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Bosnian police have arrested 11 people suspected of alleged ties with Islamic State and its militants fighting in Syria and Iraq. The prosecutor’s office said in a statement Tuesday searches […]
The United States Treasury Department Tuesday imposed sanctions on 34 individuals and entities for previous sanctions evasion and other activities rel ...
Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has lodged a challenge in the Constitutional Court to amendments approved by Parliament in September lift ...
A total of 58 140 children were born in Bulgaria between January 1 and December 20 2015, 4037 – or about 6.5 per cent – fewer than in the ...
Persecution, conflict and poverty have forced an unprecedented one million people to flee to Europe in 2015, according to estimates by the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR and the International Organization […]
In a just few months since the summer, more than 60 000 Greek companies have “emigrated” to Bulgaria, according to the Greek retail association ESEE. Greek companies had applied for […]
Iran can serve as a gateway for Bulgarian goods to third-country markets, Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov said at a meeting with his Iranian counterpart in Tehran, while he and Mohammad […]
The Czech parliament called on the government to ignore the EU’s labelling guidelines for Israeli products from the West Bank and Golan Heights issued by the EU Commission in November, […]
The European Union has renewed its economic sanctions against Russia for six months over its involvement in the Ukraine crisis. The 28-member body extended the sanctions until July 31, 2016, […]
International agencies are condemning a new public campaign by Hungary they say promotes intolerance and fear, and fuels xenophobia against refugees and migrants. The U.N. refugee agency, the Council of […]
