Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader Tomislav Nikolić says that Serbia was coddling the EU with the first ruling in the case of murdered French football fan.
He added that the second court decision, which halved sentences to the men convicted of Brice Taton’s murder, was an expression of rage.
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71-year-old Scotsman, David Bell Bryson, who is suspected of the murder of an 11-old-boy in Northwestern Bulgaria, has been left behind bars permanently.
Bryson appeared before the Vidin District Court Friday, which ruled that the Scotsman has to be kept in the arrest for the duration of the investigation.
The man allegedly strangled to death the 11-year-old Stanislav Mirchev in the village of Lagoshevtsi close to the city of Vidin on the Danube River....
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Serbian President Boris Tadić laid a wreath at the monument to WWII victims inside the complex of the former concentration camp Staro sajmište in Belgrade.
The wreath-laying marked the beginning of the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.
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The number of Macedonian tourists who visited Bulgaria in December 2011 increased over two-fold compared to the same month of 2010, according to newly published data of the National Statistical Institute (NSI).
The increase in the number of visitors from Macedonia and from Serbia was the major factor which contributed to an increase by 1/5 to a total of 144 000 in the number of tourists visiting Bulgaria in December 2011.
At the same time, the number of tourists arriving from EU countries fell by 3% to about 78 000.
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Egypt has banned at least ten Americans and Europeans from leaving the country, reports from the north African country said on Friday.
Among the Europeans are three Serbians, according to news agencies.
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Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry will be issued a penalty statement for a personal data leak committed in connection with the end-October local and presidential elections, the Commission for Personal Data Protection (CPDP) announced on Friday.
In early October 2011, the Foreign Ministry published on its website about 37 000 permanent address registrations of Bulgarian voters residing abroad.
The expats were infuriated by the blunder, saying that it made them an easy target for theft and robbery and that they had to shell extra cash for insurance and security for their Bulgarian homes.
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Serbian Health Minister Zoran Stankovic stated on Friday that a group of Serbian doctors had examined Serb Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Šešelj.
“They will return to Belgrade on Friday and they will deliver their written report,” Stanković told reporters in the southern Serbian town of Prokuplje.
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Serbia's Novak Đoković reached the final of the Australian Open Grand Slam on Friday by defeating Scot Andy Murray.
The match played in Melbourne lasted five hours and ended in Đoković's 3-2 victory (6-3, 3-6, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 7-5 ).
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The sum of EUR 25.7 M will be added to the total cost of the construction of the second bridge linking Bulgaria and Romania across the Danube River, the Bulgarian Parliament agreed.
The bridge will finally be completed by the end of November 2012, Bulgaria's Transport Ministry announced in a statement Friday as the Bulgarian Parliament voted to approve the measures taken by Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski over the past two years in order to ensure the completion of the bridge between Bulgaria's Vidin and Romania's Calafat.
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Bulgaria's prime minister stands behind a controversial bill, which is expected to deal a heavy blow to legal metal scrap dealers, the opposition says.
'The Waste Management bill aims to benefit only one company in the trade with ferrous and non-ferrous metals – Nadin company," Petar Kurumbashev, Socialist MP, fumed , referring to a well established scrap dealer, linked to the purchased bankrupt Bulgarian Kremikovtzi steel giant.
According to Kurumbashev the bills on waste management and forests have one and the same mastermind – Prime Minister Boyko Borisov himself.
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The Serbian Cyrillic-based internet domain .srb was officially launched on Friday, with 235 websites have been registered in the first hour.
State Secretary for Digital Agenda Jasna Matić pointed out that the Cyrillic-based domain constitutes "a big step in the development of the internet in Serbia and contributes to strong integration of the internet in the citizens' everyday life".
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The Bulgarian government has announced it is going to provide a total of BGN 100 000 for the repair of the burned Orthodox Christian Cathedral in the ethnic Bulgarian-populated town of Bolgrad in Ukraine.
The Savior's Transfiguration Cathedral in Bolgrad, a spiritual center of the historical ethnic Bulgarian community in the southwest of Ukraine, burned down the night of January 26.
"Bulgaria's Consul in Odessa has already visited the Bolgrad cathedral, where the dome has been destroyed," Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said in Sofia Friday.
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Belgrade-based daily Danas writes that it learned that the EU-sponsored Belgrade-Priština dialogue will continue in the first week of February.
Agreements on Kosovo’s regional representation and on the beginning of the implementation of the integrated border management should be released then.
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Romanian police have launched an investigation against a Bulgarian citizen who tried to cross the Nadlac border crossing point by pushing a stolen car.
The 32-year-old man appeared at the border crossing point, pushing a VW Golf, and told the Romanian authorities that he was travelling in that peculiar manner because he had no driver's license, Bulgarian private TV channel bTV reported on Friday, citing Romanian media.
Asked to present the vehicle's documents, the Bulgarian citizen showed a certificate of registration, a temporary license plate ticket issued by the German authorities and a purchase contract signed between natural persons.
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Bulgaria's former Olympic weightlifting champion Galabin Boevski, who was detained in Brazil and charged with drug trafficking offenses, has fervently claimed innocence in a rare media appearance.
"The most important thing for me is that I am telling the truth. My conscience is clean....
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The UN claims that the Libyan civil war might have given militant groups like Boko Haram and al Qaeda an access to large weapons caches, Reuters has reported.
The report on the impact of the Libyan civil war on countries of the Sahel region that straddle the Sahara, including Nigeria, Niger and Chad, was prepared by a U.N. assessment team that met with officials from countries in the region.
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