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A bear fatally attacked a man at Vitosha, a mountainous area just outside the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, authorities reported on Monday.

Investigations into the Uzbek money-laundering bank Octobank and Russian sanctions evasion schemes were attempted to be erased using fake DMCA complaints filed on behalf of Procter & Gamble.

40-year-old Serazhudin Aktulaev, whose extradition to the United States was recently approved by a Cyprus court, is linked to several high-ranking officials from Chechnya and was involved in supplying equipment to Russia in violation of sanctions and in trading petroleum products.

Bulgaria’s former president and air force chief, Rumen Radev, is poised to win a general election on Sunday, pledging to fight against the widespread “mafia state” that he claims is destabilizing the EU’s poorest country.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bucharest (Romania) conducted searches on Wednesday as part of an investigation into potential fraud related to two projects for the production of lithium-ion battery units and prefabricated metal modular structures, each valued at approximately €10 million and co-funded by the EU.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Berlin and Cologne and Prague are spearheading an EU-wide operation against a suspected criminal organization, thought to have orchestrated cross-border VAT fraud schemes, resulting in estimated tax damage of over €103 million through the sale of luxury cars.

America’s ambassadors in Europe are focusing their charm offensive on one individual: President Donald Trump.

Back in 2018, Dmitry Levin — then a senior executive at Otkritie Bank and now a vice president at Gazprombank — was planning to purchase a commercial bank in Bulgaria.

Lukoil (LKOH.MM), has declared force majeure at Iraq’s giant West Qurna-2 oilfield, four sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday, after Western sanctions on the Russian oil major hindered its operations.

Ever since the summer of 2020, when German payments giant Wirecard collapsed after failing to account for €1.9 billion in missing assets, its former COO Jan Marsalek has been a wanted man.

The arrest in Bulgaria of Igor Grechushkin — whose ship carried chemicals to Lebanon that exploded in 2020 — is viewed as a sign that a long stalled investigation might finally get results.

Igor Grechushkin, who leased the ship that transported chemicals to Lebanon and later exploded, was arrested in Bulgaria after arriving on a flight from Cyprus.

A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday.

Ukraine's bid to join NATO will likely be put on hold until the war with Russia has concluded.

Authorities are convinced that the piece is an authentic, previously undocumented creation by the famous artist from 1949

Andrea Ivanova, known worldwide for her record-setting lips, is now aiming for the title of having the largest cheekbones globally

Andrea Ivanova shared that she has undergone close to 32 various procedures, spending nearly $9,000, in her quest to resemble a real-life Bratz doll, and she has no intention of stopping anytime soon

Russia has launched a new offensive in its conflict with Ukraine by choosing to cut off gas supplies to two EU countries that strongly support Kyiv

Mack Rutherford's adventure will see him traveling through 52 countries across five continents, crossing the equator twice to meet Guinness World Records criteria

"I believed that death had come for me," Albanian truck driver Zef Lufi shared with the Associated Press following his rescue

At the crash site, Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov informed reporters that he had "never witnessed anything more horrifying" in his life

Last month, American soldiers with weapons ready mistakenly conducted a raid on a sunflower oil factory in Bulgaria during a failed military exercise

Human bones from a Bulgarian cave suggest our species arrived in Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought, sharing the continent much longer with Neanderthals.