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Sixteen Die in Bus Crash on Saturday, Prime Minster Calls Emergency Meeting
August 26 (BTA) - Sixteen people died in a bus crash 2 km west of Svoge (42 km away from Sofia), including a 13-year old boy, said the police late on Saturday. Fifteen sustained serious injuries. The 34 passengers, mainly of retirement age, were on a day trip to the Seven A...
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Two-seater Plane Crashes in Seaside Town of Balchik, Pilot Dies on Spot
August 25 (BTA) - A Cirrus SR22 plane crashed at the Balchik airstrip on Friday evening, the Transport, IT and Telecommunications Ministry said in a press release. The plane crashed while landing. It hit the runway, overturned and erupted in flames. The pilot, a 52-year-old m...
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President Radev Participates in Observances of 141st Anniversary of Shipka Epopee
August 25 (BTA) - President Rumen Radev participated Saturday in the observances of the 141st anniversary of the Battle of the Shipka Pass, also known as the Shipka Epopee, during the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War, Radev's press secretariat said. Thousands of people, among the...
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Four Factories for Illegal Production of Cigarettes Busted
August 25 (BTA) - The Plovdiv, Southern Bulgaria, police and prosecution office have busted four factories for illegal production of cigarettes, Plovdiv District Prosecutor Roumen Popov and Atanas Ilkov, head of the Regional Directorate of the Interior, told a news conference...
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Sofia University Extends Admission Campaign to Fill 850 Places
August 24 (BTA) - The Sofia University announced that it is extending its admission campaign to fill 850 subsidized places in full-time and extramural courses during the upcoming school year. A total of 4,486 students have enrolled during the three legs of the admission ...
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Central Election Commission Launches Public Procurement Procedure for Machine Voting
August 24 (BTA) - The Central Election Commission (CEC) has launched a public procurement procedure for market research, analysis and consultation for setting an estimated price for the manufacture, purchase and supply of not fewer than 12,500 voting machines, as well as for deli...
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Q2 Producer Price Index in Agriculture Down 5.8% Y/Y
August 24 (BTA) - The producer price index in agriculture in the second quarter of 2018 decreased by 5.8 per cent year-on-year, the National Statistical Institute reported Friday. Compared to the previous year, the prices of agricultural output went down by 2.9 per cent, which...
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Socialists Demand Resignations of Ministers of Agriculture, Interior after Negative Repeat Tests for Ovine Rinderpest, G...
August 23 (BTA) - The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) demands the resignations of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Minister Roumen Porozhanov and Interior Minister Valentin Radev, claiming that repeat tests for ovine rinderpest turned out to be negative. Thousands of ...
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Deputy Defence Minister Rejects Concerns over Undue Influence on Bulgaria's Selection of New Jet Fighters
August 23 (BTA) - Ahead of a visit to the US with a Defence Ministry delegation, Deputy Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov rejected concerns over undue influence on Bulgaria's selection of new jet fighters. "The invitation for the US visit is for military technical consultations. ...
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Natgas Prices to Rise as from October 1 - Regulator Chief
August 23 (BTA) - The price of natural gas will definitely increase, effective October 1, because the international market price of crude oil and the dollar exchange rate are rising, Bulgaria's Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC) Chairman Ivan Ivanov told journalists on...
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President Radev Comments Risk Factors Facing Bulgarian Air Force, Insurance Sector
Sofia, August 23 (BTA) - "The Bulgarian Air Force remains exposed to risk factors," Bulgarian President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Rumen Radev commented to journalists on Thursday. Among the risk factors, the head of State listed the insufficient number...
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Cabinet Approves Action Plan for Bulgaria's ERM II, EU Banking Union Entry
August 22 (BTA) - At its regular meeting on Wednesday the government approved an action plan for Bulgaria's joining the ERM II and the banking union by July 2019, the government's information service said. The plan includes measures which are to be implemented by the end of Ju...
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PM Borissov: Commercial Register Crisis Resolved
August 21 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov Tuesday said the Commercial Register crisis had been resolved. He was given a hearing at an extraordinary sitting of Parliament on the security of electronic databases stored by the Registry Agency and the Justice Ministry and ...
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Deputy Chairperson of Financial Supervision Commission Agayn Resigns over Insurance Problems Caused by Bankruptcy of Cyp...
August 21 (BTA) - Deputy Chairperson of Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) Ralitsa Agayn, who is in charge of insurance supervision, has resigned. Agayn announced her resignation to reporters on Tuesday, on her way to an extraordinary sitting of Parliament demanded by the...
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President Radev, PM Borissov, Parliament Greet Bulgarian Muslims on Occasion of Kurban Bayrami Religious Holiday
August 21 (BTA) - Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, and Parliament Tuesday greeted the Muslim community in Bulgaria on the occasion of the Kurban Bayrami ("the Holiday of Sacrifice") religious holiday. "During these sacred days for the Muslims,...
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Position on Migrants Shows Bulgaria is a Factor in EU - VMRO Party
August 20 (BTA) - Commenting on Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's rejection of a migrant return deal, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - Bulgarian National Movement (VMRO-BND) said Bulgaria's position on asylum seekers shows this country is a factor in the EU....
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Parliament to Hold Extraordinary Sitting on August 21
August 20 (BTA) - National Assembly Chair Tsveta Karayancheva has convened Bulgaria's Parliament to an extraordinary sitting at 1:00 p.m. on August 21, the Parliamentary Press Centre said on Monday. Earlier in the day, the BSP for Bulgaria Parliamentary Group entered a mot...
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National Security Agency, Prosecution Office Probe Financial Supervision Commission, Government Seeks Deputy Chair's Res...
August 20 (BTA) - The State Agency for National Security and the prosecuting magistracy are launching a check into the Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) at the Prosecutor General's instruction in relation to the bankruptcy of Olympic Insurance Company Ltd, the prosecution of...
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President Radev Raises to Turkish Counterpart Question of Compensation for Eastern Thrace Refugees' Properties
Petrova Niva, Southeastern Bulgaria, August 19 (BTA) - President Rumen Radev has directly raised the question of compensation for the land properties of Eastern Thrace refugees to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Radev said here on Saturday night. He was in the Petro...
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Olympic Insurance Policy Holders "Park" Cars in Front of Parliament in Protest
August 18 (BTA) - Holders of policies from the bankrupt Cyprus-registered Olympic Insurance Company Ltd. gathered in front of the Parliament building on Friday night. They threatened to leave their cars there after their motor third party liability insurance lapsed automatically ...
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