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After UNESCO Director Irina Bokova came only fifth in the fourth ballot for a new UN Secretary-General, reports are rife that Bulgaria may replace her with the European Commission Vice-President, Kristalina Georgieva.

However, Bulgaria's deputy-premier and Minister of Interior, Rumyana Bachvarova, dismissed this on Monday.

NEW YORK - A fourth round of the vote to select the new UN secretary-general was held at the UN headquarters in New York Friday, with former Portuguese PM Antonio Guterres still leading the race as Serbia's candidate Vuk Jeremic remains in third position, but with two more encourage votes than in the previous round.

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras will hope to assuage the discontent among the economically battered Greek public and galvanise his party supporters during his speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair, by using his administration’s successful results of the TV licence tenders, which brought in 246 million Euros to the state coffers.

Irina Bokova, Bulgaria's candidate for Secretary General of the UN, remained fifth after today's straw poll of the Security Council in New York.

Leaders of the EU's southern countries taking part in an Athens summit on Friday sought to forge a common strategy ahead of next weeks informal gathering of European leaders in Bratislava to discuss the bloc's future in the aftermath of Brexit.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called for policies to foster growth as he prepared to host a summit of southern European states on Friday, saying they needed to have a bigger say in the future of Europe.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is hoping that Friday's so-called EUMed summit in Athens, which is due to see the leaders of Greece, France, Italy, Portugal, Malta and Cyprus discuss economic policy, migration and security, will lead to a strengthening of ties between the Southersn European countries ahead of the European Union leaders' summit Bratislava, Slovakia, next Friday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has refused to step back from her migrant policy despite frustrations at her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party's humiliating loss in a regional vote, instead praising the European Union's recent deal with Turkey.

The Bulgarian men's national football team finished fourth at this year's edition of the Kirin Cup tournament after suffering two heavy defeats.

In the semifinal played on Friday, Bulgaria lost to hosts Japan with 2:7. In the third-place match played on Tuesday, Bulgaria was defeated by Denmark with 0:4

With the Euro2016 competition in France just 3 days away, the official website of UEFA posted an article titled ‘Ten great EURO moments: Charsiteas’s header’. The piece explains why it is one the great moments of a European football championship. The site spoke to the protagonists of that moment, which is still considered by most sport pundits as one the greatest upsets in any sports.