Bulgaria has the lowest income per capita in the group of Eastern European countries with the exception of Macedonia and Albania is one of the conclusions of the Millenium Development Goal Initial Report, Bulgaria 2003. Incomes in Bulgaria are approximat
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is in the US for talks with US President George Bush about the war in Iraq.
US forces edged closer to Baghdad on several routes Thursday, preparing for a possible confrontation with Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard. Vicious sandstorms that had made troop movements nearly impossible abated early Thursday - a change in fortunes fo
Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev will meet today with US Ambassador to Bulgaria James Pardew to discuss possibilities for participation of Bulgarian companies in the post-war reconstruction of Iraq. Deputy Economy Minister Mil
Some thirty explosions have hit Baghdad during the night, Elena Ioncheva, correspondent of the Bulgarian National Television in the Iraqi capital said. Most of the bombs targeted the Iraqi Republican Guard.
The UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has urged the Security Council to heal the "deep divisions" caused by the Iraq crisis and reassert itself by tackling the country's humanitarian needs, BBC reported.
Several hundred American troops have parachuted into northern Iraq in the first big US deployment north of Baghdad, BBC reported.
Famous Bulgarian artist Ivan Yahnadzhiev opened a body-art exhibition in Sofia March 26, which was attended by General Vassil Vassilev, Chief of the National Police Service.
"There will be a day of reckoning for the Iraqi regime and that day is drawing near," President Bush rallied troops at Central Command headquarters in Florida Wednesday, as cited by CNN. The president warned that tough battles likely lie ahead, warning o
Qatar-based TV station al-Jazeera has shown pictures of what are said to be two dead British soldiers and two British prisoners of war, BBC reported.
The ambassadors of the 19 NATO member countries signed Bulgaria's accession document at the alliance headquarters in Brussels Wednesday afternoon. The accession protocols of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia were also signed, ame
A major fire raged for a second day Wednesday at the Vidachim chemical plant waste storage in Northwestern Bulgaria. Dozens of firefighters struggled to put out the fire that burst out on Tuesday afternoon.
President Parvanov met on Wednesday with representatives of one of the biggest trade unions in Bulgaria the Confederation of the Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria. They discussed the economic and social consequences from the war in Iraq.
Bulgaria may not send troops to a neighboring to Iraq country, it emerged on Wednesday. General Nikola Kolev, Chief of the General Staff of the Bulgarian Armed Forces, did not rule out this option after a meeting with Bulgarian President Parvanov.
Government spokesman Dimitur Tsonev confirmed Wednesday that Bulgaria did not face military threat because of the war in Iraq. He specified that the situation in Sarafovo neighborhood of Black Sea city Burgas where US aircraft and troops are stationed was
The crisis in Iraq showed the need of a true common EU foreign and security policy, Javier Solana, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and High representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, said at a meeting with Bulgaria's
The Council of the Arab Countries in Bulgaria denounced at a news conference the war in Iraq on Wednesday.
Two Bulgarian officers will be sent to the Central Command's temporary headquarters in the Gulf in Doha, Qatar, the Defence Ministry announced.
Fourteen people have died and another 30 have been injured as two missiles or bombs hit a market in the north of Baghdad.
With spring setting in, the ceremonial guards in front of the Presidency in Sofia donned their red tunics trimmed in white.
Last year, the Bulgarian population has fallen by 45,596 people, the national statistical institute announced. 7,845,500 people were registered in Bulgaria as of December 31, 2002.
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