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Sun-worshipers at Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Varna opened the sunbathing season on April 28 as the city became one of seven places to set temperature records for the day, […]
The first tourists ahead of the summer tourist season arrived in Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort of Albena on April 27. The group of about 200 arrived f ...
A group of Bulgarians twice blocked the Ilinden-Exochi border crossing with Greece, on April 27 and 28, alleging discrimination against Bulgarians by ...
Thrasyvoulos “Terry” Stamatopoulos, Greece’s ambassador to Bulgaria since February 2012, has been appointed Nato assistant secretary-general for ...
Iceland’s center-right opposition declared victory Sunday in parliamentary elections, as voters punished the incumbent leftist government for harsh austerity measures imposed during its four years as ruling party. The win […]
According to the first poll carried out after the April 15 announcement of the initial findings by prosecutors investigating the eavesdropping controversy, the row that has dominated headlines has had […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has expressed frustration at the preoccupation with the eavesdropping controversy and urged politicians to debate issues relevant to the reasonable demands of people. Plevneliev made the […]
The majority of Serbian parties represented in parliament supported the agreement about normalisation of relations between Belgrade and Pristina. The agreement that had been initialled in Brussels on April 19 and […]
While Bulgaria’s premier place in Jewish history is in the prevention of the deportation of about 48 000 Bulgarian Jews to Holocaust death camps in World War 2, a landmark […]
Between 10 000 and 12 000 people gathered for the March of the Living (Élet menete) on Sunday in commemoration of the 600 000 Hungarian victims of the Holocaust. The […]
