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Bulgaria won the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest for the song "Bangaranga".
By Francois Murphy, Reuters
Bulgaria has won the Eurovision Song Contestfor the first time on Saturday (local time) in a final overshadowed by five countries' boycott over Gaza, claiming a dramatic victory despite another big public vote for Israel that secured it second place.
The garish and usually good-natured competition involving pop acts from countries across Europe and beyond, now in its 70th year, has been plunged into crisis by a dispute over Israel's military offensive in Gaza, a response to the Hamas-led attack on 7 October, 2023.
