Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said on Thursday that the EU's decision to blacklist Hizbullah's military wing is “unjust,” pointing out that it was based on a political decision and not security fears.

“The government should convene and assume it's responsibilities to confront the decision,” Mansour said in comments published in al-Joumhouria newspaper.

The detonator and remote control used in a Bulgarian bomb attack that killed five Israelis last year were smuggled in from Poland, a newspaper reported Monday.

The still unidentified bomber and two accomplices smuggled in the components on a train from Warsaw on June 28, the Trud daily said, citing investigators.

Hizbullah's armed wing wired almost $100,000 (75,000 euros) to two men wanted over a bomb attack that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, a newspaper report said Friday.

According to the 24 Hours daily, the money was to help organize the blast at Burgas airport on the Black Sea on July 18, 2012, and to carry out reconnaissance in other countries.

EU ambassador to Lebanon Angelina Eichhorst stressed on Friday that the European Union's decision to blacklist Hizbullah's military wing doesn't justify any Israeli action against Lebanon.

“It's a decision that denounces terrorism acts carried out in EU countries,” Eichhorst said in comments published in As Safir newspaper in response to Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's speech.

Bulgaria released pictures Thursday of two suspected helpers of a bomber who blew up a bus packed with Israeli tourists last year, identifying them as an Australian and a Canadian.

"A year after the bomb attack on a bus with Israeli tourists that killed five Israelis and one Bulgarian citizen, the authorities are seeking public assistance for information on two people suspected of having links to the attack," the interior ministry said in a statement.

Embattled Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski on Thursday urged protesters demanding his resignation to refrain from violence, two days after stone-throwing demonstrators trapped lawmakers inside parliament for hours.

Speaking after protesters marched through the streets of the capital for a 41st straight evening Wednesday, the premier -- who has been criticized as keeping silent on the protests -- urged "consensus to find a way out of the crisis" and said he was "determined to seek public agreement and dialogue".

Twenty people including three police officers needed hospital treatment in Bulgaria after long-running protests against the government in the EU's poorest country turned violent overnight, medical sources said Wednesday.

Others received medical attention at the scene after riot police broke up a blockade of parliament by around 2,000 protesters that only ended at around 3:30 am (00:30 GMT), an Agence France Presse journalist on the ground said.

Iran has denounced the European Union for its decision to blacklist Hizbullah's armed wing as a terror group, accusing it of acting in Israel's interests, Iranian media reported Tuesday.

Iran and Hizbullah are both sworn enemies of Israel and the Lebanese Shiite group has received Tehran's moral, financial and military support since its inception.

A year after an anti-Israeli bus bombing killed six people, Bulgaria is struggling to identify the attacker or confirm his suspected links to Hizbullah or Iran.

The July 18, 2012, bombing at Bulgaria's Black Sea Burgas airport was the deadliest attack on Israelis abroad since 2004 and the first in a EU member state.

Bulgaria's former spy chief Kircho Kirov has been charged with embezzling millions from the National Intelligence Service's budget between 2007 to 2011, Sofia military prosecutors said Wednesday.

Kirov -- who headed the service from February 2003 to January 2012 -- allegedly issued 1,100 documents for expenses he did not make and pocketed the money, estimated at 4.7 million leva (2.4 million euros, $3.1 million).