All 10 crewmen aboard a US military helicopter that crashed on Friday in the southern Philippines are presumed dead, the US army says.Brigadier General Donald Wurster told reporters there was "no chance" of finding survivors missing after their Chinook pl
The head of the Afghan interim authority, Hamid Karzai, has arrived in Teheran for a two-day visit to Iran. It takes place despite US accusations of Iranian meddling in Afghanistan and Iran's inclusion in US President George W Bush's "axis of evil".
Israel decided on Sunday to keep Palestinian President Yasser Arafat confined to the West Bank city of Ramallah even though he has ordered the arrest of militants wanted by Israel. The decision, overwhelmingly supported by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's 14
The Serbian Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic, has condemned the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as an expensive "circus". Mr Djindjic said the court in The Hague was "allowing Milosevic to behave like a demagogue and to cont
The Pope has ordered an inquiry into allegations that a Roman Catholic archbishop in his native Poland sexually abused seminarians and priests. The respected Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita said that Monsignor Juliusz Paetz had been banned from a seminary
Enron is negotiating with its former auditor Andersen about settling any claims that Andersen mishandled the company's books, The New York Times reported on Saturday, citing a voice-mail message issued to employees by the energy trader's chief executive.
Pakistan said on Saturday a videotape of the killing of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was too gruesome for public release.It also stepped up security at all U.
A permanent ceasefire has come into force in Sri Lanka which it is hoped will lead to peace talks between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels. The truce, which will be observed by small teams headed by international monitors, has caused great excitement
Egypt's Transport Minister, Ibrahim al-Demeri, has resigned following the country's worst ever train fire, which claimed over 370 lives. The head of the country's railway authority, Ahmed al-Sherif, has also tendered his resignation over Wednesday's disas
At least three US soldiers have died in the crash of a transport helicopter into the sea in the southern Philippines. There were 10 personnel aboard the MH-47 Chinook, which came down in a gulf north of the island of Mindanao.
Oscar-winning cartoon animator Chuck Jones, who brought to life a host of cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, has died in California of heart failure at the age of 89. He made more than 300 cartoons and won three Oscars for his work as
Israeli soldiers in the West Bank killed an unarmed Palestinian Saturday who ran toward their post in the dead of night shouting an Arabic rallying cry, the army said, quoted by Reuters. Palestinian security sources said Israel had handed the man's body o
Investigators in Pakistan say they know the names of the militants who abducted and killed Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and are taking "the strongest possible actions" to bring them to justice. Pearl's widow released a letter thanking the wor
Relatives of more than 370 people killed in Wednesday's passenger train fire in Egypt have begun the gruesome task of trying to identify their loved ones. People carrying coffins to take their dead home gathered at the central morgue in the capital Cairo,
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced Thursday his government will set up buffer zones as "security separation" to protect Israelis from the Palestinians. Asked where the zones will be, how big they will be, and if they will protect Jewish settlem
President Bush has said he welcomes the emergence of a "strong, peaceful and prosperous China" but has urged Chinese to embrace liberty, tolerance and religious freedom as the country opens up. In a speech to students at Beijing's top Tsinghua University
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped last month on his way to interview a Muslim fundamentalist leader in Pakistan, has been killed by his abductors, officials said Thursday. The U.
The war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic took a new unexpected turn when a key witness said he was too ill to finish his testimony. Farmer Agim Zeqiri, who had been giving evidence about "ethnic cleansing" killings, was excused by the court before the f
Israeli gunships fanned out across Palestinian territories, hitting Palestinian security and police targets in near simultaneous raids on Thursday. The latest Israeli operation came soon after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's security Cabinet approve
British troops have come under fire in Afghanistan for the second time in less than a week. A patrol of British paratroopers was shot at in the Afghan capital and returned fire, a spokesman for the British-led multinational force in Kabul said on Thursday
Bulgaria’s National Bank Withdraws Old Banknotes with Denomination of BGN 20 from Circulation – Check Where You can Change yours!
The Minimum Wage will be 50% of the National Average
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