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Bulgaria has announced a “Code Orange” dangerous weather warning for five regions because of heavy rainfall expected on February 1 2015. The regions are Smolyan, Haskovo, Yambol, Bourgas and Kurdjali. […]
Donetsk endured two more devastating attacks on January 30, when at least seven residents were killed after a shell hit a line near a humanitarian aid ...
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) upheld genocide convictions against two senior Bosnian Ser ...
reece’s new left-wing government was in open dispute Friday with its European bailout creditors, saying it would not negotiate with European Union a ...
Romania wants to build a Dracula theme park in Transylvania, the head of the national tourism agency said, reviving an idea which dates back to more than a decade ago […]
Bulgaria’s cabinet has declared Sunday February 1 2015 a national day of mourning after the death of Zhelyu Zhelev, who was president of Bulgaria from 1990 to 1997, the country’s […]
Bulgaria has seized more than 2000 ancient and medieval objects during two major operations against an international crime group trafficking in antiquities. The State Agency for National Security (SANS) announced […]
Nato defence ministers are to decide at a meeting in Brussels on February 5 on deploying alliance command centres in Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. This is according […]
Members of Parliament held a minute of silence on January 30 after the announcement of the death at the age of 79 of Zhelyu Zhelev, the country’s first democratically-elected president, […]
Zhelyu Zhelev, the first democratically-elected president of Bulgaria after communism ended in the country, has died at the age of 79. Born on March 3 1935 in the Shoumen area, […]
