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 Rakhmat Akilov, who has confessed to driving a truck that killed five people in an attack in Sweden's capital Stockholm, will stand trial in February, the main prosecutor in the case said on Monday, according to Reuters. 

European Union leaders appealed for unity in a last-ditch effort to break their deadlock on sharing out refugees by June, telling reluctant eastern states they could otherwise be outvoted on a dispute that has shaken the bloc's foundations.

Members of several European royal houses, as well as royals from as far away as Bahrain and Japan, are set to gather in Bucharest at the end of the week to attend the funeral of Romania's last monarch, King Michael I, who died last week aged 96.

The king died at his modest residence in the village of Aubonne , in Switzerland, after over a year of battling cancer.

Swedish police on Monday said they are probing an attempted arson against a Jewish chapel after a similar attack against a synagogue, which came in the wake of the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

The 2017 Nobel laureates will be presented with their awards by the King of Sweden during a ceremony in Stockholm today.

Bulgaria is 51st in prosperity in the world, shows this year's edition of Legatum Prosperity Index. It is based on the results in 9 areas surveyed in 149 countries around the world, where 96% of mankind lives and are responsible for 99% of the world's gross domestic product.

This puts our country in front of South Africa, but behind the Republic of Suriname.

Bulgaria is one of the countries in the EU with the oldest aircraft in civil aviation, according to data from the Eurostat statistical office for 2015.

The Danish Institute in Athens is hosting a free screening of the 1910 landmark silent film "The Abyss" by Urban Gad, starring Asta Nielsen in a stunningly natural performance that helped earn the Danish actress international stardom - though it also got the film banned in Norway and Sweden, where it was considered too risque.

A large group of people have been detained in Sweden after police launched an offensive against a begging ring in the south of the country which allegedly transported Bulgarian citizens to Sweden in order to beg, then took their earnings, The Local reports.

According to him, this is no obstacle to strengthen mutual cooperation.

"There are no talks about Serbia joining NATO and the reason is that Serbia has clearly stated that they don't want membership in NATO. And NATO fully respects that decision of Serbia," Stoltenberg said in response to a question posed by a Serbian reporter during a news conference on Monday.