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A Bulgarian military police car is parked at an access point to a farmland area where a drone that entered Bulgaria exploded, near the Kardam border-crossing between Bulgaria and Romania, on Saturday.
WORLD
Aug 9, 2026
Ukraine denies targeting Bulgaria as drone explodes near pipeline
Drone-related incidents have become increasingly frequent across eastern European countries that are NATO members and supporters of Ukraine.
An electoral billboard for former Bulgarian President Rumen Radev is pictured next to a traffic light in Sofia on April 17. Radev won a landslide victory in an election on Sunday that he stepped down from the ceremonial role to run in.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 21, 2026
Rumen Radev, Russia-friendly ex-fighter pilot, sweeps Bulgaria’s election
Sunday’s election outcome will allow Radev to head Bulgaria’s first single-party government in nearly three decades.
The Progressive Bulgaria coalition's leader and former President Rumen Radev speaks to the media at his party headquarters after polls closed in Bulgaria's parliamentary elections, in Sofia on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 20, 2026
Bulgaria’s pro-Russian former president set for landslide win, exit polls show
If confirmed, the runaway victory of Pro-Russian former President Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria would mark one of the strongest results in a generation.
A voter casts his ballot at a polling station during Bulgaria's parliamentary elections in Sofia on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 19, 2026
Bulgaria votes as pro-Russian former president leads the polls
Radev, a eurosceptic who opposes military support for Ukraine’s war effort against Moscow, stepped down from the presidency in January ?to run ?in the election.
Simon Yates celebrates on the podium after winning the Giro d'Italia, in Rome on June 1.
MORE SPORTS / Cycling
Dec 2, 2025
Bulgaria to host opening trio of 2026 Giro stages
It will be the 16th time that the Giro, which will run from May 9 to 31, will start in a foreign country.
The plane transporting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her staff lifts off from the tarmac of Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, in Mihail Kogalniceanu, near Constanta, Romania, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 2, 2025
GPS system of EU chief’s plane jammed, with Russian interference suspected
The EU did not address the question of whether it believe European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s airplane had been deliberately targeted.
Checkpoint officers at the border between Romania and Bulgaria man their stations on Dec. 31, moments before both countries join the Schengen zone.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 2, 2025
Romania and Bulgaria become full members of EU’s Schengen zone
The two countries join an expanded bloc whose residents can travel without passport checks.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) poses with Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on July 11.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2024
Trump’s friends in Europe welcome return of a kindred spirit
Some expect him to be less critical of their manipulation of democratic institutions, as well as their pushback on minority rights and non-Christian immigrants.
Polina Oba enjoys the food in Fukuoka, but still finds herself traveling to Tokyo often as that’s where most of the decision-makers are based.?
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 12, 2024
Polina Oba: ‘Try quick, fail quick, learn quick and you need to always pivot’
Networking is at the core of Polina Oba’s GourmetPro startup. Not only is it great meeting new people but you’ll never know where those connections may lead.
Kimia Alizadeh (left) fled Iran in 2020 and will compete for Bulgaria at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
OLYMPICS
May 17, 2024
Kimia Alizadeh targets Olympic gold with Bulgaria after fleeing Iran
Alizadeh left her country in 2020 and competed for the Refugee Olympic Team at the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 27, 2022
Russia halts gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria
Poland confirmed that supplies had been cut, while Bulgaria said it would find out soon. Both accused Russian energy firm Gazprom of breaching longstanding supply contracts.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 17, 2018
Japan-EU trade agreement is about freedom
The Japan-EU FTA sends a powerful sign that U.S. retrenchment on trade will not see the democratic world abandoning the open, rules-based trading system.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 7, 2017
Scientists hope to show humankind originated in Mediterranean
A team of excavators in Bulgaria has resumed a search for fossils of an ape-like creature that may be the oldest-known direct ancestor of man and whose discovery has challenged the central hypothesis that humankind originated in Africa.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 11, 2016
Tiny bead from Bulgaria may be world’s oldest gold artifact
It may be just a tiny gold bead — 4 mm (1/8 inch) in diameter — but it is an enormous discovery for Bulgarian archaeologists who say they have found Europe’s — and probably the world’s — oldest gold artifact.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 30, 2013
Once Tories’ answer to EU fears, enlargement is now their problem
With the U.K. Independence Party breathing down the Tories’ necks, EU enlargement is no longer the British government’s answer in Europe, but its No. 1 problem.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 29, 2013
British fears of migrant influx mirrored in Sofia
There are no anti-immigrant militia forces roaming the streets of Britain, but Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev sees clear parallels with the U.K. — indeed, in states across Europe — and he is deeply worried.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 29, 2013
Britons ready to welcome arrivals from Bulgaria, Romania, with caveats
Romanians and Bulgarians coming to the U.K. on New Year’s Day will be welcomed by more than two-thirds of Britons if they integrate and work hard, a new poll suggests ahead of restrictions on them being lifted.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
Baku championships showcase rising standards in global sumo
Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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