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EU, US ministers discuss visa waiver for citizens of five EU countries, including Bulgaria

November 10, 2018November 10, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

US and European Union justice and home affairs ministers have held talks in Washington DC on a number of issues,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria restricts access to area near Greek border because of increase in illegal migration

November 10, 2018November 13, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Refugees

Bulgarian Border Police have imposed a temporary restriction on people entering an area along the Maritsa River at the Bulgarian-Greek

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Bulgaria 

Foreign Minister: Bulgarian PM Borissov to visit US in early 2019

November 10, 2018November 12, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov will pay an official visit to the United States at the beginning of 2019, Foreign

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian police to hold exercise in Sofia on November 11

November 10, 2018November 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Interior Ministry structures are to hold an exercise in central Sofia from noon until 7.30pm on November 11 2018,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov’s GERB party hits back at President Radev over November 10 anniversary statement

November 10, 2018November 12, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Tsvetan Tsvetanov, parliamentary leader of Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party, has hit back at President Roumen Radev after the

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Bulgaria 

President Radev on November 10 anniversary: ‘Foundations of Bulgarian democracy critically endangered’

November 10, 2018November 12, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev

President Roumen Radev has used the 29th anniversary of the beginning of the country’s transition to democracy to launch a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria court holds Russian alleged online fraudster at US request

November 10, 2018November 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Varna

The District Court in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna has remanded in custody a 38-year-old Russian sought for

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian university rector faces dismissal over plagiarism

November 9, 2018November 11, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Education Minister will sack the rector of the Technical University of Varna, Rossen Vassilev, after an ethics commission found

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Bulgaria 

80th anniversary of Kristallnacht commemorated in Sofia with open lesson on tolerance

November 9, 2018November 9, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Sofia

The 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the pogrom unleashed on Jews by Nazi Germany ahead of the Holocaust, was commemorated in

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