and other wealthy countries. (Associated Press)

Viktor Orban of Hungary antagonizes European Union with border fence, Russia embrace

By Ani Horvath - Special To The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 file photo, Professor emeritus of City University of New York and Director of Rosenthal Institute Randolph L. Braham, left, jokes as he takes over the Medium Cross of the Order of the Republic of Hungary from Deputy State Secretary of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry Janos Hovari in the Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest, Hungary. Holocaust survivor and historian Randolph L. Braham said Sunday he is returning a high state award to Hungary to protest what he says are government efforts to rewrite history and exonerate the country from its role in the Holocaust. Braham also asked the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest to remove his name from the BrahamTheque Information Center, which collects his research results and publications. Braham, born in Romania in 1922, said in an open letter addressed to executives of the memorial center that the &quot;straw that broke the camel's back&quot; leading to his decision was the government plan to erect a memorial commemorating the March 1944 invasion of Hungary by the Nazis. Braham said the memorial was &quot;a cowardly attempt to detract attention from the Horthy regime's involvement in the destruction of the Jews and to homogenize the Holocaust with the 'suffering' of the Hungarians — a German occupation, as the record clearly shows, was not only unopposed but generally applauded.&quot; (AP Photo/MTI, Lajos Soos, file)

Holocaust historian returning award to Hungary

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (Associated Press)

Clinton tries to prod Budapest back to values of democracy

By Ben Birnbaum - The Washington Times

File - A crowd of over 10,000 gather for the opening of the Terror House, a museum dedicated to the horrors of communism and the building where people were interrogated and tortured, Budapest, Hungary, in this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2002 file photo. People spied on by Hungary's communist-era secret police would have the right to destroy their surveillance reports under a government proposal historians say would damage the country's ability to acknowledge its past. Maria Schmidt, director of Budapest's House of Terror museum, said she hoped lawmakers would rethink the plan. "If these files are handed over, facts and connections will be no longer be able to be researched," Schmidt said. (AP Photo/Eileen Kovchok, file)

Historians want Hungary communist files protected

By Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press

Hungary firm head detained over toxic sludge

By Bela Szandelszky and Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press

Hungary sludge reservoir at risk of collapse

By Bela Szandelszky and Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press