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Bulgaria's new anti-corruption We Continue the Change party (PP) has reached a coalition deal with three smaller parties, giving the country a new government after eight months of political deadlock.
Bulgaria's largest political party expects to soon form a coalition government and put an end to the political deadlock that has resulted in three parliamentary elections this year.
Bulgarian lawmakers have convened for their first session of parliament since a newly formed anti-graft party emerged as the surprise winner of the country's third general elections this year.
Bulgarian officials say that "human error" on a "dangerous stretch" of highway is the most likely cause of the fiery bus crash this week in western Bulgaria that killed at least 44 people, all of them from North Macedonia and many of them children.
Bulgaria, Kosovo, and North Macedonia have begun holding official days of mourning for the victims of a fiery bus crash just outside Sofia, which killed 46 people, including a dozen children.
At least 45 people, most of them tourists from North Macedonia, have been killed in a fiery bus crash in western Bulgaria, officials said.
The United States has voiced serious "concern" regarding Bulgarian President Rumen Radev's recent statement that Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, a region forcibly annexed by Moscow in 2014, was "Russian."
Incumbent Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has won a second five-year term, defeating challenger Anastas Gerdzhikov in a runoff vote, according to preliminary results.
Early results from Bulgaria's parliamentary elections indicate a new anti-graft party is heading for a slim victory, potentially handing the party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov a shock defeat.
A newly formed anti-graft party appears to be winning Bulgaria's general elections with more than a quarter of the vote, according to partial official results, opening the door to difficult coalition talks in a deeply divided parliament.
Bulgarian officials say an overnight fire at a ward for COVID-19 patients has killed three patients.
No clear winner has emerged in Bulgaria's parliamentary election, the third held this year, exit polls showed on November 14, with the center-right GERB party of former premier Boyko Borisov in a neck-to-neck race with the anti-graft, We Continue the Change.
A right-wing nationalist candidate in this month's presidential election has been detained and indicted over a weekend attack on an LGBT community center in the capital.
Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev has demanded the immunity from prosecution of a right-wing nationalist candidate in this month's presidential election who is accused of leading a weekend attack on an LGBT community center in the capital be lifted.
Bulgarian health authorities have reported 4,979 new coronavirus cases over the previous day, the highest daily total since late March, as the poorest European Union member state battles the more contagious Delta variant of the virus.
Bulgaria's soccer union president, Borislav Mihaylov, has been reelected for a fifth four-year term in office despite a controversial record at the helm of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU).
Three foreign employees of Bulgaria's biggest weapons maker, Arsenal, have been detained on suspicion of exporting "sensitive information" about the company's manufacturing plant.
Leaders from North Macedonia and EU member Bulgaria appear to have mapped out a possible exit from a yearlong dispute over shared culture that has stalled Macedonian hopes for progress toward accession talks with the bloc.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has announced that he is scheduling the country's third parliamentary election of 2021 to coincide with the next presidential election on November 14.
A Bulgarian fugitive wanted in several European countries on money-laundering and drug-trafficking charges has been arrested in Kyiv after years on the run.
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