Bulgaria's entry into the North Atlantic Alliance turned into a national cause, Nadezhda Mihaylova, leader of rightist Union of Democratic Forces said. She also pointed out that Bulgaria's NATO entry offers the country a greater security level as well as
More than 200 reservists from the Karlovo military brigade have applied for Bulgaria's third Karbala unit. The contest for the soldiers willing to become a part of the Bulgarian peacekeeping mission in Iraq began March 12.
A bomb exploded outside a small mosque in the town of Baquba, north of Baghdad, destroying most of the building and wounding one person. Witnesses said that the al-Rasul al-Adham mosque, predominantly attended by Shia Muslims, had collapsed from the force
Part of a lost composition by Johann Sebastian Bach has been found in Japan around 80 years after it went missing.
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy left today for the Uzbek capital Tashkent.
A strong earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale hit Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures in eastern Japan.
British media reported on Sunday that Tony Blair has struck an agreement with the prime minister of Romania to relax controls on migrants from his country coming into Britain. According to a report in The Sunday Telegraph, Blair promised Adrian Nastase h
Slovakia's former authoritarian prime minister edged out the expected favourite in the presidential election and advanced to a second round against a former political ally, according to preliminary results released today. Vladimir Meciar, whose rule was
By Gavin Cordon The Scotsman
At least 10 gunmen stormed into a police station in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi, killing five policemen and wounding one after demanding the officers recite Islamic verses. One of the attackers died in the shoot-out near the airport in the city,
Tsvetnitsa-Vrabnitsa (Palm Sunday) is one of the biggest Bulgarian holidays, rich in a variety of customs, songs and melodies.
At least three suspects in the Madrid railway bombings blew themselves up Saturday as police prepared to storm their apartment. One special forces agent was killed in the explosion and 15 police officers were wounded.
Alleged Bulgarian mobster Nikolay Dobrev was wounded late on Saturday evening in Sofia, local bTV reported. Dobrev was hospitalized and his life is out of risk.
Bulgaria's capital Sofia was rocked by a street parade dedicated to the country's NATO entry. Twenty-six pigeons were released in the sky to symbolize the countries members of the North Atlantic Alliance.
The report on the reasons for the withdrawing of the six Bulgarian soldiers from Karbala will be ready in a week.
The Union of Free Democrats (UFD), the Bulgarian Agrarian National Council and Bulgaria's nationalistic VMRO gathered today to discuss future cooperation. Representatives of the three rightist parties agreed that they need to boost cooperation in order t
The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) needs clear agenda dealing with the nation's greatest problems for the upcoming elections, Georgi Pirinski, BSP deputy chairman, said. He pointed out that the country's economy is deveoping at a too slow speed and expl
US troops detained a bodyguard and nine relatives of Ezzat Ibrahim al-Duri, who was a top aide to ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and is still on the run, a family member said. On February 24, US-led coalition forces captured three men linked to Dur
French police found explosives said to belong to the outlawed Basque separatist group ETA near the border with Spain. French police made the discovery after the capture of two important ETA members just a day earlier in southwestern France.
Peter Liversidge, a British painter, made a public presentation in Sofia. His works are part of "Multiplication"- a touring exhibition of 62 multiples by 46 artists.
Pakistan army helicopter dropped leaflets in a remote tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, urging tribesmen to help capture suspected al-Qaeda fugitives. The leaflets, in both Urdu and Pashto language, were dropped Friday in South Waziristan, t
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