Police and gendarmerie teams are guarding the homes and property of the people in Hitrino against possible looting.
According to the Interior Ministry press centre, the freight train tanks will be opened today, but this is a dangerous and difficult process. That is why people must obey police instructions and stay away from the incident perimeter. Official information will be released after 9 AM, when the meeting of the crisis headquarters will be over.
During the night the tanks were cooled and today they are to be drained, after which they will be returned to the rail track. Meanwhile the concrete pillars and the overhead lines must be repaired.
Bulgaria was officially designated among the EU countries at risk of migratory pressure, BNR’s correspondent in Brussels Anguelina Piskova reports, citing the European Commission’s first European Annual Asylum and Migration Report. The document is..
President Rumen Radev has vetoed some of the amendments to the Defence and Armed Forces Act of the Republic of Bulgaria adopted on 30 October this year, the presidential press service has announced. In his motives the president points out that..
On Wednesday, minimum temperatures will range from 4 to 9°C across the country, reaching around 2°C in Sofia. The wind will ease and fog will settle in lowland and basin areas. Later during the day, cloud cover will decrease to mostly sunny in many..
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Today, Sofia will host the fifth edition of the Global Women Leaders Forum. The event is organized by the Council of Women in Business in Bulgaria...
In an unprecedented move, the Bulgarian government approved the 2026 state budget draft at its meeting toda y without the agreement of employers’..
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