Burgas, Bulgaria News

Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov has invited Interior Minister Tsvetelin Yovchev , Justice Minister Zinaida Zlatanova and Deputy Chair of the State Agency for National Security Vladimir Pisanchev to a meeting on counteracting crime.

Close to 20 000 attended Sunday the protest rally in Sofia against the policies of the Bulgarian government.

The election of murky businessman Delyan Peevski as the new head of Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security has stirred outrage in Bulgaria, with over 6000 joining a Facebook page calling for protests against the election in just over an hour.

Poland and the Czech Republic expressed "reservations" about blacklisting Hezbollah at a discussion in Brussels earlier this month, JTA has learned.

The construction of the Trakiya highway in southern Bulgaria started in 1974, but was stopped several times due to lack of money.

Ireland is reportedly blocking efforts inside the European Union to formally blacklist Hezbollah as a terror organization.

Bulgaria's position on the results of the investigation into the July 2012 terrorist bomb attack at Burgas Airport has not changed, Bulgarias foreign minister said on Monday, according to Bulgarian daily reported that Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin told the Israeli ambassador in Sofia, Shaul Kamisa-Raz, that Bulgaria is relying on its foreign ... (more)

Yisrael Beytenu leader demands EU declare Hezbollah a terrorist group in letter to Ashton, says failure to do so would make EU irrelevant; EU: No final decision made yet about Hezbollah.

The EU has never been good at making quick decisions and the latest effort on the part of some Europeans to block Britain's proposal to blacklist the armed wing of Hizbullah is the latest example of EU procrastination.

Last summer, Hezbollah terrorists escalated their war on Israel by staging a terror attack in Europe.

Government officials in Jerusalem accused Ireland on Wednesday of leading opposition inside the EU to placing Hezbollah, or at least its "military wing," on the European Union's terrorist black list.

Bulgaria's foreign minister said Wednesday that evidence that Hizbullah was behind a bomb attack last July on its soil that killed five Israelis was "circumstantial" and "not categorical" at this stage.

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Iran increased its support of international terrorist-related activities last year, as the capabilities of al-Qaeda's central leadership in Pakistan declined, the U.S. State Department said.

A memorial will be erected in the Bulgarian seaside town of Burgas, where a bus bombing at Sarafovo airport killed five Israeli tourists last year.

Bulgaria's new Foreign Minister , Kristian Vigenin , has said that one of the first issues on his agenda would be to study the evidence for the involvement of Hezbollah in the 2012 Burgas bus bombing .

Investigators staged a re-enactment of the July 2012 bus bombing at Bulgaria's Burgas airport in an effort to resolve unanswered questions about the incident.

The Burgas bus bombing killed a total of five Israeli tourists, the Bulgarian bus driver, and the alleged perpetrator of the attack.

Bulgaria's Trakiya Highway goes west-east, connecting capital Sofia with second-largest city of Plovdiv and fourth-largest city of Burgas, located on the Black Sea.

The airport in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna is open for business and has resumed its normal schedule, the management announced Saturday.