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About 300 migrants have staged a sit-in on railway tracks connecting Greece and Macedonia, forcing a train to turn back. Refugees say the country’s entry limits are now too stringent. […]
Bulgarian law enforcement has been continuing a countrywide special operation focusing on night clubs, drivers of luxury 4x4s, and private security guards, according to an Interior Ministry statement on February […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has joined the controversy over Parliament’s decision to set up an ad hoc committee to examine alleged interference by Turkey and Russia in Bulgarian domestic […]
An earthquake of four on the Richter Scale, 10km north of Novo Selo in the Republic of Macedonia on February 28, was felt in the Bulgarian municipalities of Sandanski, Kresna […]
Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry said on February 27 2016 that a large-scale police operation had been carried out in capital city Sofia and in cities across the country against dangerous show-off […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov visited the Bulgarian – Greek border on February 27, crossing it to speak to Greek police, customs officials and farmers – and telling them what […]
A delegation from the Palestinian authority was due in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia on February 27 to investigate the death of Omar Zayed, who had been the subject of an […]
The foreign ministers of European Union countries that border the Mediterranean Sea warned member states Friday against “unilateral actions” in dealing with the massive influx of migrants into the continent. […]
The parliament of Kosovo on February 26 2016 elected, with 71 votes in favour and 10 invalid votes, Hashim Thaci, the current leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, to […]
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 […]
