US administration officials insisted Monday that the Iraq war was justified, but promised to order a careful review of pre-war intelligence, International Herald Tribune wrote. Accusations raged after the outgoing U.
Bulgaria still drags leg with stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination practices against minority groups, particularly Roma, as well as against immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), Counc
Six people have been killed, another seven wounded in an attack onto a Georgian village near the border with its breakaway region of Abkhazia, local officials reported. The attack was the first serious incident since President Mikhail Saakashvili took ove
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said he was willing to send a mission to Iraq to assess whether elections can be held by the middle of the year, Aljazeera online edition reported. But a team would only be sent after an evaluation of security risks, said A
The second flight from Kuwait, which had to bring back to Bulgaria the rest of 77 first contingent troops Monday night, has been cancelled due to security measures, private bTV channel informed, citing Bulgarian Army's General Staff. Army officials have
Turkish consortium Tepe-Akfen-Vie plans to build a business center and a five-star hotel in Bulgaria, Turkish Hurriyet wrote. The hotel will rise in capital Sofia, and its construction is expected to cost some USD 25 M.
Bulgarian Nikolay Burnazov, who has been wanted by the police, is ready to give himself up, local Darik radio said Tuesday. Burnazov is said to have been a close friend of late Konstantin Dimitrov a.
Hungarian football was shocked by the loss of forward Miklos Feher, who died after collapsing on the field during a Benfica match against Vitoria Guimaraes in Portugal, world media reported.
One Iraqi policeman has been killed after a group of armed men attacked a hotel in the Iraqi city of Karbala late on Monday evening. The building hosted Polish soldiers, but none of them got injured.
A building in the residential and commercial area of Nasr City in Cairo, Egypt collapsed and killed at least fourteen people, injuring some 40. The building was demolished by a fire that broke in a storeroom.
By Paul Wood BBC correspondent in Benghazi, Libya
The six Bulgarian medics that are accused of deliberately spreading the HIV virus at a Benghazi hospital might be released as soon as next month, BBC correspondent in Benghazi Paul Wood said. His words come after on Monday the Benghazi Criminal Court hea
A six-year-old Thai boy has died of bird flu at a hospital in thel Phitsanulok province, some 370 kilometres north of Bangkok. This is the country's second bird flu victim, with the first one being another boy at the same age.
An extension of EUR 220,000 for improving labour conditions in Bulgaria's textile factories have been allotted by the European Commission and the head offices of Nike, Adidas-Salomon, Levi's and H&M, PARI Daily wrote on Tuesday. The allotment will improv
BG Radio swept Bulgaria's Radio Oscar 2003 - the award Sirak Skitnik, given out to private radio stations for contributing to Bulgarian culture by the state Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) every year. This is the second time the award is given to the best
The American AES company has secured EUR 1 B in a bid to finance construction of a new production facility at Bulgaria's Maritsa Iztok-1 thermal power plant, Joachim Lyschik, who is the local construction coordinator of subcontracting Alstom, stated. The
Bulgarian companies will have the opportunity to build up, along with other subcontractors, the duty free zone between Iraq and Kuwait, it became known on Monday, following the recent international expo Iraq Reconstruction 2004, held in Kuwait. Bulgaria'
No poultry from Thailand has been imported into Bulgaria after January 10, Bulgaria's National Veterinary Service announced. On January 16 the Cabinet ruled a ban on imports from the Far East in relation with the burst of bird flu in Thailand.
The unique ancient and medieval sanctuary of Perperikon, situated in the Eastern part of the Rhodopes Mountains, failed to be among the short-listed applicants for EU funds financing, local Bulgaria radio reported on Monday. The municipality of Kardjali,
The British geological company Hereward Ventures have found gold deposits nearby Bulgaria's South-Eastern Rhodopes town of Rozino, Dow Johnes agency reported on Monday.
By EUObserver In her new book, Danish Liberal EU spokesperson Charlotte Antonsen questions the use of referenda as a useful way to build up European democracy.
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