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Number of MPs Put into Quarantine after Being in Contact with COVID-positive MP Temenouzhka Petkova
January 15 (BTA) - The Sofia Regional Health Inspectorate (SRHI) said here in a press release on Saturday that a number of MPs have been put into quarantine after being in contact with GERB MP Temenouzhka Petkova, who is hospitalized with COVID-19. The quarantined MPs include two...
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Five Dazzling Girls Blaze Trail for Sofia-Skopje Thaw
While politicians in Sofia and Skopje seem stuck in a tangle of apparently intransigent bilateral disputes over history, language, hate speech and you name it, music - that universal medium that knows no boundaries, offers a ray of hope.
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Galina Zaharova Elected Unanimously as First Woman to Head Supreme Court of Cassation
All 20 members of Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) who attended Friday meeting of the Council voted in favour of Galina Zaharova's nomination for president of the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC). If the President of the Republic decrees her appointment without objection...
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Nationalist Party Blasts U.S. for "Pressuring" Bulgaria to Respect Rights of "Macedonian Minority," Embassy Denies Alleg...
January 14 (BTA) - The nationalist non-parliamentary party VMRO on Friday lashed out against a position allegedly expressed by a senior U.S. diplomat about "joint work with the Bulgarian Government for protection of a 'Macedonian minority' in Bulgaria". The U.S. Embassy in Sofia ...
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Roma Celebrate New Year
January 14 (BTA) - Roma people in Bulgaria celebrate one of their biggest holidays, the Roma New Year, on January 14. The day is locally known as Vassilitsa or Bango Vassilii (the Lame Vasil). Bango Vassilii is celebrated as the patron of Roma people. The celebration of Vas...
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Bulgargaz Offices Checked by Police, National Security Agency
January 14 (BTA) - The National Police and the State Agency for National Security are conducting an operation in offices of public supplier Bulgargaz on Friday. The Interior Ministry said the operation was about the price of natural gas. The operation is taking place at six of...
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Classified Information Clearance of Counter-corruption Commission Chair Tsatsarov Has Been Revoked - PM
January 14 (BTA) - The classified information clearance of the Couner-Corruption and Unlawfully Acquired Assets Forfeiture Commission Chair, Sotir Tsatsarov, has been revoked, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov told bTV on Friday a day after Tsatsarov announced his plans to resign. T...
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Ruling Majority Demands Prosecutor General Geshev's Resignation
January 14 (BTA) - In a joint declaration read out in Parliament Friday, the ruling majority of Continue the Change, the Bulgarian Socialist Party, There Is Such a People and Democratic Bulgaria urged Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev to come down. They catalogued the reasons for th...
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COVID-19 Update: 7,034 New Cases, Test Positivity Rate at 17.76%
January 14 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 806,977, after 39,590 tests identified 7,034 new infections on Thursday, 74.61 per cent of which were of unvaccinated persons, according to data posted on https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity ra...
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PM Unveils New COVID Response Plan, Measures Depend on Availability of ICU Beds
January 13 (BTA) - Prime Minister Kiril Petkov presented a new national COVID-19 response plan by video conference on Thursday. He said that in the new plan, all anti-epidemic measures will be determined by the occupancy rate of intensive care unit (ICU) beds in hospitals. Nothin...
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Sotir Tsatsarov Resigns as Head of Counter-Corruption Commission
January 13 (BTA) - The Couner-Corruption and Unlawfully Acquired Assets Forfeiture Commission (CCUAA) announced Thursday that its chairman, Sotir Tsatsarov, indents to tender his resignation next week before the competent Parliamentary Committee. Tsatsarov, who served as the p...
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Council for Electronic Media Outraged by another Attempt to Encroach on Media Freedom
January 13 (BTA) - The Council for Electronic Media (CEM) expresses its outrage at yet another attempt to encroach on media freedom in carrying out their public mission, the media regulator said in a statement regarding an interview on Nova TV. After yesterday's unacceptable v...
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Majority of Bulgarians Believe Tighter Restrictions Needed to Curb Spread of COVID-19 - Survey
January 13 (BTA) - Most respondents in a nationally representative survey believe that controlling the situation with COVID-19 requires serious restrictive measures, including banning public gatherings (according to a total of 74 per cent), requiring wearing masks (75 per cent), ...
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Counter-Corruption Commission Launches Investigation Against Municipality of Lukovit
January 13 (BTA) - The Counter-Corruption and Unlawfully Acquired Assets Forfeiture Commission (CCUAA) launched an investigation in the northern municipality of Lukovit following alerts about senior public officials, who were allegedly involved in illegal activities, CCUAA said h...
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Parliament Rejects GERB-UDF's Proposal for Compensation for Non-Household Electricity Consumers
January 13 (BTA) - Parliament rejected on Thursday a draft decision to introduce a compensation mechanism for non-residential end consumers in the electricity market with 83 votes in favour, 83 against, and 31 abstentions. The request for compensation was submitted by GERB-UD...
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Medical Institutions Face Financial Difficulties Due to Reduced Budgets, Hospital Associations Warn
January 13 (BTA) - Hospitals are facing serious financial difficulties due to reduced budgets, warned the National Association of Private Hospitals, the Bulgarian Hospital Association, the Association of University Hospitals and the National Association of Regional Multidisciplin...
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COVID-19 Update: 5,703 New Cases, Test Positivity Rate at 19%
January 13 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 799,943, after 29,813 tests identified 5,703 new infections on Wednesday, 72.66 per cent of which were of unvaccinated persons, according to data posted on https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity r...
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European Public Prosecutor's Office Appoints One, Rejects One Bulgarian Nominee for European Delegated Prosecutor
January 12 (BTA correspondent Nikolay Jelizakov) - The College of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) announced on Wednesday that it had adopted two decisions, approving one and rejecting one nominee for European Delegated Prosecutor (EDP) of the EPPO in Bulgar...
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New Bird Flu Hotspot Confirmed in Haskovo Region
January 12 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) has confirmed a new hotspot of avian influenza type A in birds in the Haskovo Region. The virus was found in a breeding facility for Pekin ducks in the village of Zhalti Bryag, Stambolovo Municipality. The site is within ...
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Twelve Illegal Migrants and Two Traffickers Detained near Bulgarian-Turkish Border
January 12 (BTA) - Twelve illegal migrants and two human traffickers were detained near the Bulgarian-Turkish border, the Interior Ministry reported here on Wednesday. On January 11, the border police and gendarmerie pulled over for inspection a car in the village of Malomirov...
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