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Deputy PM Ekaterina Zaharieva is in Slovenia for the Bled Strategic Forum. The list of attending officials includes senior representatives of EU, the United Nations and the United States of America.

Exiled Bulgarian banker Tsvetan Vassilev, whose extradition from Serbia is sought by the authorities in Sofia, told BIRN that moves to nationalize the arms firm Dunarit - which has been linked to his former business empire - would be a crime.

Residents of the Strelbishte district of Sofia continue to fight the garden between "Akad. Ivan Evstatiev Geshov" Blvd. and "Bulgaria" Blvd. to remain a green area, not as a company envisages - a 43-storey building.

Today, movement on boulevard Prague in the capital Sofia is fully restored. Public transport lines in the area are also on their regular schedule, bTV reported.

Expansion of the Trakia highway with additional lane from Sofia to Plovdiv is contemplated by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

"I think how the Toll system could work on the Trakia highway to Plovdiv, we should make it 6 lanes," he told in Varna, where he participates in the tenth edition of the Summer University of the Youth GERB, FOCUS News Agency report.

The teams of the Emergency Help and Prevention Directorate received 20 signals of fallen branches of trees because of the strong storm in Sofia reported Sofia Municipality.

The teams respond to the signals from the fire station in Sofia.

Bulgaria will do everything possible to help Montenegro join the European Union after the country completes all necessary reforms, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said Friday.

After the rehabilitation of the railway line Plovdiv - Burgas there will be reduction of the travel time between the two cities by 40 minutes. This was announced today by the Deputy Minister of Transport Velik Zanchev on the opening of the Straldzha-Tserkovski railway section.

The Bulgarian Presidency's committee on naming objects of national significance and communities has refused to back a call to rename the Musala peak, the highest point in the country, after Bulgaria's patron saint.

The Bulgaria national football team has achieved a historic victory over its on of its biggest rivals in the last 25 years - Sweden. The Lions struck three times the Scandinavians in World Cup qualification for World Cup 2018 in Russia, winning 3:2, recording one of the sweetest victories for this century.