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 Palestinian leadership has agreed in principle to an Israeli proposal to pull troops out of some occupied areas in exchange for a crackdown on militants. "There is preliminary approval," Palestinian minister Nabil Shaath said after Chairman Yasser Ara
Saddam Hussein announced plans to address the Iraqi nation as a new report Wednesday said U.S.
German unemployment has gone back above the crucial 4 million mark, just ahead of a keenly-contested general election. The seasonally unadjusted jobless total was 4.
About 30 Israeli tanks firing heavy machineguns raided the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday in a sweep for militants and troops shot dead a Palestinian policeman, witnesses said. The incursion and bloodshed underlined the obstacles that remain to peace de
Iraq's central bank plans to issue a 10,000 dinar banknote for commercial transactions. "This note will be used in relatively large commercial deals, notably for real estate and costly machinery," Iraqi Central Bank (ICB) governor Isam Rashid Huwaysh was
Senior United Nations managers have been warned not to engage in lavish entertaining during the forthcoming environment summit in Johannesburg. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's chief of staff S Iqbal Riza urged his senior staff to remember that the confe
Ten members of the pro-Russian Chechen military police force have been killed in an attack blamed on Chechen rebels in the south of the republic. At least eight others were injured when their vehicle hit a radio controlled landmine in the southern Shatoi
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has told Iraq it must accept the Security Council's terms on disarmament and weapons inspections before a UN official can take up an Iraqi invitation to visit. In a letter to Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, M
The French cabinet has approved a ban on the far-right group linked to the man who allegedly tried to kill President Jacques Chirac last month. Maxime Brunerie, who opened fire with a hunting rifle at the Bastille Day parade in Paris, is said to involved
A man critically injured in the Ukraine air show disaster has died, bringing the number killed in the world's worst air show disaster to 85. The disaster happened when a fighter jet ploughed into spectators at an air show in Lviv while performing an aerob
More than 620,000 Austrians have signed an official petition against a government decision to buy a fleet of new Eurofighter jets. The tally - more than 10% of the population - means parliament will now have to debate the issue.
British Foreign Office Minister Mike O'Brien has left for Libya on the first British ministerial visit to Libya since 1983. He is due to arrive in Tripoli on Tuesday afternoon for talks aimed at securing the support of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime for
Surgeons at a Los Angeles hospital have separated twin girls who were joined by the top of their heads. The separation appeared to be successful, Dr Houman Hemmatti told an American television network after the 20-hour operation.
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
