VESELIN TOSHKOV

Associated Press
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Center-right candidate leads in presidential vote

The ruling center-right party's candidate has a comfortable lead in Bulgaria's presidential race before next weekend's run-off, suggesting voter support for painful economic reforms.

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Bulgaria opening museum of socialist art

Giant statues of Soviet dictators Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin. Paintings of enthusiastic socialist laborers. A huge red star that graced Communist Party headquarters.

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Bulgaria: Border guards against cherry thieves

Bulgarian forces with night-vision goggles appear to be winning an extraordinary fight over thieves seeking to make off with this year's lucrative cherry harvest.

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Bulgaria's black market in blood is flourishing

Her 85-year-old husband needed immediate surgery but doctors told her to find blood for the operation herself. So Slavka Petrova swallowed her anguish and went to haggle on the black market outside the national blood clinic.

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Right wins Bulgaria vote on anti-corruption ticket

Bulgaria's conservative opposition won elections by a wide margin as voters punished the governing Socialists for failing to crack down on corruption, according to final results released Monday.

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Kosovo ex-prime minister released from detention

A Bulgarian court released Kosovo's former prime minister Thursday, two days after he was detained on an international arrest warrant issued by Serbia for alleged war crimes.

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Crisis forces Bulgaria to smell the roses

In a field outside this quiet village, Rumen Rumenov tosses a huge plastic bag filled with pink rose blossoms over his shoulder and loads it on a horse cart.

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Bulgaria ends gas rationing

Bulgaria's prime minister says gas rationing has been lifted and the country will seek compensation for losses due to the two-week halt in Russian natural gas deliveries.

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Bulgarian archaeologist Georgi Kitov dies at 65

Archaeologist Georgi Kitov — an expert on the treasure-rich Thracian culture of antiquity — died of a heart attack while excavating a temple in central Bulgaria considered to be one of his greatest discoveries, his family said Thursday. He was 65.

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Bulgarian archaeologists discover ancient chariot

Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,900-year-old well-preserved chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Thursday.

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Bulgaria army depot explodes near Sofia

A series of powerful explosions erupted Thursday at two army ammunition depots near Sofia, shattering windows in hundreds of buildings, spewing smoke and debris into the sky and forcing Bulgaria's main airport to shut down.

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Bulgaria pulls Olympic weightlifters for doping

Bulgaria's weightlifting federation will withdraw its team from the Beijing Games after 11 lifters tested positive for a steroid, the latest scandal to affect weightlifting ahead of the Summer Olympics.

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Cold Spell, Snow Grip Parts of Europe

A bitterly cold winter storm pummeled parts of Europe on Thursday, killing at least three sailors when a ship sank in rough seas, and piling up snow that stranded thousands at airports, on mountain roads and in remote villages.

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