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The budget deficit in the "State Government" institutional sector for 2022 is 4,859,000,000 leva, NSI reports. This is 2.9% of GDP.

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Europe Now candidate Jakov Milatovic (C) and the leaders of the ruling majority in Podgorica, Montenegro. Photo: EPA-EFE/BORIS PEJOVIC

The gross external debt at the end of January 2023 amounted to nearly 45.1 billion euros (49.9 percent of the estimated Gross Domestic Product - GDP), reports the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB).

This is almost EUR 3.963 billion (9.6 percent) more than at the end of January 2022 (over EUR 41.120 billion, 48.6 percent of GDP).

The death toll after a floor collapsed at a Hindu temple in India had risen to 35 on Friday, with rescue operations underway to find one person still missing, a local official told AFP.

Millions of dead and rotting fish have clogged a vast stretch of river near a remote town in the Australian outback as a searing heatwave sweeps through the region.

Videos posted to social media showed boats ploughing through a blanket of dead fish smothering the water, with the surface barely visible underneath.

Australian rangers have killed an invasive "monster" cane toad discovered in the wilds of a coastal park, a warty brown specimen as long as a human arm and weighing 2.7 kilograms.

The toad was spotted after a snake slithering across a track forced wildlife workers to stop as they were driving in Queensland's Conway National Park, the state government said.

Human Rights Watch has again drawn attention to the problem of air pollution in Bosnian cities. "Nine per cent of the country's deaths are due to air pollution and an estimated 3,300 people die prematurely every year as a result of exposure to ambient PM2.5 air pollution," an HRW report published on Monday says. 

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The institutional sector "State Government" reports a budget deficit of BGN 5.433 billion, which is 4.1% of Bulgaria's gross domestic product (GDP), according to preliminary data from the National Statistical Institute.

In 2022, the deficit was 4% of GDP, and in the last year before the start of the coronavirus pandemic (2019), a surplus of 2.1% of GDP was reported.