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Politicians Call for Accountability for Police Brutality against Last Year's Anti-establishment Protestors
August 14 (BTA) - The video of police brutality during last year's anti-establishment protests shown in Parliament on Friday, caused shock and a wave of comments both on social networks and among politicians, who on Saturday described the footage as "harrowing" and called for...
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TISP Leader Trifonov: TISP Will Not Support Government on Third Cabinet-Forming Mandate
August 14 (BTA) - The leader of There is Such a People (TISP), Slavi Trifonov, Saturday reiterated on Bulgarian National Radio that his party will not support a government on the third cabinet-forming mandate, which under the Constitution President Rumen Radev has to hand eit...
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COVID-19 Update: 1047 New Cases, Test Positivity Rate at 4.6%
August 14 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 432,339, after 22,979 tests identified 1,047 new infections on Friday, according to data posted on https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity rate now stands at 4.56 per cent. Sofia City Region...
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BTA Signs Partnership Agreement with Team of Opera Diva Sonya Yoncheva
August 13 (BTA) - BTA's National Press Club Friday hosted the signing of a partnership agreement between BTA and the management team of opera singer Sonya Yoncheva. BTA becomes a media partner for the promotion of her gala concert with Placido Domingo in Sofia on August 31, as we...
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Bulgarian Writer Georgi Gospodinov Wins Danish Literary Award
13 August (BTA) - Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov is this year's winner of the Danish literature award Zinklar for his "Blind Vaysha and other stories". A jury of writers and critics said that reading Gospodinov "is like traveling in a time machine offering a mind-expanding jo...
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President Visits Border with Turkey as Migration Pressure Increases
August 13 (BTA) - President Rumen Radev visits a Border Police unit near the Lesovo-Hamzabeyli checkpoint on the border with Turkey to check their readiness to handle increased migration pressure. He joins a helicopter patrol round along the border. He points out that sections of...
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Road Construction Workers Protest over Unpaid Wages
August 13 (BTA) - Legal ways are sought to pay subcontractors for motorway repair work which is suspected to have violated the contracting rules, said the acting President of the Managing Board of the Road Infrastructure Agency, Ivaylo Denchev. He was speaking to reporters as roa...
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COVID-19 Update: 882 New Cases, Test Positivity Rate at 4.7%
August 13 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 431,292, after 18,733 tests identified 882 new infections on Thursday, according to data posted on https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity rate now stands at 4.71 per cent. Sofia City Reg...
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Over 700 Foreigners of Bulgarian Origin, North Macedonia to Study in Bulgarian Universities
August 12 (BTA) - A total of 627 foreign nationals of Bulgarian origin and 78 nationals of the Republic of North Macedonia have been admitted to Bulgarian higher education establishments, the Ministry of Science and Education said on Thursday. The data, posted on the Mini...
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Bulgarian Export to EU Increased by 23% in January-May
August 12 (BTA) - In January-May 2021, Bulgarian export to the EU increased by 23/4 per cent from this time last year, reaching a total of 17,616.9 million leva, according to snap statistics by the National Statistical Institute released Thursday. In May alone, the export to the ...
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Parliament Rubberstamps Unsuccessful Completion of TISP's Cabinet-Forming Mandate
August 12 (BTA) - Bulgaria's National Assembly on Thursday voted, 106-60 with one abstention, to pass a resolution accepting the withdrawal for personal reasons of Plamen Nikolov's candidacy for prime minister and declaring the unsuccessful completion of the cabinet-forming ...
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COVID-19 Update: 782 New Cases, Test Positivity Rate at 4.3%
August 12 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 430,410, after 18,166 tests identified 782 new infections on Wednesday, according to data posted on https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity rate now stands at 4.3 per cent. Sofia Region tops ...
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Parliament to Vote Thursday on Plamen Nikolov's Decision to Withdraw His Prime Minister Candidacy
August 11 (BTA) - The National Assembly will take a vote on Thursday morning on Prime Minister designate Plamen Nikolov's decision to withdraw from the process of becoming government leader, GERB-UDF Floor Leader Dessislava Atanassova said on Wednesday, emerging from a meeti...
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COVID-19 Update: 805 New Cases, Test Positivity Rate at 4.34%
August 11 (BTA) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria reached 429,628, after 18,556 tests identified 805 new infections on Tuesday, according to data posted on https://coronavirus.bg/. The test positivity rate now stands at 4.34 per cent. Sofia City Region t...
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Deputy PM Pekanov for BTA: Bulgaria Not Required to Introduce Euro Once Bulgarians' Incomes Reach EU-Average
August 10 (BTA) - In an interview for BTA on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister for EU Funds Management Atanas Pekanov says that there is no formal requirement that Bulgaria introduce the euro once Bulgarians revenues come close to the average in the EU. "I see no reason for such a c...
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TISP Leader Trifonov Says Party Will Not Put Draft Cabinet to Vote in Parliament on Wednesday
August 10 (BTA) - There Is Such a People (TISP) party leader Slavi Trifonov said here on Tuesday that his party will not submit for Parliament to vote on its draft cabinet on Wednesday. Trifonov's remarks come shortly after Democratic Bulgaria decided not to support TISP's pro...
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Democratic Bulgaria Will Not Support TISP's Proposed Cabinet
August 10 (BTA) - Democratic Bulgaria (DB) cannot support the proposed cabinet lineup by the There Is Such a People (TISP) party, said DB co-leader Hristo Ivanov here in Parliament after a meeting of DB's Parliamentary Group on Tuesday morning.
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774 New COVID-19 Cases, 23 Deaths in Bulgaria on Monday
August 10 (BTA) - Bulgaria registered 774 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, August 9 after 23,283 tests. The number of patients who died from the disease in a day was 23. Another 223 recovered. The data has been provided at https://coronavirus.bg.
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PM Designate's Study at Austrian University Called into Question
August 9 (BTA) - On August 5, Klagenfurt's "Kleine Zeitung" ran an article by Austrian journalist Uwe Sommersguter about the ambiguities in the biography of TISP's prime minister designate Plamen Nikolov and whether he really did his doctorate in the East Austrian city. Sommer...
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President Rumen Radev: The Partnership with Azerbaijan is Strengthening Energy Diversification Not Only for Bulgaria but...
August 9 (BTA) - In a telephone conversation with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Monday, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said that the development of the energy partnership with Azerbaijan strengthens the real diversification in natural gas supplies not only for Bulgaria b...
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