Bulgaria’s Parliament removed its deputy speaker after he supported a Jewish group’s plans to remove a memorial in Israel to Bulgaria’s controversial wartime King Boris III. The Jewish National Fund drew the ire of Bulgaria’s government when it said last week it would replace three memorials honoring Bulgaria, one of which named Boris, with a single monument that would not bear any name.
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