Bulgaria News

UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw has refused an appeal for a pardon by jailed football fan Michael Shields.

Rachev was allegedly shot, the police were informed of the incident at 12:31 pm Friday.

Among those who walked free from jail last month to campaign as candidates were the Galevi brothers - " a pair who were facing charges of racketeering and running a notorious organised crime gang.

The justice secretary, Jack Straw , today turned down an appeal for a pardon by Michael Shields, the Liverpool football fan who was jailed in Bulgaria for the attempted murder of a barman.

Bulgaria does not need a bailout aid agreement with the International Monetary Fund , local press reported on July 1, citing the Finance Minister Plamen Oresharski.

Bulgarian officials say 142 people running for parliamentary elections were alleged agents of the secret police while the communist regime was in place.

Some 130 kids have been poisoned by the food at a sea restaurant in the Sveti Vlas resort.

The fate of the dying steel mill "Kremikotvtzi" is to be decided by the Sofia City Court.

With less than a week before the general elections, pollsters in Bulgaria predict GERB will have a narrow win over BSP.

Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv now has a confirmed swin flu case. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency A 14-year-old boy is the first registered swine flu - A case in Bulgaria's second largest city, Plovdiv.

The arson was done, despite the presence of guards in the parking lot of the company that owned the vehicles.

A car with a man and a woman inside was set on fire by three unknown persons in Bulgaria's capital of Sofia on Friday night, the police reports.

Bulgarian Michael Jackson fans, shocked and saddened like the rest of the world, are mourning his death in Sofia.

June 26. - Trade unionists in Sofia stage a protest rally over job losses, corruption and crime just over a week before Bulgaria goes to the polls.

The former head of Sofia heating utility Valentin Dimitrov has seen the trial against him being postponed a number of times since the launch of the first of a number of cases at the beginning of last year.

Alleged crime boss Zlatomir Ivanov aka Baretata could leave jail as early as Friday over obtaining immunity due to official involvement in the July 5 general elections.

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Serbia, citing a 1960 bilateral agreement, has filed a formal request to Bulgaria for the extradition of Agim Ceku, the former Kosovo prime minister arrested at the Macedonian Bulgarian border because of an Interpol warrant issued at the request of Belgrade that wants him on war crimes charges.

The arrest of Agim Ceku, Kosovo's former prime minister, by Bulgarian police stoked tensions in the region and caused embarrassment for Sofia, which recognises Kosovo despite misgivings about its declaration of independence last year, the Financial Times commented in its latest edition.

Recently resigned deputy interior minister Raif Moustafa, who is accused of offering a 100 000 leva bribe to another public official, was more than just a middleman in the corrupt scheme, Sofia prosecutor Nikolai Kokinov told a June 23 2009 news conference.