World | December 19, 2001, Wednesday
FBI agents in Kandahar plan to interview 15 captured al Qaeda fighters whom U.S....
World | December 19, 2001, Wednesday
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has said his government is discussing war as an option in response to last week's raid on parliament but is using diplomacy with Pakistan as its first weapon....
Standart Daily
BY Jullee Moskov
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Bulgarian President Petur Stoyanov left to Monaco on Deember 19. He is the special guest of the 12th summit within the Crans-Montana World Economic Forum....
Bulgarian Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg inaugurated an electrified and reconstructed part of the railway section between Dupnitsa and Kulata. This is the last stage of the Bulgarian section from the transport corridor N4....
Bulgarian Defense Minister Nikolay Svinarov left on a two-day visit to the Turkish resort of Antalia, where he will take part in the Sixth annual summit of defense ministers of the Southeast European countries. It opens on December 20....
The fifth Congress of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB), which will elect the Confederation’s new leadership, began on December 19. A total of 600 delegates and 300 more guests were present at the opening of the three-day c...
Bulgaria must destroy its SS-23 missiles by October 30, 2002, according to a special declaration, approved by Parliament on December 19. Out of 183 MPs who cast their votes, only three from “Coalition for Bulgaria” voted against the declaration....
Bulgaria’s biggest steel mill, Kremikovtzi, is interested in the cargo terminal at Lom port on the Danube river, Svetoslav Trendafilov, Executive Director of the port, said. According to him the plant, along with other Ukrainian and German companies, plan...
Bulgaria’s meat production for this year is set at 400,000 tons, up by 1,3% over last year, data from Agriculture Ministry show. Output of meat products is expected to be up by 4,4 %, reaching 41,000 tons....
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Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy is due in Libya on Wednesday to discuss the trial of six Bulgarians who have been accused of deliberately infecting nearly 400 children with the HIV virus....
World | December 19, 2001, Wednesday
United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has warned that European cities could be targets of terrorist attacks similar to those which struck America on 11 September. Speaking at a meeting of Nato defence ministers in Brussels, Mr Rumsfeld said Euro...
World | December 19, 2001, Wednesday
The new interim leader of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has welcomed proposals for an international security force. But he stressed that such a force was a purely temporary measure, only needed until the new Afghan Government was able to put in place its own...
The Bulgarian Deposit Guarantee Fund, an interbank institution that protects depositors’ savings in local banks, will extend 100% cover in case of bank insolvency to deposits of up to BGN 10,000. The amendments are envisaged by the Bank Deposit Guarantee...
The Bulgarian pension funds have accumulated BGN 160 M from insurance contributions for the first eleven months of 2001, the State Agency for Insurance Supervision announced. Voluntary pension contributions stood at BGN 115....