International credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings (S&P) has revised down the outlook on Bulgaria’s long-term sovereign credit rating from positive to stable, while affirming the country’s long- and short-term foreign- and local-currency ratings at ‘BBB+/A-2’, the Finance Ministry »»»

International credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings (S&P) has revised down the outlook on Bulgaria’s long-term sovereign credit rating from positive to stable, while affirming the country’s long- and short-term foreign- and local-currency ratings at ‘BBB+/A-2’, the Finance Ministry »»»

Commenting on the news that Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings (S&P) has revised the outlook on Bulgaria's long-term sovereign credit rating, Progressive Bulgaria MP Ivan Yanev said on Bulgarian National Television that the revision is logical given the existing macroeconomic imbalances due to how th»»»

Commenting on the news that Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings (S&P) has revised the outlook on Bulgaria's long-term sovereign credit rating, Continue the Change Floor Leader Nikolay Denkov told Bulgarian National Television on Saturday: "Just a few days ago, we said that with the [2027 state] budget»»»

BRUSSELS: The former head of a care home for the disabled in Rwanda has beend detained in Belgium on suspicion of involvement in the African nation’s 1994 genocide, prosecutors said Saturday. The public prosecutor’s office said the man, described only as “R,” was arrested in Belgium late September »»»

Commenting on the news that Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings (S&P) has revised the outlook on Bulgaria's long-term sovereign credit rating, Continue the Change Floor Leader Nikolay Denkov told Bulgarian National Television on Saturday: "Just a few days ago, we said that with the [2027 state] budget»»»

Elisa Spiropali and Plarent Ndresa have been removed from all senior leadership bodies of Albania’s ruling Socialist Party (SP), including its Presidency and National Assembly. The decision was confirmed by Socialist Party Secretary-General Blendi Klosi, who clarified that Spiropali and Ndreca havr»»»

Democratic Bulgaria (DB) is calling for the 2027 draft state budget to be rewritten with a deficit below 3% of GDP to reduce the risk of slowing economic growth and recession, following S&P Global Ratings' revision of Bulgaria's credit rating outlook, the coalition said in a statement circulated by»»»

Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov described S&P Global Ratings’ revision of Bulgaria’s credit rating outlook as “yet another of the thousands of ‘benefits’ of eurozone membership”, claiming the country had been forced to join the eurozone illegally. He made the remarks in a Facebook post on Sa»»»

Tunis, Nov.14 (TAP) - The Textile Technical Centre (CETTEX)'s laboratories have just successfully passed their first surveillance audit and achieved an extension of the scope of accreditation for their analyses and tests, in accordance with the...»»»

GERB urged the government to interpret correctly the latest assessment by international credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings and avoid plunging Bulgaria into further crises, party representatives told a briefing at GERB headquarters on Saturday. On Friday evening, S&P Global »»»

Prime Minister Edi Rama has arrived at a resort in Gjiri i Lalëzit, where the ruling Socialist Party is holding its National Assembly amid renewed questions over the party’s leadership and internal political dynamics. Rama is expected to chair the meeting, scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Ministers»»»

LONDON: On Dec. 18, 2009, Houthi fighters in northern Yemen fired several artillery rockets across the border into Saudi Arabia. No casualties were recorded in what may have been the group’s first cross-border projectile attack on the Kingdom. Yet 17 years later, that strike stands as the opening s»»»

Damascus, Nov. 13 (SANA) The Syrian Arab Republic extended its sincere condolences and sympathy to the government and people of the Republic of Türkiye following the crash of a military helicopter and the deaths of its crew members. In a statement issued Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and »»»

Chief of Defence Admiral Emil Eftimov, in his address to the personnel of the Varna Naval Base on the occasion of the 129th anniversary of its establishment, said that in the context of a changing security environment, the role of the base will continue to grow, the Defence Ministry said on its web»»»

Four Turkish military personnel were killed when an S-70-type helicopter crashed in the country’s eastern province of Malatya, the National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. The ministry did not provide details about the aircraft’s mission or the number of personnel on board. There was no immediat»»»

President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam have reached a conclusion that they should soon place the issue of referring the Dahr al-Baidar case to the Judicial Council on the agenda of an upcoming cabinet session, MTV reported on Friday. A Hezbollah truck has been stopped at the Dahr al-B»»»

