Crime
A bomb exploded in the night hours of Wednesday in Bulgaria's southern town of Haskovo, Darik News reported.
The blast occurred around 4 in the morning in a perfumery and cosmetics shop in the centre of the town, near the local mosque.
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Man with a Bulgarian and a Turkish passport was found dead in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg on Monday, the web site fontanka.ru reported.
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The Regional Court in the Bulgarian town of Yambol sentenced Tuesday to 18-year imprisonment a man, who killed his infant child in an extremely cruel way.
After a domestic row on August 13 2006, Stefan Zlatev, 29, gripped the 3-year-old Nasko by the thro
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Two Bulgarian citizens were sentenced to nine years in prison in Spain, who are charged with using gorged credit cards, Spanish newspaper La Verdad reported on Tuesday.
The court in Alicante decided that two men will also have to pay a fine of EUR 3000 a
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An American, living in the Bulgarian town of Vratsa, was found guilty of underage sex abuse and porn materials distribution, Darik News reported.
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Diamonds that worth USD 28 M were stolen from an Antwerp bank by a man, who has been a trusted customer for a year using a stolen Argentine passport, Darik News reported. Prosecutors say the suspect broke into safety deposit boxes in an ABM Amro bank in t
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The collision of two cars on the Hristo Smirnenski boulevard in downtown Sofia injured three bystanders, Darik News reported on Monday.
The causes of the collision were not immediately clear, but both cars ended up in the outdoor section of a caf?©, wher
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A train carrying propane derailed near the town of Oneida, in New York, forcing authorities to evacuate the town's inhabitants and shut off a portion of a nearby motorway, the Associated Press reported on Monday.
The explosion followed the derailment of
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A Bulgarian citizen was arrested in Austria's province Burgenland on suspicions for people smuggling.
The 30-year-old man was detained late on Saturday night together with a fellow citizen and a 28-year-old Turkish.
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A 53-year-old man was beaten to death by a fellow villager after a drunken brawl in the village of Aidemir, Northern Bulgaria on Saturday.
The victim and his attacker, a 51-year-old man, were sitting at the same table in a local pub and drank a lot.
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Sofia district police chief has been dismissed days after the interior minister asked him to resign over the case of missing Croatian Ivan Mozhe.
Interior Minister Rumen Petkov has accused top cop Stoyan Stoyanov of covering up crucial for the investigat
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The severed human head, which was discovered last week near Bulgaria's town of Slivnitsa, does not belong to the allegedly kidnapped Croatian Ivan Mozhe, his lawyer said.
Lawyer Nikolay Berov made the statement in an interview for Darik News on Monday.
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Police is working on two versions for the death of a Bulgarian with dual citizenship, who was blasted in his car in Cyprus on Sunday.
The first hypothesis is that Anastasious Tsapelous and his wife Bulgarian Antoaneta Atanasova, who was seriously injured
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A Bulgarian with dual citizenship was killed in a Cyprus car blast on Sunday, Darik News reported, citing Foreign Ministry spokesman Dimitar Tsanchev.
Anastasious Tsapelous, who had both a Cyprian and a Bulgarian passport, was killed on the spot when his
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A Bulgarian man was killed in Cyprus when a blast ripped through his car in the resort of Limasol.
The man's wife, who was also in the car, has been hospitalized in critical condition, Darik News reported, quoting AFP.
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Bulgaria's Interior Minister Rumen Petkov has sacked officer Lyubomir Vladov from the Kalotina border checkpoint because he asked for a bribe.
A citizen called the anti-corruption hotline to report that Vladov had requested cash from passengers on a bus
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The son of a Sofia businessman has been kidnapped Friday night in the capital, reports claim.
The car the young man had been taken with was then torched in the Rodopski Izvor street, BGNES reported.
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Customs agents at Bulgaria's border checkpoint have seized more than 163 kilos of heroin, following a risk analysis method.
The agents stopped a Turkish truck going to Austria for a check and found 158 packets stashed in the driver's cabin.
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Five days after the blast in Bulgaria's Oranovo mine the explosion took its toll on one more life - that of Rossen Andreev, father of three children.
Crime | March 10, 2007, Saturday // 00:00
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Bulgaria's labour inspection have already made a pretty clear picture of what happened in the Monday mine blast that took the life of one worker and left three others in critical condition.
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Authorities in the Spanish town of Baldemoro have arrested two Bulgarian and two Romanian citizens for committing a series of thefts in bars and entertainment centers.
The four were accused of having committed 33 thefts in total.
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