Progressive Bulgaria will not allow the case involving journalist Sonya Koltuklieva to be used for political purposes, the party's press service said in a statement on Friday. The statement followed Thursday's incident outside the party's headquarters. Video footage of Thursday's incident outside t»»»

Sofia Deputy Mayor Nikolay Nedelkov and Bankya Mayor Rangel Markov launched Sofia’s autumn planting campaign for the New Sofia Forest in the Bankya borough on Friday. The campaign aims to plant another 7,500 black pine saplings across 3 hectares, building on spring planting that saw 7,500 saplings »»»

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His son claimed to have found illicit material at the family home in Cebu province Dubai: The Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating reports of illicit material allegedly found at the home of Thomas Markle Sr., the estranged father of Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex. DOJ under»»»

BUCHAREST: Romanian President Nicusor Dan accused Russia of escalating its attacks on NATO's eastern flank on Friday, after a drone strike ​sank a cargo ship off the Romanian Black Sea coast, killing at least one sailor with three still missing. Video released by Romanian authorities showed only a »»»

Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov, who attended the Distinguished Visitors Day of the multinational experimental exercise BOLD ADRA 26 at Cheshnegirovo Air Base, told journalists on Friday that all available resources of the Bulgarian Armed Forces' disposal had been mobilized to secure the Black Se»»»

The Union of Bulgarian Journalists (UBJ) on Friday condemned an incident in which a National Service for Protection (NSP) officer pushed journalist Sonya Koltuklieva to the ground. The union renewed its call for legislative changes to protect journalists' rights, their work and freedom of speech. T»»»

A Russian citizen wanted over a 2005 murder in Moscow has been extradited from Bulgaria to Russia, Russian Interior Ministry spokesperson Irina Volk announced. The suspect is accused of killing a man in Moscow before leaving Russia and going into hiding to avoid law enforcement authorities. The han»»»

Major General Emil Tonev, head of Bulgaria’s National Service for Protection (NSO), has said he is prepared to resign, the service announced in a press release, following an incident in which a security officer knocked journalist Sonya Koltuklieva to the ground. President Iliana Yotova said earlier»»»

Journalist Sonya Koltuklieva remains hospitalized at St. Sofia Hospital after being shoved to the ground by a National Security Service (NSO) officer during an encounter outside the headquarters of Progressive Bulgaria in Sofia, prompting political demands for the resignation of Parliament Speaker »»»

Bulgarian Air Force Commander Major General Nikolay Rusev said on BNT that enhanced patrolling over the Black Sea would continue for as long as necessary as a preventive response to the war north of Bulgaria. Rusev said Bulgaria had the trained personnel and aircraft needed to carry out the mission»»»

BULGARIA VOTES FOR PRESIDENT ON OCTOBER 25 The election campaign ahead of Sunday's presidential elections in Bulgaria concludes at midnight on Friday, October 23. Saturday, October 24, is the official day of reflection, during which election campaigning is prohibited. Voting on Sunday will begin at»»»

GERB-UDF wants Parliament Chair Mihaela Dotsova to take political responsibility following a Thursday night incident involving a National Service for Protection (NSP) officer and journalist Sonia Koltuklieva, GERB-UDF Deputy Floor Leader Denitsa Sacheva told reporters in Parliament on Friday. Video»»»

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry honoured nine schoolchildren on Friday for acts of honesty and civic responsibility that assisted law enforcement authorities, as part of its Little Big Heroes campaign. Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev presented awards to four boys from Blagoevgrad who found and retu»»»

Bucharest: Romania launched a rescue operation on Friday after a ship sent a distress signal, the latest in a spate of incidents in the Black Sea, where suspected Russian drones have hit several vessels off Romania and Bulgaria. “Rescue vessels have managed to recover nine people alive, and one bod»»»

Major General Emil Tonev, head of Bulgaria’s National Service for Protection (NSP), has expressed his willingness to resign from his post, the service said in a press release on Friday. Earlier in the day, President Iliana Iotova said she would seek Tonev’s resignation. An internal inquiry ordered »»»