Regional Development and Public Works Minister Ivan Shishkov said at Parliament's Question Time on Friday he would insist on setting a deadline for completion of the south-eastern bypass of Plovdiv at the end of 2027. "A second agreement is forthcoming, in which I will insist that the deadline be s»»»

By Staff, Agencies Four Turkish military personnel died after an S-70 military helicopter crashed in Malatya province in eastern Turkey, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced on Thursday. The cause of the crash remains unknown. The helicopter went down around 6:45 PM local time in the Samankoy nei»»»

Bulgaria's unemployment rate stood at 3.1% in the third quarter of 2026, down 0.3 percentage points from the same period in 2025, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) reported on Friday. NSI data show that the unemployment rate was 3.5% in the second quarter of 2026, compared with 3.2% at the b»»»

Vazrazhdane deputy floor leader Petar Petrov told journalists in Parliament that his party will appeal a refusal by the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office to initiate pre-trial proceedings regarding the allegations made by Prime Minister Rumen Radev on May 29 that “based on actual figures calculated by»»»

GERB-UDF criticized Prime Minister Rumen Radev over Bulgaria’s reservations to the preamble of the Declaration on Key Principles of European Security signed in Dublin on November 12. GERB-UDF MP Daniel Mitov said, as he spoke at a press briefing in Parliament on Friday: "Yesterday, it was once agai»»»

Ivaylo Mirchev, co-chair of Yes, Bulgaria and MP from Democratic Bulgaria, has criticised Prime Minister Rumen Radev over what he described as Bulgaria’s reluctance to take a clear position on European security, arguing that the government’s reservations reflect political insecurity and fear of Mos»»»

A report by Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted a statement by the Guard as saying the attack on the U.S. radar system followed a U.S. strike on a telecommunications pole in the southern Iranian port of Sirik. Bahrain has been one of the strongest critics of Iran and is home to the U.S. Navy’s »»»

The Trump administration says it has returned more than $12 billion, or almost 99%, of the revenue obtained from the sales of Venezuelan oil since it ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro in January. In a report released Thursday by the State Department, the accounting firm KPMG said the sales of Ve»»»

Vazrazhdane Floor Leader Kostadin Kostadinov said in a declaration in Parliament on Friday that his party will refer Kaufland Bulgaria CEO Mahail Petrov's "criminal statements" to the prosecution service if the institution does not launch an investigation on its own initiative. Speaking at the thir»»»

Religious freedom, respect for fundamental rights and the specific features of religious life in Romania were among the topics discussed on Thursday at a meeting between State Secretary for Religious Affairs Ciprian Olinici and U.S. Ambassador to Romania Darryl Nirenberg."Common perspectives were a»»»

The Government is preparing a project for Romania's next 20 years in the European Union, with young people at its heart, Prime Minister Luca Niculescu said on Thursday, adding that the initiative is intended to be promoted jointly with other EU member states. "We have had a week with an intensive E»»»

By Staff, Agencies Outgoing “Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the “Yashar” party, and briefed him on the principal security and diplomatic challenges facing "Israel". In a joint statement issued on Thursday, the two sides said Eisenkot had received an upd»»»

From Indian shares to Chinese healthcare and LatAm banks, fund managers seek alternatives Dubai: For UAE investors holding global stocks, the latest selloff in artificial intelligence-linked companies raises a question: where can they find opportunities without depending heavily on a handful of tec»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Thursday expressed its condolences to the United Arab Emirates and Turkiye following two separate fatal crashes that claimed a combined 18 lives. In a statement posted on its X account, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed the Kingdom’s solidarity with the UAE afte»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia expressed its condolences to Turkiye after four military personnel were killed in a helicopter crash in the eastern province of Malatya. In a statement posted on X, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed the Kingdom’s “sincere condolences and heartfelt sympathy” to the »»»

Kaufland Bulgaria Executive Director Mihail Petrov’s comments on nearly EUR 76 million in competition fines drew criticism from the government, politicians, the regulator and trade unions on Thursday. Speaking at the third MORE THAN TRADE forum in Sofia, Petrov said leading specialists in antitrust»»»

