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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud-Yisrael Beteinu has shed support, according to exit polls after the January 22 2013 election, but has emerged with a narrow majority and seems […]
Amid rising speculation that she is in ill health and is not being allowed to properly consult with her lawyers, imprisoned former Ukrainian Yulia Tym ...
Bulgaria’s Council for Electronic Media, the statutory body charged with overseeing the country’s electronic media, has criticised the broadcast m ...
A NASA orbiter flying around Mars is showing evidence of an ancient underground-fed lake at the bottom of a crater, another sign that the planet may h ...
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has denied a request filed under the Access to Public Information Act to disclose any data on the amount paid as bonuses to the ministry’s employees in […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev hosted the first meeting of the “council of presidents”, an informal meeting with his predecessors, on January 22, the first anniversary of taking office. The current […]
In the latest twist in the process of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church choosing a new head to succeed the late Patriarch Maxim, governing body the Holy Synod has ordered a […]
Ahead of Bulgaria’s January 27 2013 referendum on nuclear energy, the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party – which is leading the campaign for a yes vote – appears to have made […]
Sofia Regional Court ordered on January 22 2013 that Oktai Enimehmedov, the man witnessed by television viewers and hundreds of eyewitnesses pointing a gas pistol at Ahmed Dogan at a […]
European Parliament’s budgetary controls committee has voted a resolution chastising three European Union member states that have been granted EU aid for decommissioning nuclear capacities, Bulgaria included, for not using […]
