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At the request of the Sofia District Prosecution Office, a court has ordered the pre-trial detention of a Nigerian national who presented a forged document to an official at Vasil Levski Sofia Airport, the prosecution said on Tuesday. The man,

The Sofia Inspectorate will provide information on the quantities of waste being cleared in the borrows of Sofia in the coming days, aiming for transparency on how much work is being completed, Sofia Inspectorate Director Nikolay Nedelkov said at a briefing regarding garbage collection in Sofia on Tuesday.

Two Greek citizens were found dead in Hisarya (Central Bulgaria), the Regional Directorate of the Interior Ministry in Plovdiv said on Tuesday.

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The first Stryker combat vehicles will be transported from the US to Bulgaria in February, outgoing Defense Minister Atanas Zapryanov said in Veliko Tarnovo on Tuesday.

Fines for refusing to give change in euro range from BGN 600 to BGN 7,000, said Alexander Kolyachev, Acting Chair of the Consumer Protection Commission (CPC), at a news conference of the Coordination Centre on the Euro Adoption held at the Council of Ministers on Tuesday.

Returning change in Bulgarian lev when there is sufficient availability of euro is absolutely prohibited by law, Vladimir Ivanov said on Tuesday. Ivanov, head of the Euro Coordination Centre in Bulgaria and Commodity Exchange State Commission Chair,

More than 100 on-duty bank branches have been opened, operating on Saturdays to exchange leva into euros, Association of Banks in Bulgaria (ABB) Secretary General James Jolovski announced at a press conference of the Euro Coordination Centre in Bulgaria, held at the Council of Ministers on Tuesday. The initiative for exchanging leva into euros on Saturdays was launched by the Bulgarian National Bank and has been in place since December 2025, Jolovski said. He added that a full list of bank branches operating on Saturdays can be found on the ABB website, as well as on the websites of the individual banks.

Bulgaria will participate in the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna on May 14. On Monday, a draw was held to determine the order in which the participants will take the stage in this year's 70th anniversary edition of the

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) and Trakia University in Stara Zagora have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to strengthen research, education, and innovation in Bulgaria, BAS said in a press release Monday. The signing, by BAS

Pianist Donka Angatscheva will arrive in Sofia for her concert with the Sofia Philharmonic orchestra, accompanied by a Bosendorfer grand piano, the organizers said on Monday.

Around 60 paintings from the past four to five years went on show in the foyer of the Tear and Laughter (Salza i Smyah) Theatre in Sofia as part of the exhibition Nothing Is What It Is, Artist Ivaylo Andonov told BTA on Friday.

For yet another year, representatives of the Bulgarian community in North Macedonia commemorated the anniversary of the death of Mara Buneva in Skopje. They laid flowers at a memorial plaque of Mara Buneva on the quay of the Vardar River, and a

A barge carrying 1,133 tonnes of nitrogen fertiliser sank completely in the Danube River near the Romanian city of Zimnicea according to local media reports. Zimnicea is located opposite the Bulgarian city of Svishtov.

Six flights from Istanbul to Tehran have been cancelled so far due to tensions in the Iranian capital caused by protests. A check of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) on the website of Istanbul Airport shows that four Turkish Airlines flights and one flight each operated by Iran’s Taban Airlines and Sepehran Airlines have been cancelled.

Representatives of protesting Greek farmers will meet with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday, the online edition of the newspaper Kathimerini reported. The publication says that the talks will take place at Maximos Mansion in Athens,