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Bulgaria’s cabinet said that October 3 would be a national day of mourning in response to the blast at an explosives plant in Gorni Lom, with the cabinet saying that […]
The morning after the devastating blast at an explosives plant in the north-western Bulgarian village of Gorni Lom saw no clarity about the fate of workers who had been at […]
Three members of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (the MRF), the party led and supported in the main by Bulgarians of Turkish ethnicity, have been penalised by the Central […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Wednesday that the fight against the Islamic State group and other extremist groups has become Turkey’s top priority. But Erdogan’s declaration comes as Ankara […]
An election campaign poster by the far-right Bulgarian National Union-New Democracy party in the country’s early parliamentary elections on October 5 has led to a complaint by an NGO for […]
At least three people were injured in a powerful blast at an explosives factory in Gorni Lom in Bulgaria’s Vidin region on October 1. Unconfirmed media reports said that about […]
After years of uncertainty and disputes about the ownership of Sofia landmark Alexander Nevsky cathedral, Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet settled the matter by handing a title deed to the Bulgarian Orthodox […]
Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet has approved a reshuffle of funding to pay for three steps to improve land border security, the government media office said on October 1. The cabinet approved […]
U.S.-led airstrikes hit near a key Syrian border town for a second day, as Kurdish fighters defend the area from Islamic State militants. The U.S. military confirmed three strikes Wednesday […]
Bulgarian and Spanish judicial and law enforcement authorities, working in close co-operation with Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) in The Hague, have dismantled another significant Bulgarian organised crime network suspecte ...
