Struggling with a surge in coronavirus infections, Bulgarian health officials announced a 10-day nationwide lockdown for schools, restaurants, theatres and shopping malls. The new restrictions will be the last test for the centre-right government of Boyko Borissov, who hopes to win a fourth term in the parliamentary elections on April 4. The Balkan nation of […]
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Macedonian Jews Urge Bulgaria to Acknowledge Responsibility for Holocaust Mass Deportations
Jews from Macedonia who were rounded up and assembled in the Tobacco Monopoly transit camp, before deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp, in Skopje, Macedonia, March 1943. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Jewish community in the Balkan state of North Macedonia has published an open letter to the Bulgarian government urging the recognition […]
North Macedonia accession talks face new hurdles from Bulgaria
A row over Goce Delchev, a national hero in both Bulgaria and North Macedonia, typifies a range of disputes threatening to stall Skopje’s accession talks with the EU, due to begin on Tuesday. Sofia is demanding that the revolutionary leader be recognised solely as a Bulgarian historical figure. Unless North Macedonia’s agrees, Bulgaria says membership […]
Bulgaria quarrel threatens to put brakes on North Macedonia EU membership talks
Finally, more than a decade-and-a-half after it first applied, what is now North Macedonia appeared to be sprinting down the home straight to EU membership. A long-running name dispute with its southern neighbours Greece had seen Athens put up obstacle after obstacle to Skopje joining the bloc. But, last year, both countries came to a […]
Bulgaria protests enter 100th consecutive day as demonstrators denounce widespread corruption
Hundreds took to the streets in cities across Bulgaria on Friday, marking the 100th consecutive day of anti-government protests in the country. Demonstrators are decrying widespread, deep-rooted corruption and degradation of the rule of law. They are calling for Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s centre-right government and Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev to resign over allegations they […]
Earring Unearthed In Bulgaria Matches Those In Multiple Mummy Portraits
Fashion in the period of classical antiquity seems to have followed trends that extended much further than we ever imagined. In this case, extending from the ladies of Roman Egypt all the way to the women of ancient Bulgaria. An ancient earring discovered by archaeologists in Bulgaria matches the jewelry painted on more than one […]
Bulgaria sentences two men to life in prison for 2012 Hezbollah bombing that killed five Israelis
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Fortified Hellenistic Center And Underwater Site Found In Bulgaria
In Bulgaria, a fortified Hellenistic center has been found on the country’s Black Sea coast . A fortress has been discovered on the shore and, what’s more, a large underwater site has been located in the waters nearby the coastal fortress site. The experts believe they may have located an important fortified Hellenistic center that […]
Bulgaria: Justice minister resigns as anti-corruption protest passes 50 consecutive days
Protesters have been out on the streets of Bulgarian capital Sofia for more than 50 consecutive days, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and his government. Bulgaria’s justice minister Danail Kirilov resigned on Wednesday amid criticism of his failure to address corruption as the country faced a fiftieth consecutive day of anti-government protests. […]
Full stream ahead: Bulgaria wants natural gas pipeline directly from Russia
Amid talk of European energy security and diversification of gas supplies, Bulgaria has proposed building another pipeline to get gas directly from Russia, according to President Rumen Radev. The Balkan nation currently gets Russian natural gas by transit through Ukraine and other Gazprom customers in Europe. Last year, sales of the blue fuel to […]
Hear that Nikki? ISIS got a powerful missile the CIA secretly bought in Bulgaria
A new report on how ISIS built its arsenal highlights how the US purchased munitions, intended for Syrian rebels, that ended up in the hands of the terrorist group. A guided anti-tank missile ended up in the hands of ISIS terrorists less than two months after the US government purchased it in late 2015 […]
Anonymous Bulgaria Leaks Massive 10GB Of Data: “Silk Way Airlines Helps Terrorists”
July 24, 2017 By Aaron Kesel Anonymous Bulgaria has leaked 10 GBs of data that suggests Azerbaijani Silk Way Airlines is involved in a billion dollar illegal weapons smuggling operation throughout the Middle East for at least the past three years according to the leaked documents reported by Truthleaks.org. Middle Eastern reporter Dilyana […]
Ireland Follows Germany, France and Bulgaria with Ban on Fracking – “We’ve Made History”
Vic Bishop, Staff WriterWaking Times The global movement to ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking), a method of extracting petrochemicals from shale rock deposits underneath the ground, is gaining steam as Ireland has just announced a ban on onshore fracking. After passing the ban within the Irish parliament, The Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016 is […]
Caccia Usa F-35 in Estonia e Bulgaria. Schierati nelle basi a pochi minuti di volo dalla Russia
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New Black Panther Leader: Blacks Need to Migrate to Five Southern States, Form ‘Country Within a Country’
[Editor’s Note: Every people wants a homeland in which it can practice self-determination and enjoy autonomy. Nevertheless, internationalism, globalism, the “New World Order” – call it what you will – forces drastically different and ofentimes incompaitable cultures to coexist alongside one another. This leads to massive conflict (see: the former Yugoslavia) and is entirely unecessary. […]
Clinton Foundation Snafu: Video Footage Catches FBI Probe Suspects Arriving At Hillary’s House
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe invited the Chinese businessman whose donations to him have been named as a focus of Justice Department investigators to a 2013 fundraiser at Hillary Clinton’s personal Washington, D.C., residence. Wang Wenliang, a Chinese national with U.S. permanent residency, briefly shook Clinton’s hand at the Sept. […]
Ex-State Department ‘sextortion’ culprit sentenced to less than 5 years in prison
A onetime State Department employee who used embassy computers to extract sexually explicit photos from women was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison on Monday, according to news reports. Michael Ford, who was stationed in London from 2013-15, in December had pleaded guilty to nine counts of cyberstalking, seven counts of computer hacking […]
Trump shakes world order
From: reuters.com Foreign diplomats are expressing alarm to U.S. government officials about what they say are inflammatory and insulting public statements by Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, according to senior U.S. officials. Officials from Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia have complained in recent private conversations, mostly about the […]
Vacants To Vegetables: Community Farms Spring Up In Baltimore
Leaning against his rusty red pickup truck, and clad head-to-toe in Real Tree and camouflage, Eric Kelly of Charm City Farms gets philosophical about the connection between humans and nature. “When we’re on our deathbed, we’re not gonna remember American Idol TV shows, our best video game score. But we’ll remember things like fishing with our […]
Milbank sponsored pro-Israel events and ‘CIA torture’ event– but only raised objection to ‘Palestine’ event
Katherine M. Franke Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law February 26, 2016 Dear Mr. Arena: Thank you very much for contacting us about our February 22, 2016 Open Letter, signed by law faculty, students, administrators and staff raising concerns about actions taken by Milbank at Harvard Law […]