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• Hungary teachers up pressure on Orban in biggest protest in years
• Teachers protest in Hungary, threaten 1-hour strike March 30
• Bishop opposes Notre Dame's decision to give medal to Biden

Hungary teachers up pressure on Orban in biggest protest in years Posted: 15 Mar 2016 01:17 PM PDT Thousands demonstrated in Budapest Tuesday against Prime Minister Viktor Orban's policies as teachers unhappy at education sector reforms threatened to down tools unless the combative premier apologised to the "humiliated" people. "If, within 8 days by March 23, Prime Minister Viktor Orban (does) not apologise to the people humiliated during the last six years then we will call a national one-hour stop to work on March 30," Istvan Pukli, a headmaster of a prestigious Budapest high school, told the crowd. "Life would stop in Hungary for one hour," he said, adding that two and three-hour stops would follow if the move did not have any effect.

Teachers protest in Hungary, threaten 1-hour strike March 30 Posted: 15 Mar 2016 10:45 AM PDT BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian teachers demonstrated against the government's education policies Tuesday and warned they will hold a one-hour strike March 30 unless leaders apologize for their intimidating treatment and initiate meaningful talks on education reforms.

Bishop opposes Notre Dame's decision to give medal to Biden Posted: 15 Mar 2016 10:42 AM PDT SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The University of Notre Dame should not award Vice President Joe Biden its top award because it sends a message that a politician can support abortion rights and gay marriage and still be a good Catholic, the bishop of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese said.

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