Police investigating a huge warehouse explosion that killed at least 26 people on the outskirts of the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad said on Saturday it was most likely an accident. But they immediately added sabotage could not be ruled out.
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit appointed the little-known MP Masum Turker as crisis-hit Turkey's new economy minister on Saturday after the resignation of respected economist Kemal Dervis earlier in the day. Ecevit on Saturday sent a decree to appoi
India, which conducted tit-for-tat nuclear tests with neighboring Pakistan more than four years ago, said on Friday it was still working on setting up a command and control system for its nuclear weapons. "Command and control is a process that is on at th
A powerful blast rocked a building belonging to a construction company Friday, killing at least 26 people and wounding as many as 80, according to the military commander in the city. Cmdr.
In his first public remarks since US President George W Bush vowed last month to see him replaced, Saddam Hussein said that "evil people" who threatened Arab and Muslim countries would be left "in the dustbin of history". The televised address came amid g
Authorities in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk have declared a state of emergency after torrential rain and floodwaters struck. At least two people are known to have died and six are missing but the Emergencies Ministry in Moscow has denied ini
South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has named a media mogul as the country's new prime minister. Chang Dae-whan, 50, is the chief executive of the Maeil Business Newspaper.
Unidentified attackers have hurled grenades at a missionary hospital near Islamabad, killing three nurses. About 20 people were injured and one of the suspected assailants killed in the attack - the second against Christian or Western interests in Pakista
The level of accounting errors at bankrupt telecommunications firm WorldCom is almost double the level previously reported. An internal audit has revealed an additional $3.
The Turkish Labour Minister, Yasar Okuyan, has resigned amid controversy over a draft law aimed at expanding the rights of workers. In another development, Turkey has promised the IMF that despite the political vacuum of looming elections it will press ah
The French Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, has cancelled his country's plan to host an international expo near Paris in 2004 because of lack of finance or foreign interest. The decision was said to be based on a report by the government's inspector
A Serb leader in the divided Kosovo city of Mitrovica says United Nations police and Nato troops have raided his house in an attempt to arrest him. The man, Milan Ivanovic, said he had been elsewhere at the time, but that his home had suffered considerabl
A French court has ordered that the website of an ultra far-right group linked to the man who allegedly tried to assassinate President Jacques Chirac be shut down. The ruling is the result of a complaint lodged by the Union of French Jewish Students (UEJF
The Czech government agreed on Thursday to sell a majority in national phone firm Cesky Telecom to a consortium of Deutsche Bank and Denmark's TDC in the largest private equity deal ever seen in eastern Europe. The German bank's venture offered 1.
President Saddam Hussein said on Thursday he was not frightened by U.S.
The new Czech Government has won a vote of confidence in parliament, scraping through by 101 votes to 98. The vote was a test of the government's razor-thin majority, which has set itself the tasks of bringing the country into the European Union and stren
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to lend Brazil an extra $30bn, hoping that this will help pull the country and the region out of crisis. About $24bn of this will be distributed next year, Horst Koehler, the IMF managing director said in a
Countries in East and Central Africa may move to ban the civilian ownership of small arms in a bid to fight insecurity in the region. It is estimated that there are 100 million illicit small arms in Africa, crippling development in many areas of the conti
At least 13 people have been killed and nearly 30 wounded in explosions in the Colombian capital Bogota, minutes before Alvaro Uribe was sworn in as the country's president. Several of the explosions took place in poor Cartucho district a few streets away
Relatives of the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing have given a cautious welcome to a statement by Libya that it is ready, in principle, to pay them compensation. The announcement was made by Libyan Foreign Minister Abderrahmane Chalgam, after talks b
Ukraine blamed two pilots on Wednesday for the world's worst air show disaster, saying their decision to ignore orders and execute a dangerous maneuver contributed to the deaths of 85 people. The victims, many of them children, died when a Sukhoi Su-27 je
The Bulgarian Yogurt is now a Protected Designation of Origin in the EU
Bulgaria is in the Top 25 Countries with the Biggest Debt Slaves
