Hungary has awarded three new hydrocarbon exploration concessions to state-owned MVM and energy giant MOL as Budapest seeks to strengthen domestic energy production and reduce reliance on foreign supplies. The winning companies will be able to explore for and produce oil and natural gas for at least 20 years.

This year’s Sziget Festival has attracted visitors from 112 countries across all six inhabited continents, with foreigners accounting for around half of the audience. The event has also drawn journalists from more than 40 countries and hundreds of international media outlets.

A Moroccan migrant who entered Ceuta during the mass invasion was reportedly arrested over the alleged street rape of a ‘young Moroccan woman’. While local media reports contradict one another over the case, a pattern of sexual violence is already clear in the Spanish enclave, with courts proceeding in at least six rape cases involving three Moroccan suspects and minor victims.

Kristóf Milák led Hungary’s best night of the European Aquatics Championships on Thursday, first breaking the European record to win the 100m butterfly and then delivering a 46.29 anchor split in a historic 4x100m freestyle relay triumph. Hungary took its first European title in the event, already securing three gold medals during the tournament so far.

Famous American investigative journalist James O’Keefe dressed up in traditional Muslim attire to test Minnesota’s ‘voter vouching scheme’. Assuming fake identities at polling stations, he received confirmation from poll workers that he was allowed to vouch for up to eight other people, who would then be able to complete same-day registration and vote, all without anyone having to show any ID.

Foreign online marketplaces are accounting for an increasing share of Hungary’s e-commerce turnover, prompting the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) to increase its scrutiny of the sector. The authority said it has recovered tens of billions of forints for Hungarian consumers since April 2020.