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Tolerance festival brings film, theatre, talks and more

Ljubljana – The 8th House of Tolerance festival, this year entitled the House of Others, will open tonight with the screening of Exodus 91, a docu-narrative film about an Israeli diplomat sent to Ethiopia in 1991 to negotiate the airlift of 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. The screening is to be attended by the film’s director Micah Smith.

Floods in Bulgaria: 36 People were Evacuated from Karavelovo and Bogdan. President Radev arrived in the Villages

The situation remains difficult in the villages of Bogdan and Karavelovo in Karlovo region. There are a total of seven villages in the area that have declared a partial state of emergency. President Rumen Radev also arrived in the village of Karavelovo before noon. He met people affected by the floods.

Bulgaria: The Floods Continue, Villages are Separated from the World, People are Being Evacuated

There is no information about dead or injured people in the flood in Bogdan and Karavelovo. Such signals are being received but at the moment they have not been confirmed. This is what Commissioner Nikolay Nikolov, director of the General Directorate of Fire Safety and Protection of the Population, told BNT.

Torrential Rains have Flooded the Sub-Balkan Region, Rivers are Overflowing and Villages are Under Water

A partial state of emergency has been declared in five villages in the Sub-Balkan (Podbalkan) region in Bulgaria, following heavy rains that fell in the area last night. The Sub-Balkan road is closed to traffic due to flooded sections.

Passport Privilege: Turkish Fraudster’s Route to Honorary Greek Citizenship

The Greek public had to wait for investigative outlet 'inside story' to break the news on July 7, triggering fierce debate over Ayavefe's suitability for such an honour. For Ayavefe is no musicologist or historian, and certainly no wizard on the basketball court.

Yasam Ayavefe

Diana’s death stunned the world, changed the royals

Above all, there was shock. That's the word people use when they remember Princess Diana's death in a Paris car crash 25 years ago this week.

The woman the world watched grow from a shy teenage nursery school teacher into a glamorous celebrity, who comforted AIDS patients and campaigned for land mine removal couldn't be dead at the age of 36.

Bulgaria: Lightning Strike Killed Husband and Wife

A tragic incident in the area of the Bulgarian village of Gigintsi.

Local media reports that a lightning strike took the lives of a man and a woman on the road to the Chernogorsk monastery on Saturday night. On their way home from the monastery, the couple decided to take shelter in a gazebo, mayor of the village Tsana Sandova told the media.

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