Boost in Bilateral Ties Top on Agenda of PM in Albania
Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg left Wednesday on a two-day official visit to Albania at the invitation of Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano.
Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg left Wednesday on a two-day official visit to Albania at the invitation of Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano.
Deputy Foreign Minister Petko Draganov pays a visit to Greece. The Iraqi crisis, Bulgaria's EU accession and the bilateral relations will be top on the agenda.
Border police at Kalotina border check point prevented two attempt for illegal export of forged EUR 100 bank notes and a fake identity card, issued in Greece. The currency and the card have been carried by Bulgarian nationals on a bus heading for the Neth
Baghdad came under renewed bombardment in fresh air raids on Wednesday morning at 10 am Bulgarian local time. A number of large explosions were heard in Baghdad shortly before dawn.
Iraqi Ambassador to Bulgaria Yahiya Mahdi said that the leadership of his country will not use weapons of mass destruction in the war. Mahdi told private bTV channel that his country had "the possibility to hit strongly the aggressors.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov has criticized the U.S.
US troops killed some 650 Iraqis in fighting near the central town of Najaf over the last 24 hours, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Major John Altman, intelligence officer of the Third Infantry Division's First Brigade.
The advance of US Marines north from the southern city of Nassiriya was stopped by Iraqi resistance, Reuters reported.
Coalition forces are reportedly standing by to enter the southern Iraqi city of Basra to support a possible civilian uprising.
Iraqi state television appears on air despite bombing of station by US-led forces hours earlier. Iraq's international satellite channel remains off air.
Bulgaria will sign its NATO accession protocol today in Brussels. The ceremony will start at 3 pm local time (4pm Bulgarian time).
Buildings are burning in central Baghdad after what appear to be dawn raids by coalition forces, BBC reported. US warplanes again pounded Republican Guard positions near Baghdad on Wednesday after American ground forces reported killing up to 300 Iraqi t
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has warned the war in Iraq is still "much closer to the beginning than the end", but said humanitarian aid was already being delivered. At a Pentagon briefing, Rumsfeld said "food, water and medicine" was being provid
Fierce sandstorms are holding up US-led forces in their advance towards the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Tuesday exhorted Arab tribesmen and clans throughout the country to join the fight against the U.S.
President Bush has sent Congress a request for USD 74.7 B to pay for the first six months of the war.
Saudi Arabia has made a peace proposal to the United States and Iraq and is awaiting a response, international agencies reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has strongly denied US claims that Russian firms have sold military equipment to Iraq.
Sandstorms slowed U.S.
Bulgaria and Russia chose different approaches in seeking a resolution to the problem with disarming Iraq, but on international issues our positions have more similarities than differences, Russia's Ambassador to Bulgaria Vladimir Titov said in an exclusi
Serbian police have arrested the man suspected of assassinating Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, new Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic said at a news conference. The man, a former senior officer in a special police unit, has been identified as Zvezdan
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