Bulgaria News

The life of the young mechanic from the small town of Chirpan changed forever after he saved the lives of eight victims of a hellish bus crash in Bulgaria in June.

Italy and Poland were the first two European Union member states to offer assistance to Bulgaria after authorities in Sofia triggered the European Civil Protection Mechanism on February 7 because of the flood disaster in parts of Bulgaria.

Blizzard conditions, record-low temperatures and high winds persisted Tuesday from Bulgaria to Baku, disrupting transportation and complicating efforts to respond to a calamity that has claimed hundreds of lives in central and eastern Europe in the last week.

The San Giuliano channel linking Venice to Mestre is partially iced because of unusually low temperatures, in Venice, Italy, Monday, Feb.

Ice-breakers have battled Europe's big chill as the Danube river froze over more than 170 kilometres, and dozens died of cold on a continent gripped by some of the lowest temperatures in decades.

A painting covered by mud is seen as Svetla Kafedhieva clears the mud in her flooded house in the village of Bisser, 288km east of the capital Sofia, on Tuesday, Feb.

All schools in Bulgaria will be closed for the remainder of the week due to extreme winter conditions that caused road blocks and floods in different parts of the country.

Greece has declared an emergency situation in the northern Evros province after heavy rains and melting snow caused the great Evros river to come out of its banks.

Campaigns to raise funds for people hard-hit by the floods in Bulgaria have been started by the Bulgarian Red Cross, in partnership with the country's three mobile operators, as well as by public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television.

Eight deaths were reported 6 February in southern Bulgaria after a dam burst, sending floodwaters surging through the village of Bisser in Haskovo province, Novinite reports .

Bulgaria's EU Commissioner on International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Kristalina Georgieva, traveled to Bulgaria to visit the flooded areas.

The winter weather crisis in Bulgaria deepened on February 7 2012 as another dike was breached, sending a huge wave of water from the Maritsa River towards the southern village of Generalovo and the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint with Turkey.

Bulgaria has declared its highest " Code Red " weather warning for the southern districts of Haskovo and Smolyan after Monday's massive flooding in the area.

This is the Roman amphitheatre in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. When built in the 2nd century AD it could take up to 7 000 spectators.

U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton called for an international coalition of countries that ""support the Syrian people's right to have a better future" and said the U.S. would tighten sanctions intended to block the flow of weapons to the Syrian regime.

People were evacuated from the residential district of Gebran in Svilengrad amid the flood crisis in southern Bulgaria on February 6 2012.

A total of eight persons have drowned in Southeastern Bulgaria as a result of flooding caused by the breaking of local water reservoir dams, the Interior Ministry has confirmed.

Map of the flooded area in Southeastern Bulgaria from the bTV channel. The blue line shows the route of the tidal wave from the Ivanovo water reservoir that hit the village of Biser.

Briquette production at the Brikel plant in the southern Bulgarian town of Galabovo has stopped due to halted coal supplies from the state-owned Maritsa Iztok Mines.

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