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Bulgarian archaeologists excavating the site of the Great Basilica in Plovdiv have found the remains of what is believed to have been a prominent Christian cleric. The Great Basilica is […]
Portugal’s former prime minister and former head of the UN Commission for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, topped the UN Security Council September 26 vote on a future Secretary-General for the fifth […]
The in-absentia trial in Bulgaria’s Special Criminal Court of two accused of involvement in the July 2012 terrorist bombing attack at Bourgas Airport on a group of Israeli tourists got […]
Cyprus could play an important role in two projects meant to offer new sources of gas supply for Bulgaria, Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova told reporters on September 26 after meeting […]
European leaders gathered in Vienna Saturday to discuss how to better fortify the European Union’s outer borders against illegal migration and trafficking. The migration summit will also focus on how […]
The Russian newspaper Kommersant, citing unnamed sources, reported this week that before the next presidential election, scheduled for March 2018, the Kremlin plans to create a gigantic new ministry that […]
After eight male Secretaries-General the time has come for a capable and respectable woman from Eastern Europe to lead the United Nations, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has told the UN […]
The first television debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is just days away, on September 26. Coincidentally, that same day, the UN Security Council will hold its next “straw […]
Directed by Stanley Kramer, Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the 1925 US Scopes Monkey Trial which resulted in John T Scopes’ conviction, for teaching Charles Darwin’s Theory […]
The number of first-time asylum-seekers registered in Bulgaria in the second quarter of 2016 was 3505, a decrease of 13 per cent compared with the first quarter of the year, […]
