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The opening of Sofia’s new metro underground railway line was celebrated by offering free rides to all users from the afternoon to the end of the day on August 31 […]
Bulgaria’s Environment Ministry on August 31 issued a new ban on construction in the Kamchiya Sands area, responding to the concerns of environmenta ...
Lufthansa flights between Frankfurt and Sofia, including a flight arriving in the Bulgarian capital at 1pm and a scheduled departure at 1.40pm, were c ...
Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency has issued a reminder that by the end of October, all coffee vending machines, parking voucher payment machine, s ...
A week after controversy erupted about his “joke” likening socialism to AIDS, the Bulgarian Socialist Party’s Anton Koutev apologised for the difficulties caused – to the other socialists. The saga […]
Teams from Bulgaria’s anti-organised crime police, customs, tax and labour authorities, food safety inspectors and Culture Ministry staff raided three striptease bars, three nightclubs and a sex club in the […]
Police in the Ugandan capital Kampala arrested four Bulgarians for attempting to use skimming devices to drain money from automated bank teller machines. The four were found to be in […]
Euro zone seasonally-adjusted unemployment was 11.3 per cent in July 2012, stable compared with June, EU statistics office Eurostat said on August 31 2012. It was 10.1 per cent in July 2011. […]
An ancient incense vessel in the shape of a bull’s head, estimated to date from the sixth century BCE, has been found by archaeologists on St Kirik island off the […]
Global food prices soared by 10 per cent in July 2012 from a month ago, with maize and soybean reaching all-time peaks because of an unprecedented summer of droughts and […]