LONDON: The Syrian Ministry of Defense expressed its deep sorrow and grief after a Turkish army helicopter crashed in Malatya province on Thursday, killing four military personnel. The ministry extended its condolences and sympathy to the leadership, armed forces and people of Turkiye for the loss »»»

Damascus, Nov. 12 (SANA) The Ministry of Defense expressed deep sorrow and grief over the crash of a Turkish Armed Forces helicopter in Malatya province, which claimed the lives of four crew members, extending its sincere condolences and sympathy to the friendly Republic of Türkiye—its leadership, »»»

The defence ministry offered condolences to the families of the victims Istanbul: Four military personnel were killed when a helicopter crashed in eastern Turkey for reasons that remain unclear, the defence ministry said on Thursday. "Four of our heroic comrades-in-arms on board were martyred when »»»

ISTANBUL: Four military personnel were killed when a helicopter crashed in eastern Turkiye for reasons that remain unclear, the defense ministry said on Thursday. “Four of our heroic comrades-in-arms on board were martyred when our S-70 helicopter crashed in Malatya for reasons that have not yet be»»»

The UK government on Thursday slapped new sanctions on all of Russia's top 10 oil producers ramping up pressure on Moscow over the Ukraine war. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he was unveiling "a sweep of stinging new sanctions to turn the screws on Russia's oil revenues and drive forward an en»»»

Megaspeed, the data center company at the center of the scandal engulfing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, pledged Thursday to cooperate with an investigation into potential risks to U.S. national security. Nvidia's board, meanwhile, was reportedly meeting to discuss Huang's future after revelations that h»»»

The Bulgarian National Assembly has approved at first reading a government proposal to raise the threshold for mandatory VAT registration to EUR 60,000 next year, with 122 votes in favor from Progressive Bulgaria. Forty-nine lawmakers from GERB-SDS, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), Democ»»»

Judicial and security authorities in Lebanon are investigating the circumstances surrounding the murder of former Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Alwani inside a residential apartment in Beirut, amid information that has so far ruled out financial motives or robbery behind the crime. While a Lebanese suspect is »»»

The bloc of Israeli prime ministerial hopeful Gadi Eisenkot introduced a series of bills at the start of the legislative session that target Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his policies. They include launching an official government-led inquiry into the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks, sett»»»

PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, November 12: We look at reactions from Spain after the country's first nationwide general strike in 14 years. It comes two weeks before snap general elections. Also: Scott Colom makes history as the first Black senator in Mississippi in 145 years after an epic Senate m»»»

Asen Vassilev, chairman of We Continue the Change (PP), has warned that Bulgarians face further impoverishment as inflation is expected to keep climbing, following Bulgargaz's request for a 14% increase in natural gas prices in December after a 32.5% rise in November. Further reading: Bulgarga»»»

Lawmakers from Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria (PB) party have secured first-reading approval for amendments banning the possession of homemade rakia produced by someone else, with fines of up to 2,000 euros for repeat violations, as part of changes to the Excise Duties and Tax Warehouses Act. T»»»

Bulgarian Defense Minister Dimitar Stoyanov said the country had failed to secure significant technology transfer benefits from key military modernization contracts, while some of the money allocated for this purpose had not delivered the expected results. Speaking at an event, titled "Technology T»»»

Proposed changes to Bulgaria's Personal Assistance Act have triggered widespread opposition from political parties, citizens, mothers of children with disabilities and non-governmental organizations, as lawmakers from the ruling Progressive Bulgaria (PB) party face accusations of weakening the labo»»»

Ukrainian ⁠President Volodymyr Zelensky ​on Thursday said that Ukrainian ​military units had recorded new and significant disruptions to the Starshield satellite communications service in recent days, affecting ​the ‌entire front ⁠line and Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zele»»»

Tunis, November 12, 2026 (TAP) – Tunisia's exports increased by 7.8% in the first ten months of 2026, reaching TND 56,299.6 million, compared with TND 52,214 million during the same period in 2025. They were driven mainly by stronger...»»»

Shipping earnings jump 846% as company raises 2026 outlook for fourth time Dubai: Higher global shipping rates have helped ADNOC Logistics and Services (ADNOC L&S) more than triple its profit in the first nine months of 2026, even as regional disruptions weighed on parts of its offshore operations.»»»