Alerting Bulgaria
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By Polia Alexandrova Transitions Online
Only a lack of technical expertise is stopping al-Qaeda from carrying out a chemical or biological attack, a United Nations report has warned. The report said al-Qaeda ideology had continued to spread, raising the spectre of further attacks.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder headed to China's southern and western regions, after talks in Beijing in which both countries reaffirmed their commitment to building closer economic and strategic ties. Boosting trade between one of the world's bigges
UK Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram started on Monday a two-day official visit to Bulgaria at the invitation of his Bulgarian colleague Ilko Dimitrov. Bulgaria's preparations for NATO accession, its contribution to the fight against terror and participat
NATO will consider the option of Bulgaria becoming full NATO member prior to the Alliance summit in Istanbul in June 2004. This assurance was given on Monday by the Netherlands' Foreign Minister and future NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer afte
Turkey's government linked directly last month's deadly bombings with al-Qaida. "According to the information we have right now, both those who were involved in these terrorist attacks as suicide bombers, and those who had relations with them, seem close
The services at France's Embassy and Consulate in Sofia were not affected by the unprecedented strike that French diplomats staged over budget cuts on Monday. People can get visas and other services, the Bulgarian News Agency reported, citing Georgi Zhel
The chairman of Sofia municipal council Vladimir Kisyov is to launch an investigation into the controversial transfer of municipal real estate property assets with a combined area of 54,000 sq m, which was disclosed by local media over the weekend.
Legal control on the work of the administration should not be limited groundlessly for it is a guarantee that the law is observed by state bodies and for defense of citizens' rights and interests, Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov said in his speech on
Bulgaria will participate in the European Union (EU) financing with three payments, amounting to from 0.9 % to 1.
We hope concession contract for the airports in Varna and Burgas to be signed until the end of 2004, Bulgaria's Deputy Transport Minister, Nikola Yankov, said. Yankov pointed that the draft bill for the civil aviation was expected to be tabled in Parliam
A parliamentary committee of inquiry in Lithuania was set to publish a damning report that is expected to open the way to President Rolandas Paksas' impeachment in a corruption scandal. The committee was set up a month ago after allegations in a security
By Charles Arthur The Independent
By the end of this month Bulgaria will greenlight or reject a proposed termination of the contract with Russia's RSK MiG for repair works of Bulgaria's MiG-29 fighter aircraft, said in Bulgaria's second biggest town of Plovdiv Tsonko Kirov, MP of the ruli
The new hit of the Bulgarian pop star Irina Florin "Different" was broadcasted for the first time on Monday at 8.30 a.
Bulgaria's Chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which it will assume from the Netherlands as of January 1, will not be easy and routine, Yan Kubish, OSCE Secretary General, told Bulgarian journalists as the 11th
A total of 902 contracts with candidates and potential candidates for European Union funding have been signed over the three years of existence of the SAPARD agency in Bulgaria. The total value of the contracted investments has amounted at BGN 677 M.
A team of senior Japanese officials is on its way to Iraq to investigate an ambush that killed two Japanese diplomats near Tikrit. There are differing accounts of Saturday's attack with initial reports indicated the diplomats and their driver were killed
Millions of Indians will vote on Monday to elect four new state assemblies in balloting seen as a litmus test of popularity for India's ruling Hindu nationalists ahead of general elections in 2004. Some 94 million adults are eligible to vote in the states
"For the first time in more than a hundred years of conflict a detailed and comprehensive solution was agreed upon which settles the most critical issues of this conflict," the Palestinian and Israeli negotiators said in a statement, meaning the unofficia
An international conference dedicated to the hospital reforms started December 1 in Sofia to end December 2. On the first day of the conference Josep Figueras, Head of the Secretariat and a Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Care Syst
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