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Contracts have been signed for BGN 9.3 million investments in fish processing enterprises under the Marine and Fishermen Program. This was reported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
 

Over 100 movies and one documentary have been included in the programme of CineLibri 2016.

The second edition of the cinema-literary festival is organised by the Colibri Publishing House, and will show 10 national and one world premiere from October 5-10 in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Lovech, Vratsa, Vidin, Targovishte and Sliven.

Twelve new containers for old clothes and textile items have been placed in the streets of Sofia this week as part of a nationwide campaign launched by the Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC).

"This is an idea we've borrowed from our partners in Germany, Austria and Switzerland," BRC Chairman Hristo Grigorov has told public radio broadcaster BNR.

Bulgarian penalty legislation concerning imprisoned female criminals should be reformed to fit international standards for the protection of human rights, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC), announced on Tuesday.

The BHC's new report, Women in Prison, shows that prisons in Bulgaria provide equal treatment for men and women, which leads to discrimination of imprisoned women.

The wife of a mayoral candidate in the village of Kamen, Southern Bulgaria, has been injured in a blast at the candidate's home, media reports suggest.

The device was reportedly attached to a stone and thrown into the house of Yordan Todorov on Thursday evening.

An attempt at taking a selfie was the likely reason for a car crash that claimed the lives of two teenagers, one of the survivors has said.

Four people were traveling in a car which tumbled over near the town of Sliven on Sunday. A 14-year-old girl and a 18-year-old boy, both in the back seats, died in the incident, while the driver, 18, is in hospital with a serious head injury.

Swiss Ambassador to Bulgaria Denis Knobel and Bulgarian Social Minister Ivaylo Kalfin signed agreements with the municipalities of Burgas, Ruse and Sliven that will be aimed at stimulating the social inclusion of Roma and other vulnerable ethnic groups.

Japanese manufacturer of car cabling systems Yazaki will build a third plant in Bulgaria, according to Sinan Kar, General Manager of Yazaki Bulgaria.

Kar told Capital Daily that the new plant of the company would be located in the central part of the country, adding that the exact location of the unit was yet to be selected.

Balkan troops train with US Marines

The Platinum Lion 2015 joint exercise gathered hundreds of troops from Serbia, Romania and host nation Bulgaria.

A Romanian soldier accepts an award from a US Marine during the Platinum Lion training exercise that ended January 23rd in Bulgaria. [marines.mil]

An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale was registered Thursday morning in the region of Tvarditsa, central Bulgaria, according to seismologists at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS).