Bulgaria News

Customs officers in Bulgaria say they have seized a shipment of liquid cocaine disguised as wine.

A Bulgarian bus of the "Union Ivkoni" carrier caught fire in Italy late Thursday.

EXASPERATED voters boot out a bad government and install an unknown one. That is the Bulgarian election in a nutshell, after the defeat of the Socialists by a centre-right populist party led by Boyko Borisov, a cigar-chomping ex-bodyguard. Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, known by its Bulgarian acronym of GERB, took 39.7% of the vote ...

Friends and relatives of the murdered Bulgarian student Stoyan Baltov have asked the Sofia City Court to give a life sentence to those found guilty of his murder.

A file photo of an earlier protest against 'election tourism'. The slogan translates as 'The Bulgarian Parliament is not elected in Turkey'. Photo: Assen Tonev Supporters of Bulgaria's ultra-nationalist party Ataka and Yane Yanev's rightist Order Law and Justice party staged separate protests at the country's borders with Turkey on July 4 2009 in ...

A number of people have been arrested for vote-buying across Bulgaria after a special operation by the Bulgarian police, prosecutors and the national security agency .

Police in Bulgaria say they have seized 111 kilograms of heroin at the country's border with Macedonia and arrested six men.

All the political parties in Bulgaria have gone into this weekend's parliamentary election with the same promise: corruption in the country has to end.

SOFIA: The centre-right GERB party, which won Bulgarian elections, announced administrative reforms and cutbacks yesterday to stabilise the budget as the country's economic crisis threatened to worsen.

At 6 am Sunday polling stations across Bulgaria were opened by the regional electoral commissions as Bulgaria's 41st National Assembly elections began.

SOFIA: International observers refused to give a 'clean bill of health' to the general election in Bulgaria at the weekend, which saw the centre-right opposition roundly defeat the ruling Socialists.

A young man has died after falling off a cliff at the Kamen Bryag region on the Bulgarian seaside while participating in the unofficial July Morning festival, Kross agency reports Wednesday.

Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations Alexander Filipov was arrested Monday on charges of corruption and rigging elections, a prosecutor said.

Boyko Borissov, the populist mayor of Sofia, claimed victory last night in Bulgaria's general election.

Bulgarian police arrested at least five people yesterday on suspicion of vote buying and Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev urged Bulgarians not to jeopardise their future in today's parliamentary election.

A sand sculpture is displayed during the international sand sculptures festival in the Bulgarian town of Burgas east of the capital Sofia, Thursday, July, 2, 2009.

The leader of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms , Ahmed Dogan, has warned against "the playing of the ethnic card" in the Parliamentary Elections.

The impoverished population of this sleepy Bulgarian town faced a bizarre choice of candidates in Sunday's general election - suspected local crime bosses who are also town benefactors.

Simeon Saxe-Coburg, leader of the National Movement for Stability and Progress, , said Bulgaria must continue to integrate into the European Union.

Since communism collapsed 20 years ago, Bulgarians have been waiting for a saviour to rid the land of its plagues: corruption, nepotism and impunity for the powerful of the day.