Presidential candidate Iliana Iotova said on Thursday she would focus first on the incomes of the poorest and most vulnerable people and investment funding when reviewing the next budget. She was debating presidential candidate Andrey Gurov on Bulgarian National Television (BNT) ahead of the Novemb»»»

By Staff, Agencies Europe’s largest oil companies more than doubled their profits over the latest quarter as households across the continent faced soaring energy bills amid the US-“Israeli” war on Iran, according to quarterly earnings figures compiled by Germany’s Der Spiegel. Eight months after US»»»

MOGADISHU: The United Nations’ political mission in Somalia ends Saturday, closing more than three decades of successive UN missions that helped rebuild a country shattered by civil war and leaving no agreed replacement to help rival leaders resolve disputes. The government calls the closure a mile»»»

NEW YORK CITY: The continuing detention by the Houthis of 71 members of UN staff renders humanitarian operations in rebel-controlled areas of Yemen “untenable,” the UN said on Thursday. It came as more than 800,000 people in and around the besieged city of Taiz remained cut off from deliveries of f»»»

The president cannot replace the executive but can provide a counterweight and balance in government, presidential candidate Andrey Gurov said during Thursday's debate on Bulgarian National Television (BNT). He was debating presidential candidate Iliana Iotova ahead of the presidential runoff. Guro»»»

ConflictsEuropeRussia shadow fleet sanctions: Can the EU act if the US pulls back?Srinivas MazumdaruThe US is reportedly considering ways to convert "dark tankers" into legitimate vessels, allowing them to transport crude oil that is not subject to sanctions. https://p.dw.com/p/5OmFfPrefer DW on Go»»»

RIYADH: South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung condemned Houthi attacks targeting civilian facilities in the Kingdom during a phone call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday. The two leaders also discussed Saudi-South Korean relations and ways to further develop them across variou»»»

Europe needs a genuine peace agreement involving both Ukraine and Russia, presidential candidate Iliana Iotova said during Thursday's debate on Bulgarian National Television (BNT). Debating presidential candidate Andrey Gurov, she said the agreement should set out how to end the war, what peace in »»»

The French proposal on North Macedonia protected Bulgarian citizens' interests and made Bulgaria's position part of the common European stance, presidential candidate Andrey Gurov said during Thursday's debate on Bulgarian National Television (BNT). He was debating presidential candidate Iliana Iot»»»

Claims come as projections suggest his bloc has fallen short of a parliamentary majority Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party on Thursday amplified unsubstantiated allegations that Arab-led parties had "stolen" the election, potentially with foreign assistance, as final resu»»»

Heavy rain triggers collapse at famous Fairy Chimneys, killing two Turks and a foreigner Dubai: Three people, including a foreign national, were killed and five others injured after heavy rainfall triggered a rock collapse at a popular tourist site in Turkey's Cappadocia region, local authorities s»»»

Hoping for a moratorium was not a defence strategy, and silence was not defence, presidential candidate Andrey Gurov said during Thursday's election debate with Iliana Iotova. Bulgaria should have identified the threat and its source, supported the UN resolution and joined systems for protection ag»»»

Two Socialist Party lawmakers have requested official clarification from Albania’s Ministry of Justice over the transfer of Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj from the Durrës pre-trial detention facility to the prison institution in Fier. According to a source within the Socialist Party’s parliamentary grou»»»

The Justice Minister Toni Gogu has ordered an inspection of 24 prisoner transfers carried out over an 11-day period in October, including the transfer of Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj from the Durrës pre-trial detention facility to the prison institution in Fier. The review will examine transfers condu»»»

LONDON: Flooding across the Syrian Arab Republic has killed five people, including four children, and left five others missing, the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management said on Thursday evening. Search operations continued in rural areas of Raqqa, Deir Ezzor and Aleppo as rescue crews resp»»»

Patterson was found guilty of murdering her husband's parents and an elderly aunt Melbourne: Australian mushroom murderer Erin Patterson will learn Friday if she has succeeded in overturning her conviction for killing three people with a poisoned beef Wellington lunch. Patterson, 52, was found guil»»»

