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Greece, Bulgaria battle flooding; 8 dead [Feb 07, 2012] A swollen river in Greece bursts its banks, flooding homes and forcing authorities to declare a state of emergency Tuesday, officials said, as rescuers scrambled to a Bulgarian village nearly washed away when a dam collapsed, killing eight people. [via YahooNews] More >>

Dam bursts in Bulgaria, floods village and kills 3 [Feb 06, 2012] A dam in southern Bulgaria collapsed after heavy rain on Monday, flooding a village and killing at least three elderly men, authorities said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Dam bursts in Bulgaria; Floods kill 8, 10 missing [Feb 06, 2012] Authorities say a dam in southern Bulgaria has collapsed after heavy rain, killing at least four people as floodwaters slammed into a village. [via YahooNews] More >>

Ivanovo Reservoir Dam Collapse Floods Bisser, Bulgaria [Feb 06, 2012] SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) ? A dam in southern Bulgaria collapsed after heavy rain on Monday, flooding a village and killing at least three elderly men, authorities said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Dam bursts in Bulgaria, floods village and kills at least 3 elderly men [Feb 06, 2012] SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) ? Authorities say a dam has collapsed following heavy rain in southern Bulgaria, flooding a nearby village. A radio report says at least 3 people have died. [via YahooNews] More >>

Dam bursts in Bulgaria, floods village and kills 3 [Feb 06, 2012] Authorities say a dam has collapsed following heavy rain in southern Bulgaria, flooding a nearby village. A radio report says at least 3 people have died. [via YahooNews] More >>

4 dead in freezing weather in Serbia, Bulgaria [Jan 30, 2012] Heavy snow and freezing weather led to four deaths and left two people missing Monday in Serbia and Bulgaria, prompting authorities to close down schools and introduce emergency measures. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Greece Turn WD Teen Patient Nightmare into Happy Ending [Jan 26, 2012] A thirteen-year-old Bulgarian comatose patient, who was saved after authorities and doctors in Bulgaria and Greece pooled their efforts for a liver transplant, took the first step toward his new life on Thursday. "The operation is unique in that it brings together the efforts of two countries ? Bulgaria and Greece. Fortunately our attempt to save the child's life proved successful," Dr.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Power out as heavy snow hits Bulgaria [Jan 10, 2012] SOFIA, Bulgaria, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Authorities in Bulgaria Tuesday declared emergencies in 190 villages and towns without electrical power for a fifth day as heavy snow blanketed the country. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Sofia to Microchip Its Stray Dogs [Jan 05, 2012] The municipality Bulgaria's capital Sofia will implant microchips to all the stray dogs in the city in order to track them more efficiently, it was made clear on Thursday. The microchip will enable the authorities to track whether the dogs have been neutered and where the neutering has taken place. "If a neutered dog turns out pregnant, we will find those who are responsible and they will be ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Most Mysterious Lawyer Murder Enters Court Again [Nov 17, 2011] The court saga over one of the most mysterious lawyer murders in Bulgaria, which has stretched over more than a decade already, resumes on Thursday. Lawyer Nadezhda Georgieva was killed in her home in Sofia, suffering nine blows from a kitchen cleaver on February 28, 2000. The lack of progress in the legal proceedings so far has been attributed to the authorities' failure to bring back to ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Allows Mobsters to Vote, Bans Decent Citizens [Oct 27, 2011] Top mobsters, who have been in hiding and wanted for years, have the right to vote in Bulgaria's presidential and local elections, unlike hundreds of decent citizens, who were banned "by mistake". Nikolay Marinov, aka the Little Marguin, and Plamen Dishkov aka Kela, are just two of a few underworld lords, whom authorities surprisingly skipped to include in the restrictive list with Bulgarians ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Tops OLAF Fraud Investigations List in 2011 Report [Oct 19, 2011] Bulgaria has the highest number of new cases of abuse reports from among all EU 27 member states, shows the Annual Operational Report 2011 of EU Anti-Fraud Office OLAF. A total of 93 new reports of cases were received by the authorities in Bulgaria in 2010, more than in any other EU member state or candidate country, out of a total of 705 such information reports for the EU 27, and 737 for the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria arrests Roma clan leader [Sep 28, 2011] The authorities in Bulgaria arrest a local Roma leader as anti-Roma demonstrations spread and more than 160 people are arrested [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Condemns Yemen President's 'Irresponsible' Conduct [Sep 26, 2011] Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry is gravely concerned by the escalating violence in Yemen, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Vesela Cherneva said in a statement. "Bulgaria is following with concern the escalation of violence in Yemen. Security in the country has come under threat after authorities last week embarked on the indiscriminate use of weapons," the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry declared Monday. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Amnesty: Discrimination, Police Brutality, Nazis Rage in Bulgaria [May 14, 2011] Amnesty International's 2010 report on human rights in Bulgaria slams the country's record, criticizing authorities for allowing excessive police violence and closing eyes to discrimnation. In particular, the report points out multiple cases of discrimination against the ethnic Roma minority, both by citizens and authorities. Amnesty recalls many cases - some of them confirmed by the European ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Agriculture Minister Vows to Limit FMD [Apr 09, 2011] The occurrence of foot-and-mouth disease in the south-eastern tip of of Bulgaria is a localized event and authorities will do everything possible to isolate it, stated Minister of Agriculture Miroslav Naydenov. Saturday Naydenov is on a visit to local town of Sredets, in which a temporary center for tackling the livestock disease has been established. Over the course of the first three months of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Joins EU Emergency Nuclear Safety Talks [Mar 15, 2011] The EU Energy Commissioner, G [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Detains 8 Random Aliens Trying to Enter from Turkey [Mar 06, 2011] Bulgarian border authorities have detained overnight eight persons attempting to illegally enter the country from Turkey in three separate cases. In one of them Bulgarian border police found and detained a Libyan citizen near the Malko Tarnovo checkpoint in the southeastern corner of the country, who was attempting to wander in Bulgaria. The information that the police has does not suggest that ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Fight Drug Trafficking with New Customs Unit [Mar 05, 2011] A new unit will be created in the Bulgarian Customs Agency which will aim to cope with the drug trafficking issue, the country's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has announced. The new unit will work in close collaboration with the special unit for fighting organized crime in the Bulgarian Interior Ministry, as well as with the US drug fighting authorities. On Saturday, Borisov gave a special ... [via YahooNews] More >>