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Galab Donev has called for realistic budget planning and financial discipline in the coming years, citing a 2025 budget deficit of 4% of gross domestic product and the consequences of accumulated fiscal imbalances. Speaking ahead of a meeting of »»»

President Iliana Iotova said on Friday that she would seek National Service for Protection (NSP) Chief Emil Tonev's resignation following an incident involving the service and journalist Sonya Koltuklieva. She cited shortcomings in the handling of the incident and said she expected resignations. “A»»»

Around 40% of eligible voters, or between 2.6 million and 2.7 million people, are expected to vote in Sunday’s presidential election, according to a survey by polling agency Alpha Research. The projected turnout represents a slight increase from the 37% recorded at the start of the campaign. The su»»»

Kiryat Shmona has long been a bastion of support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party. But that loyalty is no longer ironclad. Once a bustling commercial center, Israel's northernmost city was temporarily evacuated three years ago after being battered by rockets from nearby Lebanon, »»»

In a position published Friday, the Democratic Bulgaria coalition called for the resignation of National Service for Protection (NSP) head Emil Tonev and Parliament Chair Mihaela Dotsova. "A government that has lost touch with reality cannot ensure the unity of the nation," reads the position, prom»»»

Alpha Research puts the presidential ticket of Iliana Yotova and Kiril Valchev at 41.1%, ahead of Andrey Gyurov and Georgi Kandev at 28.3%, while a separate survey by Trend also shows Yotova in the lead as Bulgaria approaches its October 25 presidential election. Alpha Research’s findings, publishe»»»

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Bulgaria’s General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GDCOC) has dismantled an organized criminal group involved in smuggling goods from Turkiye and selling them in Bulgaria through a scheme designed to evade taxes, the Directorate said on its Facebook page. The operation was carried out on»»»

Kiryat Shmona has long been a bastion of support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party. But that loyalty is no longer ironclad. Once a bustling commercial center, Israel's northernmost city was temporarily evacuated three years ago after being battered by rockets from nearby Lebanon, »»»

GERB has collected 39 of the 80 signatures from MPs required to convene an extraordinary sitting of the National Assembly and to call for the resignation of Parliament Chair Mihaela Dotsova, the party announced on Facebook on Friday. GERB calls on all opposition parliamentary groups to join the two»»»

Bulgaria’s airspace is protected, but we still need to take certain preventive measures to ensure that nothing enters our airspace, Major General Nikolay Rusev, Commander of the Bulgarian Air Force, said in an interview on Bulgarian National Television’s (BNT) morning programme here on Friday. He c»»»

Ukraine's recovery and reconstruction needs are estimated at almost 600 billion US dollars over the next decade, and Romania wants to contribute as a long-term partner through projects that create value on both sides of the border, Finance Minister Alexandru Nazare said on Thursday at an event dedi»»»

Romania wants to be not only a transit country for Ukraine but also wants to effectively participate in this process of its reconstruction, which certainly a single state will not be able to carry out with a few companies, Secretary General of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (CCIR) »»»

A total of 31,328 calls were registered to the 112 emergency hotline in Bulgaria from October 16 to 23, which is an increase by 10.7% from the same period of 2025, the Interior Ministry's National System 112 Directorate reported on Friday. Of these calls, 13,567 were referred to emergency medical c»»»

Bulgaria has had seven presidents since the post of head of state was created in the spring of 1990: a communist reformer who lasted three months, a dissident philosopher, a provincial lawyer, a socialist historian, a construction businessman, an air force general and a former television journalist»»»

National Protection Service (NSO) officer Martin Varadinov has been detained after pushing journalist Sonya Koltuklieva to the ground during an incident involving Parliamentary Speaker Mihaela Dotsova, with the case now under investigation by the Military Prosecutor’s Office. Varadinov was escorted»»»

The Association of European Journalists – Bulgaria (AEJ) has called for a swift, transparent investigation and accountability after a National Service for Protection (NSP) officer used physical force against PIK reporter Sonya Koltuklieva, the organization said in a statement. The association also »»»

