Journey through the eerie ruins of the Buzludzha monument, a relic of Bulgaria's communist past.

While a major part of the world has been holding their breath in expectation for the US presidential election, one country – ...

During the Cold War, communist Bulgaria was the centre of Captagon production. Bulgaria’s powerful secret service, the DS (Committee for State Security), had a sideline in smuggling via the ...

TALLAHASSEE — Republican firebrand Randy Fine has filed a bill in the Florida Senate to ban local governments, public schools and state universities from displaying flags promoting a ...

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Night - Scattered showers with a 79% chance of precipitation. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 37 °F (2.8 °C). Cloudy with a high of 36 °F (2.2 °C) and a 68% chance of precipitation ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev has praised the Czech Republic after it adopted a resolution recognizing the deportation of Crimean Tatars by Soviet authorities in 1944 as genocide.

The Sofia Globe team can testify that upholding the globe is reminiscent of the work of Atlas. Please support us in continuing to offer - as we set out to do when we launched in June 2012 - journalism ...

At the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada’s red and white maple leaf flag was raised for the very first time on Parliament Hill. On the same day in 1996, National Flag of Canada Day was ...

The People’s Chamber was the fruit of People’s Congresses. The first of these congresses took place in December 1947 and was designed to be a cross-party assembly representing the entire people of ...