Bulgaria News Archives

What began as a vacation flight to Varna, Bulgaria ended with beatings and arrests.

Huge crowds are expected for San Francisco's 38th annual gay pride parade as revelers celebrate their newfound freedom to marry.

Tens of thousands joined gay pride marches across Europe on Saturday but homophobics spoiled the party in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria where scores were arrested for disrupting events.

Bulgarian riot police detained about 60 far-right extremists on Saturday who threw a petrol bomb and tried to break up the country's first gay parade.

Bulgarian border police report catching five Iraqis and two Palestinians trying to sneak into the country.

Bulgaria and Hungary appear to be growing impatient with the slow progress of the European Union's flagship Nabucco gas pipeline, with two top officials pressing for action Friday.

Bulgaria's gay boys and girls hoped to have their inaugural pride this year. But, as happens, the religious right's raining on their parade : Bulgaria's influential Orthodox Church on Friday called on ...

The fight against corruption has weakened in most of the Southeast European countries, according to a new World Bank report on governance published on Tuesday.

SOFIA, Bulgaria : Bulgarian police say they have dismantled a large criminal ring that smuggled women to France and forced them to work there as prostitutes.

The cost of the trans-Balkan oil pipeline being built by Russia, Bulgaria, and Greece has increased to a 1.5 billion from a 1 billion , the project operator said on Wednesday.

RCMP misinformation is a key reason a Canadian businessman has been languishing in prison in Bulgaria for the past 12 years, says the outspoken former head of the RCMP complaints commission.

The Bulgarian government is going to make all fishermen exempt of fuel excise tax, according to Agriculture Minister Valeri Tzvetanov.

The Director of the Bulgarian National Bank Ivan Iskrov met Friday with Bulgarian Members of the European Parliament.

One theory says the KGB and Bulgarian secret service ordered the assassination of the playwright Georgi Markov in London enlarge Scotland Yard detectives have flown to Bulgaria in a fresh attempt to shed light ...

A preliminary agreement under the US Visa Waiver Programme was among the deals signed during Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev's three-day official visit to the United States, which ended on Wednesday.

French philologist, semiologist and historian Tzvetan Todorov Wednesday won the Spanish Prince of Asturias Prize for Social Sciences 2008.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Mr. Prime Minister, welcome to the Oval Office. It was about a year ago that I had the great pleasure of visiting your beautiful country, and I want to thank you for the warm hospitality you ...

Bulgaria's Transport Ministry says a jetliner belonging to the Russian company Transaero skidded off a runway while taking off from the Black Sea city of Burgas.

EARLY in Bram Stok er's 1897 novel "Dra cula," Jonathan Harker - a real es tate agent sent to Transylvania to meet a client who turns out to be the blood-sucking vampire - speaks of arriving in the city of ...

NATO has made significant progress in Afghanistan, and the alliance now needs to deliver on the goals the alliance's heads of state set when they met in April, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.

In this May 30, 2008 file photo, Bulgarian truck drivers are seen during a protest against high diesel prices, on the outskirts of Bulgaria's capital Sofia.

BRUSSELS : The U.S. defense secretary, Robert Gates, joined NATO defense ministers here Thursday in an effort to push forward a design for missile defenses that will protect all alliance nations from a ...

Aer Lingus has announced plans to begin a new route to the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, this autumn.

The man was found in a helpless condition Friday morning outside Building 16 of the Sunny Day 3 complex.

Nuclear power is on the advance worldwide, and a recent safety scare in Europe is highly unlikely to stop it.

The EU has urged Bulgaria to do more to tackle violent crime Just 18 months after Bulgaria became a member of the European Union, it risks losing millions worth of EU funds unless it can prove it is cracking ...

Croatia and Macedonia are the only Balkan countries whose governments fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, according to a new US State Department report.

Triweekly flights between Zagreb and Pristina will begin next week. Also in the news: Kosovo will request 1.4 billion euros at the Kosovo Donors' Conference in Brussels, and a Bulgarian tobacco producer will ...

Next Blackburn Boss - The managerial merry-go-round is in full swing and with Mark Hughes heading to Man City, who will then take his role at Blackburn ? Bulgarian champions CSKA Sofia have been excluded from ...

Bulgarian Economy and Energy Minister Petar Dimitrov will travel to Azerbaijan to participate in the 15th conference and exhibit "Caspian Petrol and Gas". The conference will take place in the capital Baku from ...

Members of a group of environmental NGOs have announced the formation of green party, Zelenite.

Bulgaria's football champion CSKA Sofia will not take part in the next European Champions League as its licence was revoked over unpaid debts, local media reported on Tuesday.

Testimonials Reuters SOFIA, Bulgaria - Bulgaria, an EU newcomer under pressure from the bloc to clean up its act, said Friday that it had broken up on a criminal network suspected of financing rebel groups in ...