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Police arrested a 27-year-old man in northeastern Attica on Wednesday for selling flares and firecrackers on social media.

After receiving a tip, officers found that the suspect maintained a profile on a social media platform which he used to illicitly sell the explosives.

A 33-year-old man was injured in the ribs by the firecracker and ended up bleeding uncontrollably

Convoys with hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors arrived at European Union headquarters, bent on getting their complaints about excessive costs, rules and bureaucracy heard and fixed by EU leaders at a summit Thursday.

The onset of the New Year has ushered in a worrying surge in pollution across Bulgaria. Reports from the European Air Quality Index have flagged 11 cities in the country, including Sofia, for hazardous levels of particulate matter, double the permissible limits.

Forty-one construction workers emerged dazed and smiling late Tuesday from a collapsed tunnel where they had been stranded the last 17 days — a happy ending to an ordeal that had gripped India and involved a massive rescue operation that overcame several setbacks.

Several hooligans were arrested, who threw firecrackers at the police and demolished shop windows.
Mostly younger men and teenagers pelted the police patrol with firecrackers, and several containers were also set on fire. During the intervention, the police confiscated several prepared Molotov cocktails.

A 61-year-old man arrested as the prime suspect behind several bombs planted outside the freemasons' Grand Lodge of Greece in central Athens has also been charged with additional bomb and arsonist attacks in and around the Greek capital, the Hellenic Police announced on Wednesday.

Police are investigating an attack with a homemade explosive device made of firecrackers and flammable liquid outside a home in the coastal suburb of Alimos south of Athens.

The explosion caused minor damage to the property and a car parked in the vicinity.

No injuries were reported. 

This winter, FOUR PAWS, the international animal protection organization that helps animals exposed to direct human influence, has launched a social and media campaign, "Beautiful for us is terrifying to them," calling for a responsible celebration of the holidays.

An end to the smell of gunpowder and remnants of fireworks all over Sofia after mass celebrations, accompanied by endless blasts of firecrackers, bombs and fireworks, such as the ones at New Year's, reports BGNES.

Today, the Chairman of the Sofia Municipal Council Georgi Georgiev presented changes that affect the use of pyrotechnic devices on the territory of Sofia Municipality.