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Eighteen people who have immigrated illegally from Afghanistan are found dead in an abandoned truck in Sofia City Province, Bulgaria. Thirty-five others are hospitalized. Four people have been arrested.
2023-02-17

A 2-seater Beechcraft plane violates the airspace of seven countries in Eastern Europe, and is intercepted by two Hungarian Air Force Gripen jets, two USAF F-16s and two Romanian Air Force F-16s before being abandoned at an airfield near Targovishte, Bulgaria.
2022-06-9

Forty-six people are killed and seven more are injured when a bus carrying Macedonian tourists returning from Istanbul crashes and catches fire near Bosnek, Pernik Province, Bulgaria.
2021-11-23

Bulgaria launches its COVID-19 Green Certificate which indicates that a person is either vaccinated, has tested negative, or has recovered from COVID-19. The certificate will be mandatory for all indoor activities beginning on October 21.
2021-10-19

Bulgaria reports 2,243 new infections, a new record of cases since the pandemic began.
2020-10-27

A court in Bulgaria sentences two men, a Lebanese Australian and a Lebanese Canadian, to life in prison "in absentia", for their roles in the suicide bombing of a bus in Burgas in 2012 that killed five Israeli tourists, the Bulgarian driver and the bomber. The whereabouts of the men is unknown and they are the subject of an Interpol red notice.
2020-09-21

Bulgarians vote to elect a new Prime Minister after the resignation of Boyko Borissov. Opinion polls predict a close contest between Borissov's centre-right GERB and the Socialist Party.
2017-03-26

CIA director David Petraeus makes an unofficial visit to Bulgaria, meeting the president and prime minister.
2012-06-7

ACTA loses further support in Europe as Bulgaria and the Netherlands join Poland and Germany in declining to ratify it due to privacy and human rights concerns.
2012-02-15

Voters in Bulgaria went to the polls for the second round of a presidential election with Rosen Plevneliev of Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria being elected. [http:--www.ajc.com-news-nation-world-bulgarian-conservative-ahead-in-1212834.html (AP via "Atlanta Journal-Constitution")]date=August 2019
2011-10-30