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Bulgaria issues weather warnings over heavy rain, as snow forecast for ski resorts

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian authorities have issued for the Code Orange warning of dangerous weather for two districts for January 10 because of

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Bulgaria 

Eurostat: Unemployment in Bulgaria in November 2022 was 4%

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in Bulgaria in November 2022 was four per cent, unchanged from October 2022 and down from 4.7 per cent

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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: In past week, 14 deaths, 111 new cases

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The deaths of 14 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered in the past week, bringing

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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Omicron strain found in all 74 samples – NCIPD

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) said on January 6 that it has found the Omicron coronavirus

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Bulgaria probes reports of properties bought by sanctioned Russians

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Russia

The Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office has assigned the State Agency for National Security to investigate allegations that Russian citizens and

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Bulgaria 

Two-thirds of Ukrainians who sought shelter in Bulgaria have quit the country

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Refugees, Russia, Ukraine

About two-thirds of Ukrainians who sought shelter in Bulgaria after fleeing Russia’s war on their country have moved on elsewhere,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria heads to third and final bid to form government

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s We Continue the Change (WCC) party is to give up its mandate to seek to get a government elected.

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Cannon estimated to be 200 years old retrieved from Bulgaria’s Black Sea

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Two iron naval cannon as well as a number of cannonballs estimated to date from around the end of the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Navy destroys landmine found on Obzor beach

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Navy specialists destroyed on January 3 a landmine found on a beach in Obzor in the Bourgas district on

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