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Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov sent letters of condolences to his counterparts in the United States and Turkey, John Kerry and Ahmet Davutoğlu, after the suicide bombing terrorist attack which […]
A protest on February 1 2013 in front of Parliament against Bulgaria’s full ban on smoking in public places would, organisers said, draw more than 2 ...
Vice President Margarita Popova was among those attending a ceremony on February 1 2013 in honour of the memory of the victims of Bulgaria’s communi ...
The 27-member European Union ended 2012 with 10.7 per cent unemployment in December, seasonally adjusted, according to EU statistics office Eurostat. ...
Bulgarian leaders have responded to the hysteria being whipped up in some British publications and by the UKIP about a supposed “flood” of migrants from Bulgaria and Romania to the […]
Armenian police say a gunman has shot and wounded one of the country’s eight presidential candidates. Authorities say Paruir Airikian was shot by an unknown assailant late Thursday in Yerevan, […]
Bulgarian Regional Development and Public Works Minister Liliyana Pavlova has asked prosecutors to intervene to ensure the revocation of all building permits in the Coral beach area on the country’s […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Pleveneliev has awarded seven people with the country’s medal for courage, for actions undertaken to save others’ lives. Four of them were honoured posthumously. Dimitar Lambov and […]
From February 1 2013, Bulgarian traffic police are to conduct large-scale checks that vehicles have road use stickers, known as vignettes, when travelling on roads such as inter-city highways where […]
Airlines such as Lufthansa, Air France and BA have one problem with their European flights; they lose money with them – a lot of money. Their European flights are to […]
