The Iraqi Oil Ministry is expected to clear all misunderstandings concerning the scandal that broke out over Saddam Hussein oil bribes, Hamid Mussa, member of the Iraq's Governing Council told private Bulgarian bTV channel, underlining that more details a
A strong earthquake shook Bulgaria's southern neighbour Greece early Monday. The tremor was felt in the southern part of the country and authorities said there were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage.
A Polish skinhead gang attacked and beat up three Bulgarian drivers in south Poland Sunday. According to witnesses, the ruffians attacked the three men for no obvious reason.
Thirty-five Bulgarian and foreign airlines will carry out charter flights to Bulgaria's main coastal city of Varna this summer. Some of the companies are based in the UK, Germany, Belgium, Israel and Switzerland.
None of the Bulgarian soldiers from the unit stationed in Karbala got injured in the several incidents on Sunday, involving buses carrying pilgrims to the holy Shia city, Bulgarian army officials, cited by the Darik radio, said.
Coalition forces in the Iraqi city of Karbala opened fire at a bus carrying Ashoura pilgrims, which didn't stop at a checkpoint some 20 kilometers off the city Sunday. Several people were wounded, media says.
Macedonia's Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski criticized Sunday NATO's Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina (SFOR) for making some communication faults during the investigation of the plane crash that claimed the life of President Boris Trajkovsk
Bulgarians who worked at the World Trade Center in New York City received a warning not to got to work on September 11, 2001, when terrorists rammed hijacked passenger jets into the twin towers, bestseller author Michael Moore writes in his latest book "D
The situation in Karbala is rather tense at the moment, but still under control, Bulgaria's Defense Minister Nikolay Svinarov, cited by local Info radio, said Sunday. Svinarov was approached for comment on talks that terrorists may carry out attacks in t
Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has gone into exile after rebels threaten to attack capital Port-au-Prince, and the US intensified pressure for his to step down from the post. On Sunday morning, Aristide left for neighboring Dominican Republic.
Leaders of Bulgaria's United Labor Bloc (ULB), the National Movement for Rights and Freedoms (NMRF) and agrarian National Union BZNS (NUBZNS) formed Sunday a new coalition to enter next year's parliamentary elections. The partners also okayed a joint Str
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, who has just come back from an official visit to the US, has been assured that Washington insists on a quick and fair ending of the Libyan trial against six Bulgarian medics. The US expressed clearly its concern
A Singapore-flagged tanker loaded with some 30 tons of industrial ethanol exploded Saturday evening near the coast of Virginia, US. There were 27 people onboard - Philippines and Greeks, of whom at least three died.
Customs officers at the Danube Bridge connecting Bulgaria and its neighbor on the north, Romania, seized EUR 50,000 fake bills Saturday. The notes were hidden in a bus traveling from Bulgaria to Poland.
Saturday's efforts to find crew and wrecks of the ill-fated Cambodian-flagged Hera ship that sank February 13 with seventeen Bulgarian and three Ukrainian sailors aboard, turned out to be fruitless. However, the operation will continue over the weekend.
Polish commanders of the international peacekeeping forces in Karbala, including a Bulgarian unit, have expressed concern over possible terrorist attacks on March 2, a major religious holiday for the Shia population that dominates the region. In a televi
A privately-owned airplane, carrying two Austrian nationals, crashed near Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Burgas Saturday.
More than 2,000 people gathered Saturday in Sofia to hear the speech of former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov, who officially started the set-up of a new rightist party. On Saturday's afternoon, Kostov and his supporters appointed a special committee for pre
A worker at Bulgaria's Troyanovo 1 colliery was heavily burned by a voltaic arc Friday, Sofia-based Darik radio said. The man, aged 54, was rushed to a hospital in the city of Stara Zagora, where doctors estimated 90% burning of his skin.
The group of almost 30 people that resigned as members of Bulgaria's right-wing Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) earlier this month, is expected to lay the foundations of a new party Saturday. The "mavericks" are planning to appoint a special committee th
It was a mistake of the pilot that caused for the plane of Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski to crash, Bosnian newspaper Dnevni Avaz wrote Saturday. According to the article, the pilot was having some trouble flying the machine because of bad weather
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