SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 10 (UPI) -- Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev told a task team Friday to improve a garbage collection system that is threatening public health in the capital Sofia.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The end of the European gas crisis means state-owned gas firm Bulgargaz can file compensation claims, but also speaks of the need for diversity, officials say.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Bulgaria is experiencing its first economic crisis as a capitalist country, Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said Thursday.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The prime minister of Bulgaria spent 40 minutes stuck on a ski lift Wednesday with a member of his cabinet, local officials and a gaggle of reporters.

ATHENS, Greece, March 15 (UPI) -- Russia, Bulgaria and Greece signed an agreement to build an oil pipeline to link the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea, reports said.

TRIPOLI, Libya, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a doctor to death for deliberately infecting 426 children with HIV, Bulgaria's BTA news agency said.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 1 (UPI) -- Bulgarian officials say they have no information about Romanian reports that Sofia's efforts to join the European Union would be delayed by a year. Bulgaria is scheduled to join the EU on Jan 1, and a key European Commission report on steps Sofia has take

BUCHAREST, Romania, April 21 (UPI) -- The swollen Danube River has receded slightly in Romania and Bulgaria, with foreign and domestic aid being shipped to the flooded regions.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 18 (UPI) -- Bulgaria's top diplomat dismissed allegations his country is slow in judiciary reforms and claimed Sofia is able to meet European standards to join the EU next year. Bulgarian Foreign Minister Sergey Stanishev disagreed with EU officials' statements that