Bulgarian socialists given mandate to form government

By -SawyerFrom The Sofia GlobeDeadlock and uncertainty continued to plague Bulgarian lawmakers in the week following an inconclusive snap parliamentary election as the socialists pursued an unorthodox coalition agreement with the nationalists, and ...

SOFIA — Bulgaria's largest party GERB declined yesterday to try to form a new government, opening the way for the rival Socialists to put together a technocrat administration and end a political impasse. Seeking to break the deadlock, President ...

Spain's Queen Sofia on Thursday presented the Mapfre Foundation's 2012 Social Awards to projects in Puerto Rico, Guatemala and Brazil and to a Spanish physician. The awards, each of which comes with 30,000 euros (around $39,000), are presented ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Litex Lovech coach Hristo Stoichkov was fined 7,000 levs ($4,600) on Thursday for threatening to beat up Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) president Borislav Mihaylov after his team's 2-1 home loss to Lokomotiv Sofia. Former European ...

SOFIA, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev on Thursday asked the country's socialist party to form a new government, 11 days after the country's early parliament elections. Plevneliev took the move two hours after the country's ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria — A former prime minister whose party won Bulgaria's May 12 election says his party doesn't have enough seats in parliament to form a stable government. Boiko Borisov made that decision Thursday, saying his center-right GERB party ...

KARACHI, May 22: Pakistan's cueist Mohammad Asif, who is going through a bad patch since crowning the world title in Sofia, Bulgaria, in December last, gets another opportunity to prove his mettle when the Asian 6 Red ball snooker championship gets ...

(MIA) - The Film Festival of Culture Heritage including presentation of 40 films from several European countries, was opened late Saturday in the American Centre in municipal library in Sofia with a short Macedonian film "Peace for All" by Elizabeta ...

There's no doubt that Sofia Vergara is a bonafide crossover star with plenty of English-language projects to keep her busy. There's her ongoing role on Modern Family, her new production deal with ABC for which she's created a new comedy and of ...