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The Danube River has recently reached its peak levels due to heavy rainfall in Europe, resulting in overflows in Budapest. However, officials in Bulgaria report that there is no danger of flooding in the Bulgarian section of the river. The Agency for Research and Maintenance of the Danube is continuously monitoring water levels, which remain well within safe limits.

A high wave passes through the Bulgarian section of the Danube. Observation of dikes and offshore facilities has been introduced. So far there is no danger of settlements' flooding, the Danube Research Agency assured.

At Vidin Border on the 24th of November, a passenger car arrived with two Bulgarian citizens - a man and a woman. A total of 29 packets of tablets in pink and green color were found in the bag of the car in sports bags and in the place of the spare tire when joint inspections were carried out by officers of Border Police and TMU-Lom.

Vidin. Patients from Vidin will be transported to hospitals in Montana and Lom after a technical failure in the haemodialysis centre in Vidin, the Ministry of Health said. Minister Kiril Ananiev ordered an inspection in the centre. The management of the Vidin hospital expects the device to resume operations on Monday after repairs.

17 700 euro, 170 leva and personal documents were stolen from a man traveling by train from Sofia to Lom. The report of the theft was filed by the victim himself.

Officials at Customs Lom detained 6,000 liters of ethyl alcohol traveling with fake documents to an EU country.

Artists from Germany, Japan, Niue - South Pacific and Romania will perform over July 25-30 at the 6th edition of the "3 Smoked Olives Island Festival" (3SOF), the single electronic music festival in Romania taking place on an island, informs a release sent to AGERPRES.

Bulgarian authorities have smashed a gang suspected of smuggling migrants into Western Europe, prosecutors said in a statement on Wednesday.

Eight people, including two Pakistanis, were charged with smuggling offences after they transported migrants, mainly Pakistanis, Afghans and Iraqis, from Turkey into Romania and then to Hungary and Austria, the statement said.

The narcotic substance was found in a cargo truck with terracotta tiles delivered to a warehouse in Bulgaria from Iran, according to Standart newspaper, cited by BNR.

The tiles with a total weight of 23 tons travelled from Bulgaria to Holland.

The truck with the terracotta was stopped for a check by the team of the Customs in Lom on the Dunav.

On the World Book and Copyright Day 23 April the club "Chitalishte.to" is organizing a donors campaign for books, reported BNR. They will be send to different community centers in Bulgaria.

The books will be collected from 11:00 to 15:00 at the "Chitalishte.to" 's office on the "Lom" Street in Sofia.