DUBAI: Hassan Aliwi waited nine years to find out what had happened to his family in Raqqa. In September, he finally heard. His sister Manar, her husband Bassam and five children had been killed when their building was destroyed in August 2017. His father had been in that building with them, and no»»»

The countries plan to release the oil by January 2027, including 20.5m barrels of diesel Brussels: A dozen European countries pledged Thursday to jointly release 42.6 million barrels of oil by the end of January, in line with a G7 deal struck this month to ease global energy supply concerns. "EU me»»»

LONDON: An Israeli company has been found leafleting at an event in London to recruit Jewish doctors to work at clinics in illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories. Sky News reported seeing the leaflets at a MedEx event on Oct. 25 that was organized in partnership with Israeli government bod»»»

CARACAS: Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Thursday thanked the government of US President Donald Trump for opening Venezuela’s “floodgate to freedom” by capturing president Nicolas Maduro in January. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate spoke at a press conference in Caracas after returning to V»»»

Bulgaria carried out pollution checks and reviewed its security response on Thursday after the drone-hit container ship Contship Jet sank in the Black Sea, while the European Commission expressed solidarity and condemned the attacks. The vessel sank around midnight, Varna Regional Administration sa»»»

European Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration Piotr Serafin began a two-day visit to Bulgaria on Thursday, the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria said. The visit is part of his European tour to consult EU Member States on the bloc’s next long-term budget. Serafi»»»

By Staff, Agencies The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says three oil tankers attempting to transit an unauthorized route south of the Strait of Hormuz struck naval mines, triggering explosions and fires. In a statement on Thursday, the IRGC Navy’s public relations office said the vessels we»»»

TOLEDO: Spain began demanding answers on Thursday after the toll from the country’s second high-speed train collision this year rose to 69 people, with scores injured and distraught relatives desperately seeking news about their loved ones. One of Europe’s deadliest rail disasters this century stru»»»

The Ministry of Education and Science presented its annual Pythagoras National Awards for Contributions to Science at a ceremony in Sofia on Thursday evening. The ceremony was held at the Central Military Club and opened by Minister of Education and Science Georgi Valchev. Scientists change the wor»»»

Cyfrowy Polsat announced a new strategy on October 29, outlining asset disposals and substantial investment as the media and telecommunications group reshapes its business. The plan follows a resolution of the Solorz family's ownership dispute and the appointment of Piotr Żak to lead the group's ke»»»

BELGRADE - New Democratic Party of Serbia (New DSS) leader Milos Jovanovic has resigned from the post after the party failed to clear the electoral threshold in the October 25 parliamentary elections, but its Presidency unanimously rejected the move on Wednesday. Jovanovic stood by the position tha»»»

Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova and Canada's newly appointed Ambassador to Bulgaria Kevin Rex discussed closer political dialogue and bilateral cooperation, the Foreign Ministry said on its website on Thursday. The meeting focused on security and defence, energy, trade and investment, innovation»»»

The leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, stated that the Saudi regime has returned to practicing its criminality against the Yemeni people at the highest levels of escalation and tyranny, under American supervision and Zionist push, following what was descri»»»

Continue the Change (CC) Chair Assen Vassilev accused Prime Minister Rumen Radev on Thursday of causing a diplomatic scandal in Romania with his remarks about another ship being struck. He was speaking on bTV's Face to Face programme. Radev had commented on attacks against ships in the Black Sea du»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Yemen discussed efforts to support the Yemeni government amid escalating Houthi attacks on civilians and vital infrastructure, as renewed fighting worsened the country’s humanitarian crisis. During a phone call on Thursday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan an»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's civil defense issued warnings of danger for Riyadh, Najran and Al-Kharj on Thursday evening.Messages were issued about 20 minutes after the initial alerts to say that the danger had passed in all three areas. The warnings came as the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen contin»»»

LONDON: Israeli violence and restrictions on access to schools are eroding more than Palestinian children’s education in parts of the West Bank. They are weakening families’ faith in the value of schooling itself, according to Ahmad Hneiti, field projects manager at the Tamer Institute for Communit»»»