The reported voter turnout for the presidential election on October 25 stands at 47% of all adult Bulgarian citizens residing in the country, show the findings of a Trend survey presented on Friday. In absolute terms, this amounts to just under 2.5 million people who say they will exercise their ri»»»

The Interreg VI-A Greece-Bulgaria Cooperation Programme will host a high-level meeting on Friday to mark the official opening of the new Dimario-Rudozem border crossing between Greece and Bulgaria, acccording to a press release on the Programme's website. The opening is described as a landmark achi»»»

Iliaana Yotova and Kiril Valchev lead Bulgaria’s presidential election race with 43.4% support, ahead of Andrey Gyurov and Georgi Kandev at 28.9%, according to a nationally representative survey by polling agency Myara for the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR). The poll, reflecting voter preferences i»»»

Journalist Sonya Koltuklieva was hospitalized after a National Protection Service (NSO) officer forcefully threw her to the ground as she tried to question Parliamentary Speaker Mihaela Dotsova outside the headquarters of Prime Minister Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party in Sofia, according t»»»

Russia’s latest attacks on Ukraine show there has been “no real change” in Moscow’s attitude towards the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday. The deadly strikes came just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin told US envoy Steve Witkoff his country was ready to resume t»»»

The Sofia District Court has ordered 23-year-old Syrian national Mahmoud Muhammad to remain in custody over a knife attack near Sofia’s National Palace of Culture (NDK) on October 16 that left three young men injured, ruling that he was the aggressor. Muhammad has been charged with inflicting bodil»»»

Anti-corruption movement gains momentum in Serbia's tense political landscape Around 150,000 supporters of Serbia's opposition student movement rallied in central Belgrade on Thursday, seeking to oust the party of veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic in crunch parliamentary elections this weekend. The S»»»

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The National Service for Protection (NSP) officer involved in Thursday's incident with journalist Sonya Koltuklieva was led out in handcuffs from the Military District Prosecution Office building in Sofia, a BTA reporter saw on Thursday night. The officer was then taken away by the Military Police.»»»

The Iliana Iotova - Kiril Valchev ticket closed its presidential campaign in the Saedinenie (Unification) Hall at the Regional History Museum in Plovdiv on Thursday. Iotova said the national ideal of Unification had begun to be realized in this hall. She stressed that Unity Makes Strength was not j»»»

The Iliana Iotova - Kiril Valchev ticket closed its presidential campaign in the Saedinenie (Unification) Hall at the Regional History Museum in Plovdiv on Thursday. Iotova said the national ideal of Unification had begun to be realized in this hall. She stressed that Unity Makes Strength was not j»»»

Bulgaria's National Service for Protection (NSP) has ordered an immediate and thorough investigation into the actions of security officers involved in an incident with a journalist from the PIK news agency, the service's press office said on Thursday. The NSP said it had reviewed video footage of t»»»

Bulgaria's National Service for Protection (NSP) has ordered an immediate and thorough investigation into the actions of security officers involved in an incident with a journalist from the PIK news agency, the service's press office said on Thursday. The NSP said it had reviewed video footage of t»»»

Students from the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) held their tenth protest march, demanding the resignation of Rector Prof. Miroslav Dachev and, for the first time, that of Minister of Education and Science Georgi Valchev. The protesters are calling for the minist»»»

Prime Minister Rumen Radev sent an open letter to the political groups in the European Parliament, through its President, Roberta Metsola. The letter follows the adoption of a resolution by the EP earlier Thursday expressing support and solidarity with Bulgaria’s efforts to investigate drone attack»»»

Burgas Deputy Regional Prosecutor Miroslav Iliev told reporters on Thursday that the prosecution service is investigating whether certain companies were given preferential treatment in winning public procurements in the municipality of Sungurlare, in exchange for which they were required to pay bet»»»

Addressing potential voters on Thursday, presidential candidate Kostadin Kostadinov said that a head of State should be able to talk to everyone, listen to everyone, and respect everyone, even those who do not like them. Both Kostadinov and his running mate, Petar Volgin, stated that they have the »»»