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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a media conference ahead of a NATO summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Western leaders are arriving in Brussels for Thursday's summits taking place at NATO and EU headquarters where they will seek to highlight their sense of unity in the face of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Live updates: Bulgarians protest Russia’s war in Ukraine

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin meets Finland's Minister of Defense Antti Kaikkonen, at the Pentagon, Wednesday, March 9, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Pentagon chief Austin leaves for NATO meeting in Europe as war continues in Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz after their talks at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 18, 2022. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

NATO sends ships, jets east as Ireland rejects Russia drills

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

This image made from video provided by Nova TV shows emergency service workers beside a burnt-out bus in Bosnek, Bulgaria, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. A bus crash in western Bulgaria early Tuesday has killed dozens of people, authorities said. (Nova TV via AP)

Bus crashes, catches fire in Bulgaria; at least 45 dead

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In this file photo, U.S. Army soldiers with 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), fire an M777 howitzer at Kara Soar Base, Iraq. In March 2021 the 4th Battalion, 319th Artillery Regiment, part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, will train in France with French-made anti-tank rounds. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Army admits soldiers mistakenly raided Bulgarian olive oil factory during training drill

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Lawyer Nikola Kovacevic, who represented 17 refugees, talkx to Hamid Ahmadi from Germany through an interpreter, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Hamid Ahmadi still can feel the cold of the February night when Serbian police left him and two dozen other refugees in a forest. Groups of refugees and economic migrants trying to reach Western Europe regularly give accounts of police forcibly pushing them back across borders in the Balkans. Pushbacks are illegal, and authorities routinely deny that their agencies carry out such collective expulsions, which are difficult to prove and mostly go unpunished. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Refugees win rare victory in landmark Serbia pushback ruling

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

Ismail Atipov holds his son as they take part in a mass circumcision ceremony in the village of Ribnovo, Bulgaria, Sunday, April 11, 2021. Despite the dangers associated with COVID-19 and government calls to avoid large gatherings, Hundreds of people flocked to the tiny village of Ribnovo in southwestern Bulgaria for a four-day festival of feasting, music and the ritual of circumcision which is considered by Muslims a religious duty and essential part of a man's identity. (AP Photo/Jordan Simeonov)

Bulgarian Muslims hold circumcision festival despite virus

By JORDAN SIMEONOV - Associated Press

A cyclist passes by election poster of two rival parties in capital Sofia, Bulgaria on Saturday, April 3, 2021. After months of nationwide anti-government protests over corruption, stalled reforms and a stagnating economy in the EU's poorest member state, Bulgarians are gearing up for a parliamentary election in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Exit polls point to first place for Bulgarian leader’s party

By VESELIN TOSHKOV - Associated Press

Italy's Andrea Belotti celebrates his first goal during the World Cup 2022 Group C qualifying soccer match between Bulgaria and Italy at Vassil Levski stadium, in Sofia, Sunday, March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/ Tony Uzunov)

Italy extends perfect qualifying streak with win in Bulgaria

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Bulgaria to expel 2 Russian diplomats accused of espionage

By VESELIN TOSHKOV - Associated Press

This image released by Amazon Studios shows Maria Bakalova, left, and Sacha Baron Cohen in a scene from &quot;Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.&quot; The film was nominated for a Golden Globe for best musical/comedy.(Amazon Studios via AP)

Breakout ‘Borat’ star Maria Bakalova conquers Hollywood

By JOCELYN NOVECK - Associated Press

Hezbollah and Europe illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Europe must unite against Hezbollah

By Tsvetan Tsvetanov

In this photo taken on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021 A Romanian gendarme leaves after getting a COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Bucharest, Romania. Across the Balkans and the rest of the nations in the southeastern corner of Europe, a vaccination campaign against the coronavirus is overshadowed by heated political debates or conspiracy theories that threaten to thwart the process. In countries like the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania and Bulgaria, skeptics have ranged from former presidents to top athletes and doctors. Nations that once routinely went through mass inoculations under Communist leaders are deeply split over whether to take the vaccines at all. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Vaccine skepticism hurts East European anti-virus efforts

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

FILE- In this Friday Dec. 18, 2020, file photo, A traveller wearing a face mask checks the flight departures at Schiphol Airport, near Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Netherlands is banning flights from the United Kingdom for the rest of the year in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of the COVID-19 virus in Britain does not reach its shores. The ban came into effect Sunday morning Dec. 20, 2020, and the government said it was reacting to tougher measures imposed in and around London on Saturday. The Netherlands said it will assess &quot;with other EU nations the possibilities to contain the import of the virus from the United Kingdom.&quot; (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, FILE)

More EU nations ban travel from UK, fearing virus variant

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

Bulgaria to expel Russian diplomat suspected of spying

By VESELIN TOSHKOV - Associated Press

North Macedonia: PM criticizes Bulgaria’s veto of EU talks

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES - Associated Press

Bulgaria is latest block in North Macedonia’s bid to join EU

By VESELIN TOSKOV - Associated Press

List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Bulgaria signs 5G deal with US excluding Chinese firms

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List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press