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The qualifying match between Bulgaria and Hungary for next year's European soccer championship fell victim to a bitter dispute between the management of the Bulgarian Football Union and soccer fans from across the Balkan country. The Bulgarian national team has failed to qualify for a major tournament for nearly two decades.

Gabriela Bankova says she can't get her pneumonia treated as she can't get admitted to a Bulgarian hospital under the correct gender. She has vowed to get official recognition of gender reassignment -- which was prohibited by Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassation early this year -- or die trying.

Elsewhere, Spain were comfortable winners and Hungary clinched qualification with a 97th-minute own goal amid violent scenes in Sofia.

At least five policemen and ten football fans were injured in clashes outside the stadium during Bulgaria's Euro 2024 qualifier against

Hungary clinched their ticket for Euro 2024 on Thursday thanks to an own goal from Bulgaria's Alex Petkov deep in stoppage time,

On the same day the federal authorities raided the home of Mayor Eric Adams’s chief fund-raiser, they also searched the residences of two people with ties to Turkey.

The qualifying match between Bulgaria and Hungary for next year's European soccer championship fell victim to a bitter dispute between the management of the Bulgarian Football Union and soccer fans from across the Balkan country. The Bulgarian national team has failed to qualify for a major tournament for nearly two decades.

Hungary qualified for its third straight European Championship after an own-goal in stoppage time in a game marred by violent clashes outside an empty stadium in Bulgaria on Thursday. Bulgarian fans threw makeshift bombs, stones and plastic bottles at the police, which responded with a water cannon after trash cans were set on fire in the capital of Sofia.

Already-qualified Scotland came from behind to draw 2-2 with Georgia in Tbilisi

Hungary qualified for its third straight European Championship after an own-goal in stoppage time in a game marred by violent clashes outside an empty stadium in Bulgaria