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Health ministries of Sofia, Skopje sign co-operation plan

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kiril Ananiev and his counterpart from Skopje, Venko Filipce, signed a co-operation plan on January 22, setting

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Bulgaria 

Sliven, Haskovo districts become latest in Bulgaria to declare flu epidemics

January 22, 2019January 23, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The districts of Sliven and Haskovo have become the latest in Bulgaria to declare an influenza epidemic since the beginning

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Only one in 10 people in Bulgaria sees antisemitism as a problem in the country – Eurobarometer poll

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Ten per cent of Bulgarians polled in a Eurobarometer survey said that antisemitism was a problem in the country, while

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Police hold man in connection with stone-throwing attack on Sofia Central Synagogue

January 22, 2019January 23, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

Police in Bulgarian capital city Sofia have taken into custody a 35-year-old man in connection with an incident in which

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Bulgarian Foreign Minister urges implementation of European Commission’s action plan against disinformation

January 21, 2019January 21, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva has welcomed the action plan against disinformation proposed by the European Commission in December, and

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Chief Mufti, leader of Bulgaria’s Muslims, joins condemnation of stone-throwing attack on Sofia Synagogue

January 21, 2019January 24, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

The office of the Chief Mufti, spiritual leader of Bulgaria’s Muslims, has expressed sincere hope that the perpetrator of a

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Schools in Bulgaria’s Sofia, Plovdiv, Dobrich, Varna districts closed from January 22 because of flu epidemic

January 21, 2019January 22, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv, Sofia, Varna

Schools in Bulgaria’s districts of Plovdiv, Sofia, Varna and Dobrich will be closed from January 22 because of an influenza

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch: ‘Macedonia’ church issue to await settlement on name

January 21, 2019January 23, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Macedonia, Ukraine

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church will address the question of the autocephaly of the “Macedonian Orthodox Church” after the process of

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World Jewish Congress condemns stone-throwing attack on Sofia Central Synagogue

January 21, 2019January 22, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

The World Jewish Congress says that it is deeply concerned and disgusted by the vandalism of the Great Prayer Hall of

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