Sofia

A woman found a hand grenade in a house in Sofia's Strelbishte residential district, reports the Interior Ministry.

She notified the police who sealed off the area.

This is the second case in two days of such discovery in Sofia. On Wednesday a woman found a hand grenade at her apartment door in a residential building in the Mladost district.

Bulgaria and Russia's energy ministers are to discuss South Stream over the telephone on Friday, Bulgarian officials say.

The phone call has been proposed by Economy Minister Bozhidar Lukarski and Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova, according to Lukarski's Chief of Staff Filip Kirev.

Police have sealed off the region around an apartment block in Mladost district in Sofia, Bulgaria, after a hand grenade was found in the building, officials say.

The block has already been evacuated, according to Focus News Agency.

A resident of the building claims to have come across the grenade in front of her door.

BELGRADE - Bulgaria has no intention of stopping the South Stream project, and there will be a meeting between the Russian and Bulgarian ministers of energy in Moscow on Friday to discuss the project, Bulgaria's Minister of Economy Bozidar Lukarski has said in Belgrade.

Sofia and Belgrade will step up efforts to build the interconnector pipeline linking the two gas grids, ministers from the two countries have announced.

Bulgaria "has no intention" of abandoning South Stream

BELGRADE -- Bulgaria has no intention of stopping the South Stream project, Bulgaria's Minister of Economy Bozidar Lukarski has said in Belgrade.

There will be a meeting between the Russian and Bulgarian ministers of energy in Moscow on Friday to discuss the project, he added.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic met with Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister for Coalition Policy and Public Administration Rumiana Bacharova on Tuesday to discuss ways of improving the economic relatins between the two countries, and especially their trade.

Balkan music star Goran Bregovic and his Weddings and Funeral Orchestra will perform in a concert on Friday at the Arena Armeec in Sofia.

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Eighteen Bulgarian cities have "extremely polluted" air in the past several days, shows data of the Executive Environment Agency, reports Nova TV.

The fine dust particles in the air of Sofia, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Pleven, Pernik, Burgas and Dimitrovgrad exceed the norms three-four times.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is set to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday.

Borisov, who headed the government for a second term in October, is on an official visit to Berlin at the invitation of his German counterpart.

The abandoned South Stream gas pipeline and EU funding is due to top the two leaders' agenda.