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Bulgaria ranks 78 in 2004 Index of Economic Freedom, a survey prepared by Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, released on Friday.
Hong Kong still has the world's freest economy for the tenth year in a row.
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The number of registered HIV positive Bulgarians in by the end of 2003 reached 465, doctor Tonka Vurleva, Secretary General of the National AIDS Committee with Bulgaria's Health Ministry announced. She explained that the newly registered HIV positive case
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Three more Bulgarian soldiers injured in the December 27, 2003 attack against the Bulgarian base India in the in the southern Iraqi city Karbala were released from the Military-Medical Academy in Sofia.
Corporal Georgi Voronov and privates Dimitar Stefan
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The decision of the intergovernmental committee is an attempt of the Bulgarian state to shift the responsibility for its mistakes and inadequate policy upon the detained Bulgarians, reads an open letter of the families of the six Bulgarian medics in Libya
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Bulgaria might need to start power imports in 2006 as a result from closing units 3,4 of its only nuclear power plant, Ivan Hinovski of the Bulgarian Energy Forum said Friday.
After the two reactors are shut down, mainly heating plants will be used for p
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Regional partnership, tourism development and education exchange between Bulgarian coastline region, Varna in particular, and Turkish region of Antalia were the main purposes of the meeting held between the Consul General of Turkey to Burgas Vural Altay a
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British company Bulgarian Sea Properties is going to build up a recreation resort near the sea village of Kavarna, a local radio reported. There will be a tender over 31 decare of the land on Feb 4.
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"I dedicate this award to Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg, who gave me the opportunity to realize what I worked for over the last 14 years," Foreign Minister Solomon Passy said Friday at the ceremony where he was awarded the Personality of Th
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LUKOil Neftochim raised production prices of fuels due to changes in the international market, the company reported. A-92 petrol will be sold at 1.
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I don't expect the Benghazi court to pass sentences during its next session January 12, Bulgarian doctor Zdravko Georgiev who is one of the six Bulgarian defendants in the Libyan HIV infection trial, told Bulgarian bTV channel over the phone on Friday.
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NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), General James Jones, who arrived in Sofia on Thursday, highly evaluated the reforms in Bulgaria's army as well as the work of the Balkan country's military forces participating in NATO peacekeeping missions
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The pay of the Bulgarian troops that patrol the Iraqi city of Karbala will be increased to USD 80, Bulgaria's Defence Minister Nikolay Svinarov said after a meeting with President Parvanov. The proposal will be tabled to the Cabinet on Friday.
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The nomination of Colonel Kircho Kirov, who is now acting chief of the National Investigation Service, was approved by the Cabinet on Thursday. He will also receive a higher military degree of brigadier general.
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A new checkpoint will be opened at Bulgaria's border with Turkey in a bid to ease the border crossing regime. The decision was announced by Transport Minister Nikolay Vassilev after the Cabinet meeting on Thursday.
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The state shirks responsibility in leaving it up to the Bulgarian medics to decide whether to ask for a new expert examination in the HIV trial against them in Libya, Ivan Nenov, husband of one of the five nurses, defendants in the case, told the Bulgaria
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A list of airlines from eight countries, which are banned from flying in UK air space has been published, BBC informed.
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Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca Bulgaria donated life-saving medicines worth BGN 7 500 to the Children's Nephrology Clinic in Sofia. The donation supports the Bulgarian Christmas initiative and the charity concert "Give hope to the children in ne
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Four Bulgarian soldiers, who had refused to serve in Iraq following the attacks against the Bulgarian unit there, have since changed their minds and decided to go ahead with the mission, it emerged on Thursday.
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At its next hearing on January 12 Benghazi Criminal Court will not pronounce a verdict in the HIV trial against the six Bulgarian medics, but might fix a deadline for doing that, Bulgaria's Justice Minister Anton Stankov announced following the intergover
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NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), General James Jones starts an official two-day visit to Bulgaria on Thursday.
Talks he is scheduled to hold are said to take place on the next day.
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The Bulgarian joint committee observing the Libyan HIV trial against six Bulgarian medics is set for holding a special meeting on Thursday.
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