For the first time the Muslim community in Bulgaria is celebrating Ramadan Bayram outside mosques due to the anti-epidemic measures.
The Ramadan Bayram prayer service in Sofia was conducted by Grand Mufti Mustafa Hadzhi. Around 500 people got together for prayer early this morning in the sports field in Kurdzhali, southern Bulgaria, wearing face masks, observing the required distance, and each bringing their own prayer rug.
After prayers the local mayor, the Mufti and a Christian Orthodox priest sat down for coffee together as is the tradition.
The truck traffic on the Maritsa highway to the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing at the Bulgarian-Turkish border is now normalized. "As of this morning, there are no more queues of trucks standing on the roadway waiting to cross the border," assured..
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, searches have been carried out in Sofia, Burgas, Petrich and Rila in connection with an investigation into alleged fraud with EU funds in the restoration of a church. In 2017, a public tender..
One million and eight hundred Bulgarian citizens travelled as tourists during the third quarter of the year, National Statistical Institute data show. 72.3% of them travelled inside the country, 20.8% travelled abroad and 6.9% - both inside Bulgaria..
A quadripartite meeting of the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Romania in Budapest on 22 November made it clear that Austria would..
Overnight it will be mostly clear. Winds will weaken and die down in many areas. In the morning it will be cold, with minimum temperatures between minus..
The planned annual maintenance of Unit 6 of Bulgaria's only NPP, Kozloduy, has been completed. The unit was connected to the national grid at 10:07..
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