Standing on the platform in Budapest’s Keleti Station after guiding the final group of refugees onto the trains this past Friday evening, Ibrahim Kasem explained the situation to me. A kindergarten teacher originally from Syria himself (he speaks Arabic), Kasem is one of three translators consistently seen on the platform aiding refugees. He acknowledged that the shortage of professional aid was affecting their abilities to help.

On Thursday, a camerawoman who was fired from a Hungarian news station after being caught tripping and kicking migrants—including small children—apologized for her actions while denying she was a racist or had any ill intent.

After a series of policy reversals by Hungary’s xenophobic government, on Saturday, refugees in that country from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan were able to cross the Hungarian border with Austria and continue on to Germany, the Associated Press reports.

Hungary's tightening vice on its press amounts to "an autocratic crackdown," Philip N. Howard, a professor at the Central European University and at the University of Washington, writes in the New York Times—taking specific aim at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's control of the country's Media Authority, which monitors media competition and issues broadcast licenses:

From time to time, Gawker.com is pleased to present content from Cink.hu, the "foul-mouthed Hungarian news blog" with which we share a parent company. Today, we bring you the story of the wedding of Nick Denton, told by Szily László, and translated by Google.

Gergo Saling, the editor-in-chief of Origo.hu, a popular Hungarian news site, was fired Monday shortly after the site published a series of critical reports about the Hungarian government, the last of which was about State Secretary Janos Lazar and his multimillion travel expenses. Critics are accusing the Hungarian government of taking advantage of its cushy relationship with Deutsche Telekom—the huge telecommunications corporation that owns, through a chain of subsidiaries, Origo.hu—to silence news organizations that criticize the government.

(The beer-through-the-ears video below is brought to you from Cink, which is like Gawker an online publication in the Blogwire Hungary Szellemi Alkotast Hasznosito KFT family.)

The husband of a Bronx woman who weighed 425 pounds at the time of her death says the three airlines that failed to fly her back home for medical treatment are directly responsible for her untimely demise.

Steve Jobs could fairly be remembered as either a madman or as a business deity. If this seven-foot-tall, 485-pound bronze statue out of Hungary is any indication, he'll be worshipped as the latter rather than mocked as the former.

A radio station in Hungary is under investigation by the National Media and Communications Authority for playing the 1993 Ice-T song "Warning (It's On)," because the lyrics "could influence the development of minors in a negative way."

[Angelina Jolie uses her super sniper skills to finally rid herself of her rival. Okay, she was really shooting her movie in Hungary, but it's more fun to pretend. Image via INF]

[A northern plains grey langur (or, Semnopithecus entellus) looks for grapes inside a pumpkin at the Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary today. Image via AP]

Hungarian authorities arrested the director of the industrial plant where toxic red mud spilled, killing at least eight.

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban today said a reservoir wall holding back poisonous red sludge was "very likely" to collapse, and ordered the evacuation of the village of Kolontar. The alumina plant has already spilled 700,000 cubic meters of sludge.

The red toxic sludge that has overtaken entire towns and killed people in Hungary today reached the Danube, Europe's second-longest river. But don't worry, Hungarian officials say the highly toxic alumina spill is no longer a threat to the environment.

[Excavators working on the broken dyke that unleashed a flood of toxic sludge look like they're on the surface of Mars. They're actually in Hungary. Image via AP]

The Hungarian government is calling a toxic sludge spill there an "ecological disaster" and has declared a state of emergency after three people were killed and over 100 injured when a reservoir at an alumina plant ruptured. Six are missing.

[Hungary is in the midst of a heat wave, prompting the government to issue a weather alert. Some Budapest residents were undeterred and ventured outside anyway. Image via AP]

The 11th suspect in the Russian spy case, Christopher Robert Metsos, who was arrested and released on bail in Cyprus on Tuesday, surprisingly didn't show up the next day to speak with police. A manhunt is now underway.

Speaking at the Hungarian University of Economy today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer got egg on his face and not in the figurative sense. Hungary's government spends millions on licenses to use Microsoft software at its universities and this market lockdown is apparently so upsetting to some Hungarians — how will they ever learn to use Linux? — that during today's speech, one attendee stood-up, yelled at Ballmer: "Give back the money of the taxpayers!" and then started chucking eggs. We disapprove, but only because we know Ballmer prefers bananas. A nice banana-cream pie-ing would have made a European matched-pair with the earlier prank on Bill Gates. Watch the egging in the clip embedded above.