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The United Nations Middle East special envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2020. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
January 9, 2026, 11:13 am
Nickolay Mladenov, US pick for Gaza board, has won Israelis’ and Palestinians’ trust
Bulgarian diplomat, tapped as secretary-general of Trump-chaired ‘Board of Peace,’ was received well by Jerusalem and Ramallah alike for 2015-2020 work as UN Mideast peace envoy
By Veselin Toshkov
The "Wall of the Righteous" (Mur des Justes) outside the Shoah Memorial in Paris, France, is vandalized with red-hands graffiti, May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz / AFP)
October 30, 2025, 9:17 am
Three Bulgarians go on trial for painting red hands at Paris Holocaust Memorial
French intelligence says vandalism part of Russian campaign to destabilize Western society; one suspect says he did not understand antisemitic nature of graffiti and apologizes
By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY
Attendees take part an anti-Israel rally in solidarity with Palestinians and to protest against the interception by the Israeli navy of the Global Sumud Flotilla, in Istanbul, on October 5, 2025. (Yasin AKGUL / AFP)
October 5, 2025, 8:00 pm
Hundreds of thousands march in rallies across Europe against Israel
Protests held in Turkey, the Netherlands, Bulgaria and Spain, also Morocco, in support of Palestinians and of flotilla intercepted as it headed to Gaza Strip
By Agencies and ToI Staff
President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a joint press conference with Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda at the Border Guard School near Lithuanian-Belarusian border, near the village Medininkai, east of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Sept. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
September 1, 2025, 4:27 pm
EU chief’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming over Bulgaria, lands safely
Pilot flying EU chief Ursula von der Leyen reportedly used paper maps to land; Bulgaria suspects Russia to blame, but not clear if von der Leyen was specifically targeted
By AFP
The entrance of a building reportedly housing the Norta Global company according to company contacts, in Sofia, Bulgaria, September 19, 2024. (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP)
September 20, 2024, 5:49 am
Sleuthing for origins of exploding Hezbollah pagers widens to Bulgaria and Norway
Lebanese security source says ‘it’s possible that the Mossad created a European company’ to send the devices to the terror group, which believed they were produced in Asia
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A picture shows red hand graffiti painted on buildings' walls of the Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie street, in the area where earlier the Holocaust memorial was vandalized with the same red handprints in Paris, on May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz/ AFP)
August 7, 2024, 5:40 pm
Suspect who painted red hands on Paris Holocaust memorial denies racial motives
One of three Bulgarian men fighting extradition to France claims it was ‘just hooliganism’ that led him to deface memorial; Sofia court postpones decision until September 26
By AFP
The "Wall of the Righteous" (Mur des Justes) outside the Shoah Memorial in Paris, France, is vandalized with red-hands graffiti, May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz / AFP)
July 27, 2024, 5:49 am
Bulgaria says 3 held on suspicion of vandalizing Paris Holocaust memorial in May
Balkan nation’s security agency says the suspects ‘are known to gravitate around Bulgarian groups that profess far-right extremist ideology’
By AFP
From left: David Leopold, Sasha Wilson, Joseph Cullen, Lawrence Boothman and Clare Fraenkel in 'The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria,' now at 59E59 Theaters. (Carol Rosegg/ via JTA)
May 10, 2024, 10:44 am
New dark comedy for stage asks: Was Bulgaria’s King Boris III friend or foe to the Jews?
The paradoxical leader dabbled in fascism, was loved by his people, saved 50,000 lives while enacting antisemitic laws, and is the subject of a play running in NYC through June 2
By Elizabeth Karpen
File: Then-deputy prime minister of Bulgaria, Rumiana Bachvarova, right, speaks with the media prior to a meeting of EU justice and interior ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, September 14, 2015. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
June 3, 2023, 4:37 am
Bulgaria’s ambassador to Israel condemned for skipping Holocaust history conference
Organizers say envoy’s decision to forgo event indicative of her government’s attempts to whitewash history on WWII round-up of 11,000 Jews in what is today North Macedonia
By Toby Axelrod
King Boris of Bulgaria, wearing civilian dress, left, with Adolf Hitler and Joachim Von Ribbentrop, right, when he paid a visit on May 14, 1941, at Hitler's Rolling headquarters. (AP Photo)
March 17, 2023, 11:26 am
Why Bulgarian Jews skipped an official ceremony marking their rescue from the Nazis
Officials marked 80 years since Tsar Boris III stopped the deportation of the country’s 48,000 Jews; they didn’t mention the 11,000 whose murder by Nazis his government facilitated
By David I. Klein
Members of nationalist organizations parade with torches during a march to commemorate Bulgarian general and politician Hristo Lukov, in the center of Sofia, on February 16, 2019. (Dimitar DILKOFF/AFP)
February 26, 2023, 12:42 am
Bulgaria bans annual neo-Nazi march honoring WWII general
Police block roads where Nazi-supporting Hristo Lukov lived, in order to prevent nationalists from holding ceremony in his memory
By AP
Security and ambulances at the scene after an explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. (AP /Francisco Seco)
November 19, 2022, 2:23 pm
Bulgaria charges 5 suspects with helping deadly Istanbul bombing suspect
Local media says 3 of the suspects are Moldovan and a 4th is from an unspecified Arab country; Turkey blames Kurdish PKK, which denies involvement in blast that killed 6
By AFP
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against the opening of the "Tsar Boris III" association, named after Boris the Third, Bulgaria's leader during World War II and a close ally of Adolf Hitler, in Ohrid, on October 7, 2022. (Robert ATANASOVSKI / AFP)
October 8, 2022, 4:25 pm
Jewish groups, others in North Macedonia angered by ethnic Bulgarian club’s name
Protesters rally against cultural association named after monarch Boris III, who allied his country with Nazi Germany and Axis in WWII
By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES
Bulgarian MEP Angel Dzhambazki makes a Nazi salute after addressing the European Parliament, February 17, 2022. (Screengrab/YouTube)
February 17, 2022, 2:16 pm
Outrage after Bulgarian politician gives Nazi salute in European Parliament
President of bloc body says fascist gesture by nationalist Angel Dzhambazki ‘offends me and everyone else in Europe’; lawmaker may face sanctions
By AFP
Dr. Aleksander Hugo Oscar (Courtesy via JTA)
February 2, 2022, 8:22 pm
Bulgarian Jewish leader falsely accused of embezzling, then targeted by antisemitism
Hospital denies media claims that Dr. Aleksander Oscar, president of a local Jewish organization, was ever accused of filing fraudulent medical reports
By David I. Klein
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