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Seven civilians were killed in shelling in Donbas by the afternoon of February 1. A 66-year old woman was killed by a shell in her house in a village in […]
Six Bulgarian air crew members working for the World Food Programme who had been held by a rebel group had been freed and were in a safe place in Sout ...
The head of the Bulgarian government’s Employment Agency, Assen Angelov, has been dismissed. Angelov was appointed in December 2013, a time when ...
A partial state of emergency was declared in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Bourgas on February 1, and emergencies were declared in Smolyan and Devin ...
The new 82km fence that Bulgaria plans to build at its border with Turkey will be higher, wider and well dug into the ground, nothing like the temporary fence built […]
The solemn rituals of a state funeral were held in Sofia’s Alexander Nevsky cathedral for former president Zhelyu Zhelev on February 1, which was also a day of national mourning. […]
The death sentences and labour camps as the communist regime extended its grip on Bulgaria 70 years ago did not crush the freedom of the human spirit, President Rossen Plevneliev […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who presides over Europe’s largest and strongest economy, has again ruled out debt forgiveness for Greece’s international rescue loans. In interviews appearing Saturday in the German […]
