Chess legend Judit Polgar on Monday turned down Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar's offer to become the country's next president. "I do not feel I have the strength to take on the historic ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – Hungarian President Pal Schmitt resigned Monday because of a plagiarism scandal regarding a doctoral dissertation he had written 20 years ago on the Olympics. Schmitt, who was ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok speaks during a memorial ceremony for the deportation of Hungarian Germans after ...

Supporters of former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán came out in their thousands in Budapest on July 9 to protest plans to remove the country’s president. At the protest, entitled Stop Tyranny, ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar has nominated Jewish Hungarian chess prodigy and grandmaster Judit Polgar to serve as interim president, he announced on Sunday. Magyar made the nomination after ...

Prime Minister Peter Magyar proposed chess legend Judit Polgar as Hungary’s next president, saying the country needs a head of state “every Hungarian can be proud of“ after the removal of Tamas Sulyok ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's president signed a constitutional amendment into law on Saturday that ends his term in office, bringing to a close a dispute between him and the country's new ...