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Bulgarian prosecutors have arrested a State Agency for National Security (SANS) agent in connection with three crimes, including allegedly trying
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The District Prosecutor’s Office in Harmanli has laid criminal charges against three more people, two Afghan citizens and one Iraqi,
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By noon on December 16, a third gas tank had been removed from Bulgaria’s north-eastern village of Hitrino, site of
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The cracks in Bulgaria’s centre-right Reformist Bloc coalition over an attempt to form a government became even clearer on December
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The number of first-time asylum applicants in Bulgaria was 82 per cent higher in the third quarter of 2016 than
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Strict security measures continued to be in place in Bulgaria’s Hitrino village on December 15, site of a fatal gas
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Bulgaria’s National Assembly has approved the second and final reading of the Anti-Terrorism Bill, giving the military wide powers in
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Boiko Borissov’s GERB party will meet the Reformist Bloc for talks in coming days in connection with the exploratory mandate
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The people of Bulgaria’s north-eastern village of Hitrino, which was hit by a devastating gas tank transport train explosion on
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