Police in Bulgaria to sound sirens in honour of slain border policeman
Interior Ministry employees are to sound sirens across Bulgaria at noon on November 9 in honour of Junior Inspector Petar
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Bulgaria Foreign Ministry in talks with Turkish ambassador after border policeman shot dead
Bulgaria’s deputy foreign minister Kostadin Kodzhabashev held talks on November 8 with Turkish ambassador Aylin Sekizkök at the Foreign Ministry
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Russia says it is sanctioning Bulgarian arms firms
The Russian government said on November 8 it was sanctioning legal entities from several countries, including a number of arms
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GERB, WCC agree on ‘expert’ groups to seek consensus on policies
While each has pledged not to support the other’s mandate to seek to form a government, the GERB-UDF coalition and
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BRC, UNHCR in ‘Winter Support’ campaign for Ukrainian refugees in Bulgaria
The Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC) and the UN High Commission for Refugees will provide by the end of the year
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Bulgarian military prosecutors charge colonel over death of MiG-29 pilot
The Military District Prosecutor’s Office in Sofia has laid criminal charges against a senior military officer in connection with the
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Bulgaria a step closer to first payment of 1.37B euro in EU recovery funds
European Commission (EC) experts have assessed Bulgaria as ready to receive a first payment, amounting to 1.37 billion euro, under
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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: In past week, 60 deaths, 3016 new cases
The deaths of 60 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered in the past week, bringing
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Bulgarian caretaker Tourism Minister seeks to defend Ukrainian refugee move
In interviews at the weekend, Bulgaria’s caretaker Tourism Minister Ilyin Dimitrov sought to deflect criticism of the interim government’s controversial
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