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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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Bulgaria 

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 

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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Bulgaria 

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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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s WCC embarks on ‘exceedingly difficult’ bid to get government elected

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

Accepting a mandate from President Roumen Radev on January 3 to seek to form a government, the We Continue the

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: In past week, 17 deaths, 862 new cases

January 2, 2023January 2, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The deaths of 17 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered in the past week, bringing

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