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Croatia's state-owned ferry company is about to drop serious cash on getting its boat situation sorted out. The government plans to grab somewhere between 10 and 20 new ships over the next few years, and the whole thing will run around 200 million euros. State officials made it clear that...

Chunky Panday showed up on India's Got Talent and absolutely killed it with his comedy bits. He joked that every dude in the country has Malaika Arora posters in their room, but then flipped it by asking whose poster she keeps, answering his own question with Chunky Panday. The whole studio lost...

Someone went off about Greatman Music, asking Fadzayi Mahere for wheelchair donations. They said it was wild to hit up a random private person like she's responsible for fixing government failures. The whole point is that wheelchairs should come from actual state resources like the Zimbabwean...

BYD is throwing up a monster EV factory complex that literally dwarfs San Francisco in total footprint. The Chinese company basically decided to cram everything under one roof, from battery plants to parts suppliers to final assembly, which lets them pump out vehicles way faster and cheaper...

Zimbabwe's finance minister dropped a budget that basically screams how broke the country actually is. The government can only scrape together 9.5 billion dollars for everything next year, which gets completely embarrassing when you realize one South African grocery chain pulls in 12 billion...

Dharmendra's family split his memorial into two completely separate events because things got awkward with the whole two-wife situation. His first wife, Prakash Kaur, and sons Sunny plus Bobby Deol threw a gathering in Mumbai that pulled massive Bollywood names like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan...

The Deol family threw a memorial gathering for Dharmendra after the Bollywood legend died, and they actually called it a celebration of life instead of the usual prayer meet setup. Singer Sonu Nigam apparently performed the late actor's songs during the event while tons of industry people showed...

Kapil Sharma is heading back to COLOURS after an 11-year gap following their messy professional breakup that killed Comedy Nights with Kapil. The comedian who basically avoided the channel since then will pop up on Laughter Chefs Unlimited Entertainment alongside his old buddies Krushna Abhishek...

Shah Rukh Khan rolled up to the prayer gathering for legendary Bollywood actor Dharmendra, who died at 89 after decades of dominating Indian cinema. His son Aryan showed up earlier at the Mumbai venue, while other massive names like Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with husband Abhishek, plus Salman Khan...

Hasan Ademov from APS told reporters the government won't scrap their budget proposal because they're scared of taking the political hit. He pointed out that claims about having no other options turned out to be complete nonsense since alternative plans exist, and the coalition is just...

Ivo Hristov, who used to work for President Radev, basically said BSP turned into a puppet party that only survives because it grabbed some government positions to hand out jobs to loyalists. The former MEP thinks they might not even clear the entry threshold next election cycle and claimed...

Vazrazhdane MP Petar Petrov told reporters the ruling coalition is trying to speedrun a leadership purge at three major security agencies through sketchy parliamentary moves that dodge normal legislative procedure. DPS-New Beginning apparently snuck amendments into a bill about police...

We Continue the Change dropped another rally date for people mad about the budget mess. They're calling everyone to show up in Sofia at 6 pm on December 1 because GERB supposedly promised to scrap the proposal, then immediately backtracked with help from New Beginning, while ITN and BSP stayed...

Bulgarian pharmacies are screaming that patients might get screwed after the New Year because the National Health Insurance Fund owes them around 60 million leva and keeps ghosting payment deadlines. Evgeni Antonov from the pharmacists group said small shops are getting buried since they front...

Two economists told parliament that yanking back the 3 billion leva getting funneled into private pension funds every year would fix the budget mess without jacking up social security contributions. Lyubomir Hristov and Viktor Papazov pitched this at a Vazrazhdane debate, where the pension...

Boyko Borisov from GERB got into it with Assen Vassilev from We Continue the Change outside parliament over next year's budget, with Democratic Bulgaria's Ivaylo Mirchev jumping in after Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said tripartite talks were back on. Mirchev told Borisov that Peevski was...

Mayor Izet Shaban dropped an emergency declaration for Ardino after massive rain hammered the area and wrecked the infrastructure connecting six villages. The concrete bridge over the Arda River near Kitnitsa got totally swamped, which cut off Rusalsko, Lyubino, Latinka, Avramovо, Pesnopoy, and...

Associate Professor Velev explained that when kids run hot, it actually means their immune system is doing its job and creating a hostile environment for whatever bug invaded their body. Parents shouldn't freak out and start throwing antibiotics at viral infections just because the thermometer...

Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev walked out of detention around noon and immediately got emotional with his wife Kamelia before telling reporters his kids were getting the first hug. He said the city needs to get back to regular business, but his family comes first. Kotsev basically told everyone...

Bulgaria wrapped up everything they needed to do for the Rudozem-Xanthi border crossing back in 2023, but Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev told parliament the holdup is on Greece's end with admin stuff and technical paperwork. He was responding to questions about why the checkpoint still isn't...