News archive of February 2015

The locomotive and two cars of the passenger train Sofia- Karlovo derailed at the railroad switches leading to the Stryama railway station on Sunday morning.

No passengers or crew members on the train were injured, according to the press office of the Bulgarian Railways Company (BDZ).

Nigeria's military on Feb. 1 repelled a Boko Haram assault on the key city of Maiduguri as violence raged across the country's northeast just two weeks before national elections.
 
The hours-long attack on the strategic capital of Borno state was the Islamists' second attempt to take Maiduguri in a week.    

Boko Haram fighters on Feb. 1 launched a fresh attempt to take over the strategically crucial northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a brazen attack on a state capital just two weeks before national elections.

A taxi driver was killed while his passenger was injured after a crane at a stadium construction site in the northwestern province of Bursa was toppled over by the ongoing Lodos weather pattern that has been affecting western Turkey.

Hüseyin Hayatsever huseyin.hayatsever@hdn.com.tr Thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong on Feb. 1 for the first time since mass demonstrations shut down parts of the city for more than two months.
 

The southern Bulgarian municipality of Smolyan is in a state of emergency over heavy rain and strong wind.

The Cherna River overflowed its banks in several places in the town of Smolyan.

Scores of basements and buildings have been flooded.

The six Bulgarian aid workers, who were held captive in Sudan since January 26, have been released.

The six Bulgarian citizens were detained by Sudanese rebels after their helicopter made an emergency landing.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed in a video that it has beheaded a second Japanese hostage, drawing international condemnation and outrage from a visibly upset Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who denounced it as a "heinous and despicable" act.
 

Bulgaria holds a day of national mourning for late Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev.

Zhelev, a dissident who served as Bulgaria's first democratically elected president (1990-1997) after the fall of communism, passed away on Friday at the age of 79.

Bulgarian national flags at all state institutions will be flown at half-mast.