Bulgaria’s government has resigned as mass protests gripped the country just weeks before it’s due to join the eurozone.

Law enforcement agencies have dismantled a sophisticated criminal network trafficking stolen cultural goods across Europe.

Bulgarian border authorities say they've seized one of the largest hauls of cocaine hidden in a van heading to Turkey.

Three Bulgarian nationals have been convicted by a London jury of spying for Russia.

Police in Bulgaria’s capital have clashed with nationalist protesters who demanded that the government scrap plans to bring the country into the eurozone.

Former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has invited his political opponents to hold talks on forming a new government.

Hundreds of angry farmers took to the streets in Bulgaria’s capital to complain of what they call “the total failure” of the government to meet the mounting challenges in the agricultural sector.

Thousands of Bulgarian soccer supporters have taken to the streets of the capital, Sofia, in protest over the management of the national soccer union, a demonstration that eventually turned violent.

Farmers across Bulgaria protested Monday after the government lifted a ban on food products from Ukraine, complaining that the move will cause an influx that drives down prices for local growers.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has visited the capitals of Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, discussing military aid and receiving assurances of support for Ukraine’s entry into NATO after its war with Russia is over.

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Bulgaria’s parliament has formally approved the new government proposed by two main political rivals — the GERB party of ex-Premier Boyko Borissov, which won the April general election, and the runner-up, the pro-European liberal coalition “We Continue the Change — Democratic Bulgaria.”.

Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel have won the International Booker Prize for “Time Shelter,” a darkly comic novel about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia.

Police in Bulgaria have discovered an abandoned truck containing the bodies of 18 migrants who suffocated to death.

The Treasury Department is imposing sanctions on five current and former Bulgarian officials, as well as five entities accused of illicit personal gain and undermining the country’s democratic institutions.

Bulgarian lawmakers have approved the country’s first military aid package to Ukraine involving a classified list of weapons prepared by the government.

Croatia has been given a green light to join the group of nations that make up Europe’s ID-check-free travel area, the European Union’s presidency says.

Bulgaria's interior ministry says two police officers were killed as they tried to stop a bus containing migrants who had entered the country illegally.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has handed a mandate to the third-largest political party in parliament to form a government after two previous attempts have failed.

Bulgaria’s president has launched talks with all political parties represented in parliament to see if there's still a chance to form a government and avoid another early election.

The leaders of Greece and Bulgaria have marked the completion of a new pipeline that will supply natural gas from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria.

A Russian diplomat says two airplanes are set to depart Bulgaria with scores of Russian diplomatic staff and their families amid a mass expulsion that has sent relations soaring between the two historically close nations.

An international rights group says that Bulgarian authorities are attacking Afghan and other asylum-seekers, using police dogs and other violence to illegally push them back over the border into Turkey.

Poland's government and gas companies are working to restore the flow of gas to some municipalities after a Russian energy firm slapped with sanctions halted supply.

Russia cut off natural gas to NATO members Poland and Bulgaria and threatened to do the same to other countries, using its most essential export as an attempt to punish and divide the West for its united support of Ukraine.

Officials in Poland and Bulgaria say Russia is suspending deliveries of natural gas to their countries starting Wednesday.

The U.S. is pressing its allies to move “heaven and earth” to keep Kyiv well-supplied with the weapons it needs to repel Russian forces, as Moscow rains fire on eastern and southern Ukraine.

A prosecutor’s decision to release Bulgarian ex-Prime Minister Boyko Borissov from custody without pressing any corruption charges against him prompted sharp criticism Saturday from Bulgaria’s government.

Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has been detained in a nationwide police operation following probes of the EU prosecutor’s office.

The governments of Bulgaria and North Macedonia have held a joint session to improve relations.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has taken the oath of office for his second term.

Bulgaria's health authorities say the country's top leaders are self-isolating after being in contact with the parliamentary speaker who tested positive for the coronavirus.

Bulgarian shoppers are crossing Turkey’s western border in packed cars and buses, taking advantage of a declining Turkish lira to fuel their own shopping sprees.

A ruling by the European Union’s top court has boosted the rights of same-sex parents and their children in the 27-nation bloc.

Bulgaria and North Macedonia have begun periods of national mourning in honor of the victims of a bus crash that killed 45 people and injured six others.

Authorities say a bus carrying tourists back to North Macedonia crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria, killing at least 45 people, including a dozen children.

Thousands of restaurant owners, chefs, waiters and bartenders are protesting in cities across Bulgaria against the government’s decision to impose a mandatory COVID-19 health pass on people seeking to enter indoor venues.

Hundreds of Bulgarian coal miners and energy workers are protesting to demand government guarantees for their jobs amid bids by the European Union to close mines and reduce carbon emissions.

Albania's prime minister has complained about the delay in the launch of his country's membership negotiations with the European Union, saying Bulgaria’s veto is holding the process hostage.

Bulgaria’s president has called a third parliamentary election this year that will be held on Nov. 14 after two previous votes failed to produce a government.

Bulgaria's central electoral commission says that an anti-elite party appears to have won the country's early parliamentary election, with nearly 99 % of the ballots counted.

Bulgaria’s interim prime minister is urging the government to redouble its efforts to fight endemic graft, calling for changes in prosecutors’ offices, the judiciary and all law enforcement agencies.

