Bulgaria confers highest state honour on visiting Vatican Secretary of State
Bulgaria awarded its highest state honour, the Stara Planina first class, to Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin at a ceremony
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Month: March 2016
Bulgaria Prosecutor-General asks Parliament to lift immunity of socialist MP
Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has filed a formal request to Parliament, asking for the House to lift the immunity of
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Bulgarian prosecutors do not believe death of Palestinian Zayed was murder
Bulgarian prosecutors investigating the February 26 death of Omar Zayed, a Palestian fugitive who had sought refuge at the Palestinian
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Bulgarian, Romanian defence ministers in talks on boosting co-operation
Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev and his Romanian counterpart Mihnea Motoc held talks in Bucharest on March 21 2016, with
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Russian court prepares to find Savchenko guilty of murder
A judge in a Russian court in Donetsk, Rostov Oblast, started summing up the case against Nadiya Savchenko on March
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Attacks against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are unacceptable, European human rights bodies say
On March 21, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the heads of Europe’s main intergovernmental human rights institutions
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Greece struggles as EU-Turkey refugee deal comes into force
Greece has begun moving migrants from its islands to the mainland but will not be able to return refugees to
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EU-Turkey deal leaves refugees stranded in Greece
The deal struck Friday between the European Union and Turkey to try to end the flow of migrants to Europe,
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EU, Turkey, reach provisional migrant deal
The European Union and Turkey reached a provisional deal Friday to curb the unprecedented influx of migrants into Europe. EU
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