Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, First Deputy Secretary of State of the Holy See, and Msgr. Renato Boccardo, who is in charge of Vatican protocol of the Secretary of State, came on a two-day visit in Bulgaria on January 8....
World | January 8, 2002, Tuesday
Microsoft Corp. unveiled its latest gadget for in-home entertainment, a tablet-like device that is a cross between a handheld computer and a TV remote control....
World | January 8, 2002, Tuesday
India says it sees no change in Pakistan's stance towards terrorism and is waiting for President Pervez Musharraf to take "substantive" steps towards curbing the activities of Islamic militants. Relations between India and Pakistan have soured to their wo...
Bulgarian Telegraph Agency
The government external debt totalled 8,593....
World | January 8, 2002, Tuesday
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Shumen Regional Forestry Administration has earned DEM 406,000 Deutsche marks from hunting tourism since the opening of the hunting
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Flag carrier Balkan will pay its debts to some of its creditors in the form of free flight tickets, according to the rehabilitation program of the carrier....
The Cabinet's policy was one of the issues discussed at the first 2002 meeting of the National Executive Council of the Union of Democratic Forces on January 8. The opposition underlined the already obvious, in their opinion, helplessness of the Cabinet t...
The Executive Director of Lukoil Heftochim – Burgas Vladimir Rakitski might be appointed to another managerial position in the company, company source informed Dnevnik Daily. According to unofficial information Vladimir Rakitski might be appointed to a po...
Three Bulgarians have been detained in a village near Libya's capital Tripoli for illegal production of alcohol, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry announced. After being interrogated, one of the Bulgarians was released....
World | January 8, 2002, Tuesday
The first contingent of 70 German troops is due to arrive in Afghanistan to join the international stabilisation force. They are due to join 32 Dutch troops for the journey onward to Kabul, via Trabzon in northern Turkey....
Steps are being taken for improving the travel conditions in the State Railways Company, Deputy Transport Minister Lyubomir Ivanov said.
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70% of the Bulgarians older than 16 live under constant stress, results from a survey of the Center for Health show....
The anti-corruption program of the Cabinet will most probably be approved by next week, State Administration Minister Dimitur Kalchev said for the Bulgarian private national television bTV....
The diplomatic mission of Bulgaria in Afghanistan is to be restored, Bulgarian Foreign Ministry special envoy to Kabul Anguel Orbetsov said for the Bulgarian National Radio. The country will participate actively in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, most...