Romanian President Traian Basescu Monday named Catalin Predoiu as the country's acting prime minister after Emil Boc stepped down from the post while announcing his cabinet's resignation.

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday paid a short visit to Bulgaria and discussed energy issues and military cooperation with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Xinhua reported.

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Reuters © Romania's former Prime Minister Emil Boc exits a meeting of his party, the Democrat Liberals, in Bucharest February 6, 2012. REUTERS/Bogdan...

A man sorts through the remains of his home in the village of Bisser, 288 km ( aprox. 180 miles) east of the capital Sofia, on Monday, Feb 6, 2012. A dam in southern Bulgaria collapsed after heavy...

Romanian Premier Emil Boc, front centre, leaves the headquarters of the ruling Democratic Liberal party in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, after announcing his immediate resignation with...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned on Monday amid protests against the austerity measures his government has had to impose in recent years in the EU's second-poorest...

Europe's bitterly cold weather has killed 33 more people and melting snow caused a dam wall to break and flood an entire village in Bulgaria. Rain and snowstorms lashing southern Bulgaria...

Map of the flooded area in Southeastern Bulgaria from the bTV channel. The blue line shows the route of the tidal wave from the Ivanovo water reservoir that hit the village of...

The wall of the Ivanovo dam, which collapsed Monday morning and killed eight people in the southern Bulgarian village of Biser, has had cracks which stayed unrepaired for six years. The problem...

The staff teams from the World Bank, European Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) met on 6 February to evaluate the developments in Romania’s economic programme in 2011 and...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned yesterday, giving way to mass protests against IMF-backed austerity measures and joining leaders of other European Union states hampered by soaring...

BUCHAREST, Romania -; Romania's government collapsed Monday following weeks of protests against austerity measures, the latest debt-stricken government in Europe to fall in the face of raising...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned Monday after weeks of public protests against spending cuts and other austerity measures. Boc made the announcement on Romanian television, saying he was...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- A dam in southern Bulgaria collapsed after heavy rain on Monday, flooding a village and killing at least three elderly men, authorities said.A 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) flood wave...

SOFIA, Bulgaria - A dam in southern Bulgaria burst Monday after days of heavy rain, sending an eight-foot-high (2.5-meter) torrent surging through a village along the Greek border. The disaster...

A total of eight persons have drowned in Southeastern Bulgaria as a result of flooding caused by the breaking of local water reservoir dams, the Interior Ministry has confirmed. The death toll...

Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry has sent a note warning the authorities of Turkey and Greece about the overflowing of major water dams on Bulgarian territory. Bulgaria's Ministry of Foreign...

The major road leading from Bulgaria into Turkey has been flooded as a result of broken dams in Southeastern Bulgaria. Photo: Defense...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Europe's bitterly cold weather killed another 33 people on Monday and melting snow caused a dam wall to break and flood an entire village in...

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2012 file photo, Romanian Premier Emil Boc adjusts his glasses at the Romanian parliament in Bucharest, Romania. Premier Emil Boc announced the immediate resignation of...

The toll from Europe's killer cold snap kept climbing past 300 on Monday with nine new victims found in Poland, most of them homeless, and at least three people died after a Bulgarian dam burst....

Bulgarian company Metalstroy AMS has expressed interest in cooperation with Azerbaijani entrepreneurs. The Bulgarian company is proposing to form partnerships or joint ventures in the design,...

February 6, 2012 The Romanian prime minister on Monday announced the immediate resignation of himself and his government, saying he wanted to protect the stability of the country. Emil Boc said he...

The overflowing Kalamitsa River, a tributary of the Maritsa River, has flooded a 300-meter stretch of international road E 80 between the village of Kapitan Andreevo and the Kapitan Andreevo border...

The flood at the southern Bulgarian village of Biser, which was caused by the collapse of a dam wall, has taken the lives of five elderly men. Zlatka Varbanova, mayor of the village, told...

Romania is expected to name its new Prime Minister in the following days, as Emil Boc resigned from his post on Monday after his austerity measures resulted in mass protests. President Traian...

Briquette production at the Brikel plant in the southern Bulgarian town of Galabovo has stopped due to halted coal supplies from the state-owned Maritsa Iztok Mines. Coal extraction at the mines has...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned on Monday, giving way to mass protests against IMF-backed austerity measures and joining leaders of other European Union states felled...

Bulgaria has the right, as a sovereign state, to make its own decisions on the extraction of shale natural gas deposits, the U.S. envoy to the country said. Bulgaria has as much as 35 trillion cubic...

The U.S. envoy for Eurasian energy is on his way to Sofia to discuss Bulgarian energy initiatives, the U.S. secretary of state said. Bulgarian Prime...

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet will have seven diesel-electric submarines by 2017, the fleet’s commander, Rear Admiral Alexander Fedotenkov, said on Monday. There is only one submarine, the...

BUCHAREST, Romania  — The Romanian prime minister on Monday announced the immediate resignation of himself and his Cabinet, saying he wanted to protect the stability of the country. ...

Five people drowned as torrential rains flooded southern Bulgaria on Monday, breaking a dam wall and submerging a whole village under 2.5 metres of icy water, officials and rescuers...

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Romanian Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu has been named the country's interim Prime Minister by President Traian Basescu, after Emil Boc resigned earlier on Monday. Predoiu, 43, is a lawyer...

The rescue operation for the population of the flood-hit Haskovo municipality in southern Bulgaria continues despite the fact that the Cougar rescue helicopters are highly unsuitable for severe...

A Bulgarian carrying cocaine capsules in his stomach has died at a hospital where he was taken after being captured at the Salvador International Airport. Earlier reports had suggested that the man...

A dam wall has burst near the southern Bulgarian village of Elena, located near the town of Haskovo, it emerged on Monday. Earlier on Monday, another dam wall burst and flooded the village of Biser...

A brutal Bulgarian gangster, who was caught in London last month on an alert from an investigation of The Sun, claims his human rights will be breached if he is extradited to his home country. ...