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Hungary celebrated more than 1,000 years of independence with a Saint Stephen’s Day fireworks display in Budapest on Tuesday. Local media reports suggest the pyrotechnics event — spanning drones, fireworks and voice-over narration — cost over €38 million to put on at the five-kilometre stretch of the city’s major waterway, the Danube River. But rains incorrectly forecasted by meteorologists meant that the Saint Stephen’s Day celebrations were off to a slow start, with the event’s commencement delayed by an hour. “The meteorologists did not do a top job,” one onlooker told Euronews, as many aro…

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