Eighty-seven foreign nationals have been detained over the past 24 hours as they tried to cross illegally the Bulgarian-Serbian border, Border Police General Directorate said. About 8 pm last night a border policeman from the town of Tran found 54 persons without ID documents in the area of the village of Bankya who declared their nationalities as Afghan, Pakistani and Iraqi. Forty one of them who have been registered at the State Agency for Refugees have been taken away from the border zone. The rest thirteen persons have been taken to the center for temporary accommodation in Lubimets. Border police from Belogradchik have detained sixteen Iraqis not far from the Bulgaria-Serbia border, and their colleagues from Kalotina – seventeen Afghans.
The regional governor of Plovdiv, Prof. Hristina Yancheva, announced a partial state of emergency in Hisarya and Kaloyanovo, BTA has reported. The measure was introduced because of the fires in the area of the villages of Pesnopoi and Mihiltsi near..
The European Commission has approved state aid amounting to EUR 142 million (BGN 278 million) to support the energy sector, BNR’s correspondent in Brussels reports. The money is being granted to alleviate part of the expenses of the companies which..
Army personnel and two helicopters from the 24 th air base at Krumovo have joined the efforts to extinguish a big fire in Mount Sredna Gora close to Pesnopoy village, Kaloyanovo municipality and Mihiltsi village, Hisarya municipality. The..
Sunday will be sunny and hot. There will be a light, in the Eastern parts to moderate wind from the East-Northeast. Maximum temperatures 35-40° C.,..
Pomorie on the Black Sea is, once again, inviting jazz and classic cars fans to the festival Anhialo Classic Cars & Jazz Fest , organized..
Seven fires are burning in forest areas in the districts of Plovdiv, Haskovo, Kyustendil and Yambol, the Executive Forests Agency said. In..
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