A humanitarian aid mission is set to enter the Ukrainian town of Oleshky, a Ukrainian official said on Thuirsday, as a localised truce between Kyiv and Moscow, brokered by US first lady Melania Trump, held for a third day. Some 2,000 residents in the Russian occupied city have been cut off from ess»»»

Rescue teams save 15 people and evacuate 375 families as floods damage bridges and roads Dubai: At least five people, including four children, have died and several others are missing after heavy rainfall and flash floods swept through parts of Syria, damaging bridges, cutting off roads and forcing»»»

Lahore, Pakistan: Pavan Rathnayake's brilliant century proved futile as England defended a massive 387-run target to defeat Sri Lanka by 55 runs in Thursday's dead-rubber ODI at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Sri Lanka's Pavan Rathnayake plays a shot during the one-day international (ODI) tri-series cr»»»

Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Pekanov said Bulgaria cannot immediately bring its budget deficit down to 3% and will need to reduce it gradually, as other countries facing excessive deficit procedures have done. Pekanov said countries subject to such procedures generally need two to three years to ex»»»

Online, relatives and friends flooded social media with desperate appeals for information Toledo, Spain: Families desperately searched for missing loved ones Thursday, more than 24 hours after two high-speed trains collided in central Spain, killing at least 74 and injuring dozens of others. “I hav»»»

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Wednesday for a global maritime truce after a drone attack sank a Greek container ship off Bulgaria, the latest of a series of strikes on ships in the western Black Sea this month. Speaking at ‌a high-level ‌debate of the ‌Greek presidency of the U»»»

Qatar on Thursday rejected accusations that it interfered in Israeli elections to influence the results, calling them "dangerous". Israel’s Central Elections Committee called on the Shin Bet chief to investigate allegations of foreign interference, as the final results remain pending. Follow our li»»»

Hungary’s National Bureau of Investigation has confirmed receiving a criminal complaint against former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán over remarks about distributing ‘appropriate tools’ for resistance. Authorities are now examining the complaint, but it’s unclear whether a criminal investigation will »»»

The Brazilian election results had barely been announced before the defeated presidential candidate, Flavio Bolsonaro, packed his bags and fled with his family to the United States. The move may have dealt a serious blow to the already tarnished family brand, but does it spell the end for “Bolsonar»»»

Brazil's defeated far-right presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro insisted on Wednesday he is his country's rightful leader after arriving in the United States to start a self-imposed exile. Bolsonaro's defiance on fleeing to Florida signalled continued upheaval for Brazil, where leftist Presiden»»»

WASHINGTON — The United States posted strong economic growth in the third quarter, but the Fed's preferred inflation gauge also accelerated, the Commerce Department said on Thursday, in a mixed economic bag for US President Donald Trump ahead of key midterm polls next week.Real GDP increased at an »»»

AMMAN — Dar Al Dawa Development and Investment Company recorded net sales of JD61.15 million in the first nine months of 2026, up 9 per cent from JD56.04 million in the corresponding period of 2025.Gross profit rose by 19 per cent to JD27.57 million, while net profit increased by 59 per cent to JD4»»»

TEHRAN: At least four tankers have caught fire after hitting mines while attempting to navigate the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s armed forces claimed on Thursday, a day after the US military said it had cleared key routes through the waterway. “Over the past 24 hours, three violating oil tankers explod»»»

JEDDAH: Local authorities in Yemen’s Taiz have called for an urgent, UN-backed investigation into reports that Houthi forces fired artillery shells and rockets suspected of containing internationally banned chemical substances, amid escalating fighting that has worsened the humanitarian crisis in t»»»

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee apologised on Thursday for a fire that ravaged a residential tower blocks in Tai Po in November 2025, killing 168, injuring 79 and displacing thousands of others. Housing Secretary Winnie Ho resigned Wednesday for her department's failure to supervise the maintena»»»

Sanrio, the company behind the hugely successful Hello Kitty franchise, has apologised and ended its commercial tie-up with a Japanese TV drama after Chinese state media accused the show of "smearing China", sparking a social media backlash. Sanrio, the Japanese company behind the popular character»»»