Second-seeded Elena Dementieva overcame a slow start to beat Agnes Szavay of Hungary 7-6 (4), 6-1 on Thursday and set up a quarterfinal match against Marion Bartoli at the Porsche Grand Prix.

Thousands of mourners headed Wednesday to the funeral of Jeno Koka, the fifth Hungarian Gypsy shot to death in a series of crimes police say may have been committed by the same group.

Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday rejected requests from the governments of Ireland, Croatia and Hungary seeking information about the deaths of three of their citizens whom Bolivia accuses of plotting to assassinate Morales.

Hungary’s government said Tuesday there is no credible evidence so far that a group made up of Hungarians and other Europeans plotted to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales.

Hungary’s new prime minister said Sunday that the country’s economy would contract by as much as 6 percent this year, making new budget cutbacks and reforms necessary to keep the state budget in balance.

Several thousand people held anti-government protests in the Hungarian capital during a national holiday on Sunday, and police detained 35 people.

An 87-year-old man accused of killing a Jewish teenager in Hungary during World War II asked an Australian court on Tuesday to prevent his extradition to Hungary, and claimed the results of a lie detector test prove he had nothing to do with the death.

Hungary’s prime minister warned of a new economic “Iron Curtain” being drawn unless leaders at Sunday’s European Union summit acted to protect the bloc’s weakest members from drowning in the global economic crisis.

Beyond cloaking parts of Europe in winter’s icy grip, the two-week cutoff of Russian gas to Europe has exposed another chilling threat _ Russia’s strategic energy clout and the West’s limited options.

The operator of Hungary’s main airport says employees have gone on strike there and passengers may face delays.