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Bulgaria opens a general honorary consulate in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov announced during a joint statement with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. This means that our Honorary Consul there becomes a General Honorary Consul. According to Borisov, this will facilitate both Bulgarian and Israeli citizens.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov arrived in Israel, where he will be on a two-day visit.

In Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Borisov will take part in a ceremony for the opening of a monument - a symbol for celebrating the Bulgarian contribution to the rescue of Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust, the press service of the Cabinet said.

When I said that I am going to Israel for an interview, a close Palestinian friend Yazan asked: "Haven't you heard of the BDS?"

The EUR 25k trophy of the Golden Stag International Festival was won by Inis Neziri of Albania, and it was handed by Luminita Dobrescu, the first singer of Romania who grabbed this trophy back in 1969, at the second edition of the festival.

The 1st Prize of the contest was won by Olivier Kaye (Belgium) and was handed by Gabriel Garko, a special guest of the festival.

Over 5,500 people have participated in the Sfatului Square of Brasov in the third night of the Golden Stag International Festival that was the witness of a remarkable sold-out performance by James Blunt, Horia Brenciu & HB Orchestra and Delia.

President Donald Trump has said he felt personally let down by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over his refusal to release an American evangelical pastor after the U.S. had helped a Turkish citizen detained in Israel.

Director of the 2018 Cerbul de Aur (The Golden Stag) Competitive International Music Festival Smaranda Vornicu said on Tuesday that there is a great public interest in this event, which will take place in Brasov August 29 - September 1, adding that some evenings are sold out.

The Romanian-Czech relations "are excellent nowadays, too, despite the several matters that have affected Europe - at least in the past hundred years - and I believe they will continue to be the same, regardless of the sensitive topics on the European agenda, that could be solved, always in the better way through dialogue and negotiations," says in an interview with AGERPRES, the ambassador of

Members of the self-styled anarchist group Rouvikonas scaled the gates of a Foreign Ministry building in Athens on Tuesday morning and left a bag containing a Palestinian flag and photographs of people killed in recent clashes with the Israeli army.

By Angel Krasimirov

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's president has criticised a planned visit by defence officials to Washington just as the country seeks bids to supply warplanes from the United States and several other countries.