A man quite resembling to world's most wanted man Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was reportedly captured in the outskirts of Fallujah, RIA Novosti news agency informed quoting Elaf online edition. The web source reported that US militaries are currently carrying o
The Transport Ministry said it disposed of no additional information over the shipwreck incident with the Hera ship, as families of 14 missing sailors claimed that their relatives could be still alive. According to statements published in a web site and
A Bulgarian military delegation has arrived in Iraq to inspect the Eco base in Diwaniya, 180 km south of Baghdad, where Bulgarian troops face redeployment from Karbala. The military delegation include the deputy chief of Bulgaria's Land Forces General Ma
The Sofia organisation of the Red Cross has cooked and given out lunch for nearly 500 people on the World Food Day celebrated October 16. The charity initiative was organised in a dozen more towns across Bulgaria.
Scores of Bulgarian businessmen have joined the official Bulgarian delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Lidya Shouleva that left Saturday for Beijing. A total of 46 representatives of companies of various economic sectors will
Ingmar Bergman has admitted he had an out-of-wedlock daughter more than a decade before he married her mother, his latest book due to be published Monday reveals. The Swedish director, now 86, wrote he married Ingrid von Rosen twelve years after their da
Sofia's central station has been closed and its roundabouts made inaccessible by police on Saturday noon after an anonymous bomb threat was announced by a phone calling. Passengers had to get on the trains without tickets and buy them there.
British troops may be sent to Baghdad to help the coalition US forces poised for a major assault on Fallujah. Under plans being considered, a battalion of the Black Watch will deploy in the Iraqi capital to replace American troops needed for the major off
Pope John Paul II has marked his 26th year as head of the Roman Catholic Church by attending a concert performed by Russia's Red Army choir. The event staged in the Vatican's general audience hall was televised live in Italy and Russia.
Fourteen crewmembers of the Hera ship, which sank February with 17 Bulgarians onboard near the Bopshorus strait, have been rescued and brought back to Bulgaria alive, according to a web site launched by the sailors' relatives. Underwater works and the of
One person was killed and nine others wounded when a mortar round exploded in the grounds of a hospital in Baghdad. A security officer at the Ibn el-Bitar hospital said the mortar landed in the garden.
Sofia expects to record an increase of farm production exports up to USD 800 M compared to USD 783.2 M of last year, according to Agriculture Minister Mehmed Dikme.
The owner of the canvas believed to be painted in the famous Titian school or by Titian himself has said he was coming soon to Bulgaria to fetch the picture. The Greek national approached by bTV private channel confirmed he had entrusted the invaluable p
The first Iceland Culture Festival "Ice Art" was officially opened in Sofia, to end October 19. Iceland's Trade Minister Valgerdur Sverrisdottir and the Iceland consul in Bulgaria attended the opening ceremony, which took place in the Sofia University.
The Bulgarian, arrested for stealing a Renaissance oil painting, was released Friday on a BGN 1,000 bail. The Italian Renaissance masterpiece "Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac", believed to be painted by Titian or his students was stolen a year ago in Cyprus
Bulgaria's Interior Minister was sentenced to pay a fine of BGN 750 on charges of public insult. Sofia Regional Court found Petkanov guilty for calling Yordan Kovachev "corrupted".
Experience exchange topped the agenda of Bulgaria's Interior Ministry Chief Secretary to Finland, where he was accompanied by the winners in the most distinguished Bulgarian policeman competition, organized by Nokia Bulgaria and Finland's Embassy in Bulga
Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has appealed to Libya's leader Muammar Qaddafi Friday for the release of the Bulgarian medics, sentenced to death. Schroeder arrived Thursday in Tripoli for a three-day visit, which is expected to focus on German-Li
Bulgaria's government has earmarked to seven ministries over BGN 146 M from the year-end budget surplus, which is estimated to exceed BGN 1 B.
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Bulgaria is having some problems with finding equipment for the country's fourth Iraq peacekeeping unit. The Chief of Bulgarian Army Staff General Nikola Kolev revealed that Defence Minister Nikolay Svinarov has pledged to deliver the needed equipment wi
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