Groups of refugees and economic migrants trying to reach Western Europe regularly give accounts of police forcibly pushing them back across borders in the Balkans.

In this photo provided by Bulgaria's Interior Ministry on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, a policemen takes a photo of counterfeit money at a printing office in a university in Sofia. Bulgarian authorities say they have seized high-quality forged banknotes produced at a printing office in a university in the Bulgarian capital. SOFIA – Police seized high-quality forged banknotes produced at a printing office at a university in Bulgaria's capital, authorities said Tuesday. The amount of counterfeit money seized is $4 million and 3.6 million euros, according to the prosecutor’s office. Police believe that the two suspects are part of a larger criminal enterprise, dealing in the trafficking of counterfeit dollars to Ukraine, and of euros to Western Europe.

Bulgarian far-right nationalists hold torches as they gather in the country's capital, to honour a World War II general known for his anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi activities, in Sofia, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)SOFIA – Far-right nationalists gathered in Bulgaria's capital Saturday to honor a late World War II general known for his anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi activities. AdThe general served as war minister from 1935 to 1938, and led the pro-Nazi Germany Union of Bulgarian Legions from 1932 until 1943. Contemporary nationalists deny that Lukov was an anti-Semitic fascist or that they are promoting neo-fascism. On Saturday, Bulgarian National Union supporters placed a wreath and flowers in front of Lukov’s former home and held torch lights in tribute.

(AP Photo/Valentina Petrova, FILE)GENEVA – The head of the World Health Organization said Monday the emergence of new COVID-19 variants has raised questions about whether or not existing vaccines will work, calling it “concerning news” that the vaccines developed so far may be less effective against the variant first detected in South Africa. That designation would allow millions of doses to be shipped to poor countries as part of a U.N.-backed effort to distribute COVID-19 vaccines worldwide known as COVAX. Last week, Tedros said that more than three quarters of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in just 10 countries and that immunization in nearly 130 countries had yet to start. Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, WHO's chief scientist, said people shouldn't conclude from South Africa's decision that the AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't work. She said all of the available evidence to date shows the vaccines developed so far reduce deaths, hospitalizations and severe disease.

That dilemma faces nations in southeastern Europe, where coronavirus vaccination campaigns are off to a slow start — overshadowed by heated political debates and conspiracy theories. In countries like the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania and Bulgaria, vaccine skeptics have included former presidents and even some doctors. “There is a direct link between support for conspiracy theories and skepticism toward vaccination,” a recent Balkan study warned. Djokovic has said he was against being forced to take a coronavirus vaccine in order to travel and compete but was keeping his mind open. In Bulgaria, widespread conspiracy theories hampered past efforts to deal with a measles outbreak.

SOFIA – Addressing an EU enlargement summit Tuesday, Bulgaria's leader pledged his support for the Western Balkan countries on the path of being integrated into the European Union. Leaders of EU countries and of membership candidates Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo discussed their accession prospects at a so-called Berlin Process summit jointly chaired by Bulgaria and North Macedonia. Both declarations, which aim to further align the Western Balkans with EU norms and standards, were signed online during the summit. “Let’s not forget that the Western Balkans together represent a market of about 20 million people. The next summit will be held next year in the German capital, Merkel told participants at the end of the forum.

In Bulgaria, Roma communities were sprayed with disinfectant from crop dusters this spring as coronavirus cases surged in the country. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)BURGAS – In Bulgaria, Roma communities were sprayed with disinfectant from crop dusters this spring as coronavirus cases surged in the country. In a recent report, the European Roma Rights Centre documented 20 instances of what it called disproportionate force by police against Roma in five countries — noting that was an unusually high number. In Bulgaria, the authorities’ use of thermal drones to measure the temperatures of entire Roma neighborhoods has raised surveillance concerns. “This wouldn’t have happened in a white, middle-class neighborhood, and it shouldn’t have happened to the Roma either,” said Jonathan Lee of the European Roma Rights Centre.

Stanley Johnson, father of Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaks with local reporters outside his Villa Irene in Horto village, Mount Pelion (also known as Pilio), central Greece, Friday, July 3, 2020. (Dimitris Kareklidis/magnesianews.gr via AP)LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons father has defended his decision to fly to Greece via Bulgaria in order to COVID-proof his property there before he potentially rents it out. Stanley Johnson, the father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has defended his widely criticized decision to fly to Greece via Bulgaria in order to COVID-proof his property ahead of potentially letting it out. All I can say is that its always a great joy to me, its such a great joy to me, to arrive in Greece, Johnson said Friday. Boris Johnson also refused Friday to be drawn into his fathers travel arrangements.

Bulgarian fans gesture during the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifier between Bulgaria and England on Oct. 14, 2019, in Sofia, Bulgaria. (CNN) - A Euro 2020 qualifier match between Bulgaria and England in Sofia was temporarily halted twice Monday night over racist abuse hurled at English players. "The referee has indicated that he may have to suspend the match," the announcer said and warned against racist behavior, according to Britain's PA news agency. Bulgaria was sanctioned earlier this year for racist chanting during qualifiers against Kosovo and the Czech Republic in June. The game carried on into the second half, with England ultimately beating Bulgaria 6-0.