A total of 1 kilograms and 860 grams of marijuana were seized at Kalotina border checkpoint by the Bulgarian customs. The drug was found stuck to the inside of the jacket of a Bulgarian who was traveling on a bus to Italy.
European Commission President Romano Prodi said a two-speed Europe might turn into a necessity if EU leaders fail to agree on a new constitution this year.
Iranian religious conservatives have been all-but confirmed as winners of controversial parliamentary polls, which many reformist politicians view as rigged. Friday's vote drew a record low turnout, with the interior ministry saying that just over 50 perc
Insurgents in southern Afghanistan have fired at a helicopter carrying workers from a U.S.
Greek Intralot, part of Intracom group, was awarded the exclusive 8-year license to operate all State Lottery games in Malta following an international tender and two years of negotiations. Maltco Lotteries Limited has been established, in which Intralot
Ralph Nader, a consumer advocate and former Green Party presidential candidate, announced Sunday he will run for president as an independent in the 2004 election. "After careful thought and my desire to retire our supremely selected president, I've decide
Bulgarians celebrate "Sirni Zagovezni", a popular Christian Orthodox holiday in Bulgaria, which takes place seven weeks before Easter and marks the beginning of the Great Lent, the longest period of fasting throughout the year.
By David Johnson The New York Times
Government forensic investigators examining how terrorists manufacture improvised explosives have found indications of a global bomb-making network, and have concluded that Islamic militant bomb builders have used the same designs for car bombs in Africa,
Unidentified insurgents set on fire a pipeline near the holy Iraqi town of Karbala on Sunday, AFP reported. This is said to be the first sabotage of this type south of the capital of Baghdad after the regime of Saddam Hussein over overthrown in April las
Three loud explosions were heard Sunday morning in western Baghdad. The blasts are believed to be controlled explosions of munitions left behind by the former army under the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Polish military escort vehicles came under shell fire Saturday night, northeast of the holy Iraqi town of Karbala, where Bulgarian troops are deployed, DPA reported.
Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov congratulated Sunday Bulgaria's best biathlon runner Ekaterina Dafovska on the golden medal that she swept at the European Championship, hosted in Byelorussia's capital Minsk. The victory proved your high standing on t
Bulgaria's capital Sofia was illuminated for the fourth time by a glittering Vienna Ball on February 21, organized with the assistance and under the auspices of H.E.
Bulgarian Parliamentary Speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov started a visit to Turkey on Sunday as the official guest of Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc. On Monday after visiting the Mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Founder of the modern and secular Republic
Several MPs from the faction inside Bulgaria's biggest right-wing party Union of Democratic Force, who coalesced around former Bulgaria's Prime Minister Ivan Kostov announced their decision to leave the party. Earlier on Sunday Dimitur Abadzhiev, former d
Dimitur Abadzhiev, former deputy chairman of the parliamentary group of the right-wing United Democratic Forces, has left the party Union of Democratic Forces, it emerged on the second day of UDF National Conference. Abadzhiev boycotted the extraordinary
Despite its good financial status the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC) is the laggard-behind of all telecom operators in Europe, Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister Nikolay Vassilev told the Bulgarian National Radio on Sunday.
Unidentified remnants from a rescue boat and a belt were detected on Sunday some 2 kilometres southwest of the Turkish town of Karaburun as Turkish divers resumed their search operation for survivors aboard the sunk Hera cargo ship, together with a 22-str
US and British special forces have cornered Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a mountainous area in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border, the Sunday Express newspaper reported. The newspaper cites "a US intelligence source," according to whom
Nadezhda Mihaylova was born on 9 August 1962 in Sofia. Married, with two daughters.
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