Burgas

Real estate prices in Bulgaria's three biggest cities after Sofia have shown sustained recovery in the third quarter of the year, Bulgarian Properties said on Thursday.

Local elections are coming in just days, and Novinite is fully aware it did not provide the campaign coverage a news outlet covering a particular country usually does whatever vote is forthcoming.

Bulgarian police detained three groups of illegal immigrants, numbering a total of 58 people, in the province of Burgas on Sunday.

One of the groups was arrested in one of the neighbourhoods of Burgas when officers from the first district department stopped a vehicle for inspection.

Bulgarian border police arrested a group of migrants in an area not far from the Turkish border, hours before a man crossing into the country with another group of people was shot dead, officials say.

Lukoil Neftochim Burgas, the largest crude oil refinery in Southeastern Europe and the largest industrial enterprise in Bulgaria, retained its third position in the latest annual ranking of SeeNews released on Tuesday.

The company which specialises in the production of fuel, petrochemicals and polymers retained its ranking from 2013.

Customs officers at Bulgaria's Black Sea port of Burgas have seized 42.4 kilogrammes of heroin being smuggled in the wheels of a German-registered truck, the Bulgarian Customs Agency said on Monday.

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said that Bulgaria is to present a joint tourism product with "neighboring Balkan countries".

Mladen Mladenov, Executive Director of the Association of Business Clusters (ABC), has said that a total of 261 clusters have been registered in Bulgaria so far.

The Spirit of Burgas music festival, which took place on Friday and Saturday at the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, recorded an attendance of 47 000 people.

As expected, the headliners of the two festival days - Robbie Williams and the British band Kasabian, attracted the greatest interest of the audience.

Security has been heightened in places where many people gather in Bulgaria on Sunday following reports that police are looking for two suspected terrorists allegedly linked to Islamic State (IS) group, bTV channel reported.

Police has launched a search for a man and a woman, bTV said, citing sources.