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At least 13 police officers died in a Taliban attack on a police headquarters in the province of Baglan, the France press reported. The attack, started at noon in Pugli Homer, has 35 injured police officers and 20 injured civilians, a spokesman for the interior ministry said in a statement.

Turkey is the NATO ally most exposed to violence and turmoil stemming from the Middle East and suffered a series of terrorist attacks, the NATO chief has stressed, vowing that the 29-nation alliance is committed to the defense of Turkey a day before his visit to the Turkish capital.

The Swedish owner of Electrolux Satu Mare threatens, through the voice of the workers who did not join the strike, to relocate its production to Poland, informs a release issued by president of the "Cartel ALFA" National Trade Union Confederation Bogdan Hossu on Friday. The reaction of the union leader comes after 100 non-striking employees sent an open letter to their striking fellows.

Deputy Minister of Defence Atanas Zapryanov and Deputy Chief of Defence Lieutenant General Dimitar Iliev will take part in today's send-off ceremony of the 38th contingent of the Armed Forces that will participate in NATO's Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, learned BulgarianMilitary.com.

Bulgaria should receive more funding from Brussels to protect its border, Bavaria's Minister President Markus Söder said at a round table on "Protection of the EU's external border and migration policies of the Republic of Bulgaria," Focus News Agency reports.

In a surprise move, main opposition New Democracy leader has announced that when Parliament re-opens after the Easter break he will table a bill to block the lowering of the tax-free threshold, which the government passed into law in June, 2017, and which is due to take effect on 1 January, 2020.

In a post on Twitter, the EU official in charge of neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations said that EU enlargement was "an ambitious project based on joint efforts and a common vision: to re-unite the European continent and to safeguard peace, prosperity and security for all EU citizens."

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras marked May Day with a message saying that his leftist government was working hard to ease the impact of austerity policies introduced under Greece's bailout programs.

The Together for Europe Summit in Warsaw, involving Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the leaders of all member states, adopted since 2004 in the EU, has begun.

The occasion for the summit, initiated by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiec, is the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the great enlargement of the European Union.

Wednesday, May 1, is International Workers' Day. And that means a series of rallies and limited transport options due to strikes.