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The 1,500 refugees at the Karatepe camp on the Greek island of Lesbos are nervous. Since the EU struck a deal with Ankara, they fear they will be sent back […]
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry announced on March 21 2016 the team that will work on the campaign for Irina Bokova to become the next United Nations Se ...
Delyan Peevski said on March 21 2016 that he was pulling out of the planned acquisition of an insolvent fertiliser plant and abandoning “future ...
Bulgaria awarded its highest state honour, the Stara Planina first class, to Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin at a ceremony at the President ...
Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has filed a formal request to Parliament, asking for the House to lift the immunity of socialist MP Svetla Buchvarova-Piralkova as part of an investigation into […]
Bulgarian prosecutors investigating the February 26 death of Omar Zayed, a Palestian fugitive who had sought refuge at the Palestinian embassy in Sofia to avoid an Israeli request to extradite […]
Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev and his Romanian counterpart Mihnea Motoc held talks in Bucharest on March 21 2016, with discussions including a review of ways to strengthen regional co-operation, […]
A judge in a Russian court in Donetsk, Rostov Oblast, started summing up the case against Nadiya Savchenko on March 21, with the Ukrainian pilot widely expected to be found […]
On March 21, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the heads of Europe’s main intergovernmental human rights institutions issued a call for a strong response to xenophobic attacks […]
