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When today’s Wizz Air flight from the German city of Dortmund landed at Sofia Airport today, the staff at Sofia Airport had already purchased seven inflated balloons shaped like numbers. […]
Europol has arrested four Bulgarian nationals suspected of running an organised crime group specialised in compromising credit card data and illegal t ...
Bulgarian authorities declared a “Code Orange” dangerous weather warning over forecast rain and snow in eight districts, including Sofia, ...
The first ever EU-wide rules for the civil use of drones were agreed by European Parliament and European Council negotiators on November 30 2017. Curr ...
Between January 1 and October 31, a total of 2678 third-country nationals – meaning, non-EU citizens – had been detained in Bulgaria for illegal migration, Interior Minister Valentin Radev said […]
Topics ranging from the fight against terrorism to statements of Saudi Arabian interest in investing in five-star hotels in Bulgaria were on the agenda in various talks on November 30 […]
Unemployment in Bulgaria in October 2017 was 6.1 per cent, again below the European Union average, which that month was 7.4 per cent, EU statistics agency Eurostat said on November […]
Slobodan Praljak, a Bosnian Croat war leader, died after allegedly drinking poison at a Hague Tribunal sitting at which his 20-year jail sentence for war crimes was confirmed, a report on […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov was officially welcomed to Riyadh on November 29 by Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia and his country’s prime minister, the Bulgarian […]
For the fifth consecutive year, the office of the Chief Mufti – spiritual leader of Bulgaria’s Muslim minority – is holding a fundraising campaign, to assist 266 orphans. Funds are […]
