HUNGARY: MPs observed the centenary of the Treaty of Trianon yesterday with President Janos Adler calling for “rectification” of the redrawing of its borders after World War I.

He insisted he was talking about the country’s “spiritual borders” but called for the removal of the “curse of Trianon.”

The kingdom of Hungary with the Austro-Hungarian empire ruled large parts of what are now Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine.

KOREA: Seoul will ban activists from flying propaganda leaflets into North Korea, it said yesterday.

Using balloons to fly leaflets into the country attacking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is a common activity by certain South Korean campaign groups.

The North had threatened to withdraw from agreements on defusing tensions if the South did not address the actions of the “human scum” responsible for the balloons.

BELGIUM: Optimistic bar owners are hoping to replace Happy Hour with “Helpy Hour” as the country’s drinking establishments reopen.

The Federation of Belgian Cafes said that instead of getting two drinks for the price of one, customers should get one for the price of two.

The initiative is to help bar owners bear the shock of the economic crisis triggered by the virus.

TURKEY: Three MPs were stripped of their seats yesterday, prompting the opposition to accuse the ruling AKP of being “the enemy of democracy.”

Republican People’s Party MP Enis Berberoglu was punished for leaking images to a newspaper showing Turkish deliveries of weaponry to terrorist groups in Syria, while Peoples’ Democratic Party MPs Leyla Guven and Musa Farisoglullari were accused of links to the banned Kurdistan Workers Party.