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Hungary will close its border with Croatia at midnight Friday to contain the flow of thousands of migrants arriving daily in the country, before traveling to northern Europe. Hungarian Foreign […]
Residents of the town of Sredets in south-eastern Bulgaria have started a petition in support of the border policeman who shot dead a migrant, Bulgari ...
The recommendation by Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Bulgarian citizens to refrain from trips to Jerusalem is counterproductive and ...
Turkey says it has shot down an aircraft of unknown nationality that had intruded into its airspace near the Syrian border. In a statement, TurkeyR ...
Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev said on October 16 that he deeply regretted the “ludicrous” incident in which a migrant, one of a group of young men that […]
Since the beginning of October 2015, more than 68 000 migrants have now crossed into Greece, with most – close to 42 000 – arriving on the island of Lesvos, […]
The head of the Bulgarian Parliament’s internal security committee has called for a thorough investigation and the allocation of responsibility in the case of the fatal shooting by Border Police […]
Fifteen migrants said to be from Afghanistan were detained in Bulgaria’s Black Sea region of Bourgas after an incident in which the driver of the vehicle in which they were […]
An investigation is continuing into the fatal shooting of a migrant late on the night of October 15 in the Bulgarian town of Sredets after three Border Police encountered a […]
A migrant from Afghanistan was shot dead on the night of October 15 near the town of Sredets in south-eastern Bulgaria, in Bourgas province about 30km from the Bulgarian-Turkish border, after Bulgarian […]
