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Six Bulgarians Die in Heavy Road Accident Near Berlin
Six Bulgarian citizens - three men and three women were killed in a heavy road accident after a minibus and a truck collided near Berlin on Friday.
According to local media, the road accident occurred on a dry surface and in good visibility, private NOVA TV reports.
Another four Bulgarians were injured in the accident and have been transported to hospital.
Energy Watchdog Head Refuses to Resign Despite Pressure from Businesses
Bulgarian energy watchdog head has said he won't step down amid calls from employers' unions which have demanded his resignation over a hike in power prices for industrial consumers.
BGN 1,000 Fines Proposed for Trash Roamers
People roaming through garbage bins are threatened by a BGN 1,000 fine.
''There are two categories of homeless people - one is those seeking for food and the rest might have already become millionaires,'' said Todor Burgudzhiev, CEO of Ekopak Bulgaria.
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Bulgaria's Energy Watchdog to Go On with Power Price Hike
Energy regulator KEVR's head Ivan Ivanov has said that his agency will not backtrack on plans to increase power prices for industrial consumers by up to 20%.
Bulgarian Ambassador to US Says Was Subject to Hack Attack
Bulgaria's Ambassador to the US Elena Poptodorova has said her mail address has been "hacked" as part of a scam.
All her contacts have received messages wherein she asks for USD 2850, claiming to have been "mugged at gunpoint" in the Philippines.
Poptodorova, however, is in Washington DC and completely safe, as her Thursday interview with NOVA TV shows.
Mayor of Bulgaria's Botevgrad Arrested
Bulgarian police arrested Georgi Georgiev, Mayor of the town of Botevgrad on Monday morning, media reports say.
Georgiev was escorted out of his apartment and taken to the Sofia District Prosecutor's Office, according to the website Dnevnik.bg.
The reasons for his detention are not yet clear.
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Bulgaria's DPS Takes U-Turn on Majority System
The second-largest opposition party in Bulgaria, the DPS, has backtracked on its calls for a rewording of questions a forthcoming referendum on voting rules.
On Friday Lyutvi Mestan, who heads the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), told NOVA TV arguments favoring the introduction of a majority system were "irrational".
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Southern Bulgaria Submerged in Floods caused by Torrential Rains
Hundreds of houses have been affected and many hectares of crops have been destroyed by torrential rains and hailstorms in Bulgaria's south.
Belozem, a village near Bulgaria's second-biggest city Plovdiv, has been left almost completely sumberged in water, private national NOVA TV channel says.
Minister Foresees Likely Rise in Salaries of Bulgarian Teachers in Autumn
Bulgarian Education Minister Todor Tanev announced on Friday that the salaries of teachers were likely to increase in the autumn.
Tanev reminded that the increase in teachers' salaries always happened in the autumn and expressed hope that this year would not make a difference, he said in an interview for private NOVA TV.
US Senators Propose VISA-Free Regime for Bulgaria
Two US senators - Mark Kirk and Barbara Mikulski have introduced a bill that if approved will allow free movement of the citizens of Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and Croatia to the US. Allegedly, the initiative has been provoked by the pressure imposed on the senators by Polish community in Chicago, NOVA TV's correspondent Yasen Darakov reported.
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