Democracy in Decline: Bulgaria Lands on Troubling “Autocracy Watch” List
A leading global research center on democratic systems has issued a stark warning about political trends in several countries, concluding in its latest annual report that Bulgaria is now among those showing clear signs of democratic backsliding


Seven POWs who were rescued last Sunday in Iraq leave a C-141 military plane at the US Air Base, Ramstein, southern Germany. They will be taken for medical treatment to the nearby Landstuhl Medical Center. Photo by AP












