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By the 1950s, the waves of Irish immigrants to the US had slowed a bit from what it had been in the late 1800s, but there was still a steady […]
Omar Zayed, who had been the subject of an extradition application to Bulgaria by Israel regarding his escape from jail where he had been serving a li ...
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has described as impertinent comments by Russia describing as “neo-McCarthyism” the Bulgarian National A ...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has told the National Assembly of his frustration with the Greek border blockade, describing it as an outrage ...
Migrant and refugee arrivals in Greece and Italy have exceeded 120 000 in 2016, having reached the 100 000 milestone earlier this week, almost four months earlier than in 2015, […]
Bulgarian prosecutors and police are investigating after the dead body of a man was found in the grounds of the embassy of Palestine in Sofia in the early morning of […]
Nato vessels have been deployed in the Aegean Sea following a decision by the alliance’s defence ministers to assist in operations against people-trafficking networks in response to the refugee and […]
All border checkpoints between Bulgaria and Greece were open on the morning of February 26 2016, according to a Bulgarian Interior Ministry update – but uncertainty remains about whether they […]
“The prosecutors will launch a probe into whether the documents allegedly proving cooperation of Solidarity legend Lech Walesa with communist-era special services were fabricated as Walesa claims, Lukasz Kaminski the […]
Latvia’s foreign minister says NATO needs to increase its presence in the Baltic region, given Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and continued support for separatists in eastern Ukraine. Edgars […]
