Bulgaria May Ask for EU Aid to Handle Rise in Syrian Refugees
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Bulgaria may ask the European Union and Red Cross for aid in handling an increase in Syrian refugees as President Barack Obama seeks congressional approval for a strike on the Middle-East country.
Bulgaria, which shares a border with Turkey, may have to provide shelter for as many as 10,000 Syrians by year end, Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev said in an e-mailed statement in the capital Sofia today.