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    <text>Bulgaria's parliament approves legal amendments giving a state-appointed manager expanded authority over Lukoil's refinery in Burgas, including operational control and the power to sell shares, to prevent a shutdown when U.S. sanctions on the refinery's Russian owner take effect. </text>
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    <slug>/feed/2025/09/18/bulgarian-prime-minister-rosen-zhelyazkov-s-government-survives-their-fifth-vote-of-no-confidence-this-year-over-alleged</slug>
    <text>Bulgarian prime minister Rosen Zhelyazkov's government survives their fifth vote of no-confidence this year over alleged failures to reform the justice and security sectors, with 133 lawmakers opposing and 101 supporting the motion. </text>
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    <slug>/feed/2023/08/26/ukraine-s-foreign-ministry-expresses-opposition-to-a-continuation-of-european-union-import-restrictions-on-its-grain-aft</slug>
    <text>Ukraine’s foreign ministry expresses opposition to a continuation of European Union import restrictions on its grain after member states including Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary supported an extension. </text>
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      <text>Bulgaria temporarily bans the import of grain from Ukraine, except for those in transit, following similar decisions by Poland and Hungary on 15 April and Slovakia on 17 April. (</text>
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    <text>Bulgaria temporarily bans the import of grain from Ukraine, except for those in transit, following similar decisions made by Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia. </text>
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    <date>2020-09-21</date>
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    <keywords>Bulgaria</keywords>
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    <slug>/feed/2020/09/21/a-court-in-bulgaria-sentences-two-men-a-lebanese-australian-and-a-lebanese-canadian-to-life-in-prison-in-absentia-f</slug>
    <text>A court in Bulgaria sentences two men, a Lebanese Australian and a Lebanese Canadian, to life in prison &quot;in absentia&quot;, 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. </text>
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    <date>2019-12-9</date>
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    <slug>/feed/2019/12/9/volodymyr-zelensky-vladimir-putin-emmanuel-macron-and-angela-merkel-meet-in-paris-for-ukraine-peace-talks-it-is-the-f</slug>
    <text>Volodymyr Zelensky, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel meet in Paris for Ukraine peace talks. It is the first time Putin and Zelensky meet and the first such four-way leaders' meeting since 2016. </text>
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    <date>2018-03-25</date>
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    <keywords>Bulgaria</keywords>
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    <slug>/feed/2018/03/25/an-anomalous-weather-event-caused-due-to-dust-from-a-sandstorm-in-the-sahara-leads-to-an-orange-snow-blanketing-several</slug>
    <text>An anomalous weather event caused due to dust from a sandstorm in the Sahara, leads to an orange snow blanketing several Eastern European countries, including Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Russia. This weather event happens roughly every five years; a similar event occurred in Siberia in 2007. </text>
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    <date>2016-03-20</date>
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    <keywords>Bulgaria</keywords>
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    <slug>/feed/2016/03/20/thirteen-are-killed-and-34-others-injured-after-a-bus-carrying-erasmus-exchange-students-returning-from-the-renowned-fal</slug>
    <text>Thirteen are killed and 34 others injured after a bus carrying Erasmus exchange students returning from the renowned Falles fireworks festival in Valencia, crashes near Freginals, Spain. The regional government of Catalonia said in a statement that, &quot;... according to the latest data, the ill-fated bus had students from Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, Japan, Ukraine, Holland, Belgium, France, Palestine, Turkey, (and) Greece.&quot; </text>
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    <date>2014-06-8</date>
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    <keywords>Bulgaria</keywords>
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    <slug>/feed/2014/06/8/the-government-of-bulgaria-orders-a-halt-to-construction-work-on-the-gazprom-led-south-stream-pipeline-project-planned-t</slug>
    <text>The Government of Bulgaria orders a halt to construction work on the Gazprom-led South Stream pipeline project planned to bypass Ukraine as a transit country into Europe. </text>
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    <date>2014-04-17</date>
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    <slug>/feed/2014/04/17/russia-and-ukraine-together-with-the-united-states-and-the-european-union-sit-down-for-emergency-talks-in-geneva-all-fo</slug>
    <text>Russia and Ukraine together with the United States and the European Union sit down for emergency talks in Geneva. All four agree that &quot;illegal military formations in Ukraine&quot; must be dissolved, and that everyone occupying buildings must be disarmed and leave them. There would be an amnesty for all anti-government protesters under the agreement. </text>
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  <slug>/feed/2026/04/22/two-people-are-killed-and-16-others-are-injured-when-a-passenger-bus-carrying-ukrainian-citizens-strikes-a-group-of-peop</slug>
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    <name>Ukrainska Pravda</name>
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  <text>Two people are killed and 16 others are injured when a passenger bus carrying Ukrainian citizens strikes a group of people and crashes into a ditch in Burgas, Bulgaria. </text>
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