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A train completely wrecked some guy who was passed out on the tracks near Luveve when the driver spotted him, but could not stop in time. The 43-year-old conductor was heading from Bulawayo toward Victoria Falls when his train hit the victim and severed both legs. Dude somehow survived getting...

A massive storm trashed part of Khami Prisons Complex near Bulawayo when strong winds ripped through the medium-security facility and damaged three cell blocks plus 160 meters of perimeter fence. No inmates got hurt, and everyone stayed calm while officers moved them to safer buildings during...

A woman in Mt Pleasant got her 45,000-dollar Land Rover Discovery 4 back just hours after reporting it stolen when cops tracked it down nearby. Juliet Paradzai had left the SUV sitting in her carport with a dead battery for three months, and someone swiped it overnight because both the main gate...

Myanmar's central bank dumped over 1.2 million dollars into the edible oil import sector after buying foreign currency from CMP companies. The institution has been flooding the market with cash across multiple currencies to stop the exchange rate from tanking. The bank moved more than 21...

Yangon City Development Committee wants private developers to build affordable housing across three townships through a public-private partnership setup. The project covers Dagon Myothit South with 36 six-story apartment blocks and 20 shops, Dagon Seikkan with ten residential buildings, and...

Allegheny Financial just kicked off prep work for a four-tower project in Zagreb's Zavrtnica area that will pack 616 apartments across 23-story buildings. The company got its first construction permit seven years back, and the site covers around 123,000 square meters with a modern design from...

Croatian tourism giant Valamar is dropping 245 million euros on upgrades, with most of the cash going toward finishing the Pical resort in Poreč. The five-star property is supposed to open next spring, and the company is calling it the biggest tourism project Croatia has ever seen. The Pical...

Prosecutors hit 14 people with hooliganism charges after they allegedly chucked rocks, fireworks, and bottles at cops during a protest in Sofia. Ten suspects are locked up for 72 hours, while the others got released with conditions. Six of them already have criminal records for stuff like...

Parliament tanked President Rumen Radev's euro referendum proposal after his office refused to send anyone to defend it, and his press team clapped back, saying lawmakers had eight months to review the plan but never cared about what voters wanted anyway. Speaker Raya Nazaryan tried calling the...

Bulgaria and Egypt are leveling up their partnership after their joint economic commission finally met again in Cairo following a six-year gap. Economy Minister Petar Dilov and Egyptian Planning Minister Rania Al Mashat signed off on plans to boost collaboration across defense manufacturing...

Alexander Rusanov just rage-quit his spot running the Control Council for Continue the Change after his own party voted against President Rumen Radev's push for a euro referendum. The lawyer posted on Facebook saying the party ditched its original values and started working with the exact...

Someone vandalized the Dimitar Peshev monument in Sofia, and the Organization of Jews in Bulgaria Shalom is calling it part of a bigger pattern. Peshev gets credit worldwide for helping save Bulgarian Jews during World War II, and the group says trashing his memorial disrespects everyone who...

Parliament just nuked next year's state budget along with the Health Fund and State Social Insurance budgets after MPs from GERB-SDF, BSP-United Left, and There Is Such a People submitted the withdrawal proposal. The vote passed with 201 MPs backing it, while Velichye sat out completely. PP-DB...

GERB leader Boyko Borisov dropped a video on Instagram saying his party is done getting pushed around, and coalition partners need to respect what regular people actually want. He mentioned that GERB successfully got Bulgaria into the eurozone and Schengen, but from here on out, they're putting...

Financial analyst Kuzman Iliev from the political party Bulgaria Can says the draft budget deserves all the heat it's getting, but he thinks it's just more of the same garbage from previous years. He went on Radio Focus and said the protests happening right now are basically a power play, and...

Parliament shot down Rumen Radev's referendum proposal about euro adoption after the Constitutional Court forced them to actually vote on it, and 135 lawmakers rejected the idea while 81 backed it. Vazrazhdane pushed for the vote since the court ruled that the former speaker could not just...

Krasimir Karakachanov from VMRO went after Borisov for acting happy about protests forcing a budget withdrawal, and the former defense minister asked why the party leader could not just stop his government from pushing garbage fiscal plans in the first place. Karakachanov said GERB has been...

Bulgaria just jacked up the price for amateur fishing permits from 25 leva to 50 leva starting next year, and Nikolay Georgiev from the fisheries agency explained the fees have been stuck at 2006 levels while everything else got expensive. The director pointed out that catching one decent carp...

Tsvetan Tsvetanov dropped a massive Facebook post trashing Boyko Borisov for wrecking GERB after he helped launch the whole thing back in the day. The former Interior Minister and founding chairman said Borisov made backroom deals with MRF starting around 2017 despite promising voters they would...

Kostadin Kostadinov from Vazrazhdane told parliament the government is cooking the books to shove Bulgaria into the eurozone while trashing the lev, and he thinks the current coalition has maybe a few weeks left before it collapses. The party leader claimed massive street protests showed people...