Turkish authorities have released CCTV images of a man suspected of involvement in the death of a prominent journalist of Armenian descent. In one image of CCTV camera the young man can be seen running while tucking what officials believe is a gun into h
Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler said that three people were detained in regard to killing of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos. "It is matter of time to reach a conclusion regarding assassination of Dink," he said as q
The Mayor of Bulgaria's village of Radnevo has received a letter that threatens him and warns him to be careful. Noncho Vodenicharov believes the author of the letter may not be psychologically sound, but he still alerted the police over the note.
A manager of a branch of Hebros Bank in Sofia will face court for not observing the law for measures curbing money laundering. Branch manager Krassimir Boyanov did not report to the Financial Intelligence Agency for a money transaction from one bank acco
Five Bulgarian mayors had been murdered since 1990, Bulgaria's Interior Minister Rumen Petkov said Friday.
Four Bulgarians have been jailed for their part in a USD 1.6 M scam that used skimming machines in Sydney ATMs to drain Australian bank accounts, the Border Mail newspaper reported.
The European Court of Human Rights decided that Bulgaria is to pay a total of EUR 6,000 to Erdzhan Rashid, who has served three prison terms. Rashid, dubbed Roko, sued Bulgaria for causing him non-material damages at the time of his arrest on April 14, 1
Two Bulgarian citizens were found dead in a garage in the Danube River town of Russe. The bodies of a45-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman were discovered in a car, parked in a garage, which was locked form the inside.
A money truck loaded with cash for pensions was burgled in plain daylight in Bulgaria's eastern village of Roza on Wednesday. The two masked men that attacked the truck took all the BGN 40,000 that were inside and sped off in another car.
A Macedonian, posing for a Bulgarian, has been arrested after a series of burglaries in seven cantons in Switzerland, local press reported.
The district court in the Danube city of Russe has launched a trial in a case of misusing EU funs and real estate scamming. Julian Spasov, his father Alexander and two of their friends are indicted of embezzling EUR 20,000 from EU funds and acquiring luc
Four Bulgarians are suspected to be responsible for an illegal credit card manufacturing factory in Vancouver, Canada, local media reported.
A powerful explosion awoke the citizens of a Sofia southern district early on Tuesday morning.
The killed mayor of the small Bulgarian town Elin Pelin was shot with a Makarov pistol, the prosecutor on the case said. Yanko Yankov had been shot with a Makarov pistol in the 9x18M calibre, the ballistic expertise showed.
The poor technical condition of the heavy load truck caused the tragic bus crash near the Bulgarian town Byala, the latest expertise revealed.
Sofia City Court has adjourned once again the hearing in a malfeasance case against Stefan Sofianski, admitting his obligations to attend the opening plenary session of the European Parliament. The former mayor of Sofia was sent to Strasbourg as MEP on t
A mass for the victims of the heavy crash near the town of Byala will be served Monday, forty days after the tragedy.
The district mayor of Bulgaria's Varna at the seaside has been beaten up in a quarrel that erupted over a parking lot. Petar Kandilarov received several punches to the face, after he exchanged words with the owner of a Lada car over a parking place.
??n 18-year-old man of Roma descent has alerted the police in Bulgaria's southern city of Haskovo that he had been kidnapped by his own in-laws. Stoyan Donchev wanted to divorce his wife Yordanka, 22, because he had caught her in bed with a 80-year-old m
A woman has suffered 40% burns to her body after a rakia-brewing related incident. The 29-year-old was helping her husband distill the high-concentration drink, when she slipped and fell in a cauldron, full of boiling marc.
A man was killed in Bulgaria's southeastern town of Razlog after a drunken brawl, Darik News revealed. A woman called the local police to report that her husband had stabbed a man after a quarrel in their house.
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