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Temperature highs in Bulgaria were expected to once again exceed 40 degrees Celsius on August 24 as the heat wave shows no sign of abating, the country’s Meteorology institute said. […]
US rock artist Lenny Kravitz has postponed his Sofia concert, scheduled for September 30, citing the shooting delay on a film as the reason, but promi ...
Relatives of the sailors from the crew of a Bulgarian ship seized by Spanish authorities with a cargo of three tons of cocaine last week said on Augus ...
Bulgarian tourism officials said on August 23 that the brewing crisis involving about 1000 foreign tourists who had bought holiday packages in Bulgari ...
Bulgarian border police arrested 10 Syrians and a Turkish citizen accompanying them after the group was spotted attempting an illegal border crossing from Turkey into Bulgaria, the Interior Ministry in […]
A fire that broke out at 1400m in Bulgaria’s Rila mountain on August 23 – the second such blaze at high altitude in the area in recent days – was […]
Macedonia’s government, having been given 46.4 million euro financing by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, plans to start an upgrade of a 30km rail link between Kumanovo and […]
A further 17 kilometres of the Trakiya Motorway, from Yambol to Petolachkata near the town of Sliven, will open this coming weekend, Bulgaria’s Regional Development and Public Works Minister Liliana […]
Transport companies in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv region are considering a further increase in long-distance bus ticket prices because of the country’s soaring liquid fuel prices. Some of the companies said that […]
Taxi fares will increase by about 20 stotinki (about 10 euro cents) a kilometre after not having been hiked for the past five years, Bulgaria’s Taxi Association said on August […]
