Rocking the Iron Curtain: How Queen’s 1986 Budapest concert cracked the Soviet Bloc

On 27 July 1986, a concert by British rock band Queen in Budapest symbolically tore down the Iron Curtain. A crowd of 80,000 filled the People’s Stadium to feel the first wave of freedom. The band’s official photographer Denis O’Regan recalls that night in an exclusive interview with Euronews.

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Rescuers scramble to locate survivors as death toll climbs to 13 after powerful quake hits southwestern Japan

Dozens more remain trapped underneath the rubble as authorities race against the clock to save as many people as possible during the critical 72 hour rescue period. The tremor is the most powerful to hit the region in 10 years since a 7.0 magnitude quake recorded in 2016.

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