North Korea has already completed the development of plutonium-based nuclear weapons with the help of Pakistan, according to Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda. This is the first time a senior Japanese official has confirmed North Korea's cla
Bulgarian Parliament will vote on a draft project for the sale of the country's flag carrier Bulgaria Air next week, according to the head of the parliamentary Transport Commission Yordan Mirchev. MPs will discuss the draft before giving green light to t
Eight months following the tragedy with Cambodian-flagged Hera ship, which had 17 Bulgarian sailors onboard, Turkish marine authorities have not delivered the report over the accident. Under general practice of the International Marine Organisation (IMO)
A football stadium being used as an arms collection point in Baghdad's Sadr City suburs has come under mortar fire, world media reported.
Bulgarian football fans have planned to raise protesting slogans against the "unreasonable and absurd law" over hooligan acts at sports events adopted earlier this week. The law envisages hefty fines for all kind of aggressive performance during sports e
The new Dublin-based developers of the controversial Pomorie Golf&Beach resort in Bulgaria have said that 75% of the project will be completed by next summer, as quoted by the Sunday Business Post. The online edition reports also that deposits paid by Ir
Three men and a woman from Bulgaria were arrested in Athens suspected to have planned the sale of a newly born child. According to Greek Alpha TV channel, the men brought to the country an under-aged girl pregnant in the 8th month who was locked up in an
Belarussians went to the booths on Sunday to vote in a referendum on whether President Alexander Lukashenko should be allowed to stand for a third term. Observers say the ex-Soviet republic has become ever more isolated under his ruling, in power now for
Sofia's Sts Disciples of Cyril and Methodius Church opened doors Sunday for the people coming to pay homage to late Bulgarian poet Yossif Petrov who died a day earlier at the age of 95. Petrov presided over the country's first democratic Great National A
The terrorist group headed by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqqawi claimed it had decapitated eleven Iraqi militaries and policemen. The announcement posted on an Islamic web site denounced the killed Iraqis as "traitors from the so-called National G
US officials denied reports that Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been captured near the western Iraqi city of Fallujah. "We have heard those reports and we do not believe they are true," Lieutenant Colonel Steve Boylan, a US military spokesman
More than 2,000 people opposing the war in Iraq, including the father of Nocholas Berg, an American beheaded by terrorists, are sending Iraqis personal photos with protest messages to show "what Americans are really like". The peace group, which organised
Bulgaria is one of the most important foreign trade partners and investors to Macedonia, but the realities still fail to meet expectations, according to Foreign Minister Solomon Passy. A day ahead of his official visit to the western neighbour, Bulgaria'
The coastal city of Varna saw Saturday the start of the Black Sea rally. This year the sports event for amateurs records its 19th edition.
Bulgarian energy power is fully competitive to that produced by EU member countries, according to the chief of National Electricity Transmission Company (NETC) Vassil Atanassov. The country, facing full-fledged Union membership in 2007, shares the capaci
Four people died and another 20 were injured overnight in a total of 20 road accidents across the country, road police announced Saturday. With the incessant rain pouring for about a week over the country, the risk of causing or occurring amid an accident
After Bulgaria joins the European Union in 2007, it will be considered as India's gateway to the common European market, according to the Indian Financial Express daily. Announcing the forthcoming third sitting of the joint economic commission of the two
Sofia has asked Croatia's Foreign Ministry that the local football hooligans involved in the clashes with Bulgarian fans over the World Cup qualifier last weekend are not allowed to attend the revanche match in Sofia next year. Zagreb was also urged to u
Bulgarian Air Forces marked Saturday nearly a centenery of modern aviation, as its first pilots heralded the start of world military aviation in the beginning of last century. It was on the far date of October 16, 1912, during the Balkan War, when Bulgar
Bulgarian pilots Radul Milkov and Prodan Tarakchiev were the first people ever to use a plane as bomber. They also took the first aircraft-shot wartime pictures.
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