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Bulgaria's center-right party wants vote canceled
Bulgaria's ex-prime minister says the results of last weekend's parliamentary election should be canceled due to "gross violations" of voting law.
European Tour in Bulgaria for World Match Play
In all his years on the European Tour, Ian Poulter has never seen surroundings like this — and not just because he's in a new country. With Bulgaria ...
Bulgarian president to start talks on new Cabinet
Bulgaria's president says he will start talks with the four parties represented in the new legislature following last weekend's election.
Bulgarian center-right wins most of the votes
The center-right party of former Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has fallen far short of winning a majority needed to form a government, according to ...
Exit polls: No clear winner in Bulgarian vote
Bulgaria's center-right party and its main challenger, the Socialists, finished first and second in Sunday's parliamentary election, with neither one ...
Bulgarians to elect new parliament amid scandals
Bulgarians voted Sunday in parliamentary elections with no party expected to win a majority to form a government, fueling fears of more political and ...
Illegal ballots seized ahead of Bulgarian election
Bulgarian prosecutors have stormed a printing house and seized 350,000 illegally printed ballots just hours before the start of parliamentary ...
Shattered EU dreams at heart of Bulgarian election
The big theme of Bulgaria's parliamentary elections this weekend: mounting frustration over the widening gap between the giddy hopes linked to EU ...
Kostadinova re-elected as Bulgarian Olympic chief
Former Olympic high jump champion Stefka Kostadinova has been re-elected as president of Bulgaria's national Olympic committee. Committee members ...
Bulgarian honor bid in Washington stirs debate
A request by the Bulgarian Embassy to name a Washington intersection after a favorite native son — a man credited with helping save the country's ...
Bulgaria re-enacts bus bombing
Bulgarian investigators on Friday staged a re-enactment of the bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists, the bus driver and the alleged ...
Levski Sofia fined for display of Nazi symbols
The Bulgarian Football Union has fined Levski Sofia for club fans displaying Nazi symbols during a domestic league match last weekend. The union said ...
Charges filed in Bulgarian wiretap scandal
Bulgarian prosecutors on Tuesday pressed charges against four former police officials accused of involvement in wiretapping political opponents of the ...
Bulgarian referee banned for poor performance
The Bulgarian football union has banned a referee for an unspecified period of time following his poor performance in a topflight match. The union ...
Kidnappers release Bulgarian mobster's daughter
Police say that the daughter of a Bulgarian mobster has been released after being abducted by unknown kidnappers for 47 days. Evelin Banev's daughter ...
Bulgarian top cop investigated for bribery
Bulgarian prosecutors have begun pretrial proceedings against a senior police official suspected of bribery. Sofia City Prosecutor Nikolai Kokinov ...
Emergency shutdown at Bulgarian nuclear plant
Officials say a turbo generator at Bulgaria's only nuclear power station has been shut down due to a hydrogen leak in its cooling system but insist ...
Coach Ilian Iliev quits 2nd-placed Levski Sofia
Ilian Iliev has quit as coach of second-placed Levski Sofia following an outburst of discontent among fans over the team's string of poor performances
NKorea warns embassies it can't guarantee safety
North Korea has warned diplomats in Pyongyang that it can't guarantee the safety of embassies in the event of a conflict and suggested they may want ...
Bulgaria will not push for Hezbollah blacklisting
Bulgaria says it won't initiate a push to declare Hezbollah a terror group after last summer's bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a ...
Platini cool on Russia-Ukraine league plan
UEFA President Michel Platini has declined to back a Russian plan for combining its national league with that of neighboring Ukraine. Platini says ...
UEFA urges players to speak out on racism
UEFA wants players to speak out against their own teammates and fans following a series of racist incidents at football matches. The executive ...