The second infantry unit Bulgaria sent on a peacekeeping mission to Karbala is facing more dangers than their colleagues from the first troops, Chief of Military Information Service Mayor-General Plamen Studenkov said to a local radio broadcast on Saturda
Bulgaria should not present statistics on the agriculture growth dating back to the beginning of the 90s, when production and tilled land areas were larger than in the present, EU Commissioner on Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries Franz Fischler
Russian military bases ought to be withdrawn from Georgian territory, still developing constructive relations with Russia, acting Georgian president Nino Burjanadze told journalists on Saturday. She expressed hope that the pullout dates would be coordinat
Bulgarian policemen revealed and confiscated some gas pistols customized for battle from a car with three passengers, detained in the region of Stara Zagora, some 200 km east of capital Sofia, officials announced.
Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates St. Anthony's Day on January 17.
Three Lebanese men sentenced to death for murder were executed at dawn in the first use of the death penalty here for nearly six years, an official source said. The executions were carried out despite pleas for clemency from human rights movements, the Eu
Bulgaria's Evgenia Radanova swept Friday the golden medal on 1,500 m at the European Short Track Championship 2004 at Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. She finished for 2:48.
A road toll for vehicles of up to 8 seats will be paid as from January 1, 2005, Bulgaria Parliament adopted on an extraordinary session on Saturday. The new Roads Act provides that all drivers pay highway tolls per distance, as well as another tolls for m
A roadside bomb detonated north of Baghdad on Saturday killed three US soldiers and two Iraqi civil defence troopers, AP reported. The deaths bring to 500 the number of American service members who have died since the Iraq conflict began on March 20.
I cannot say we have hit the best possible moment for negotiating with the European Union, Bulgarian EU Affairs Minister Meglena Kuneva said to a local radio broadcast on Saturday. She indicated the current challenges the EU faces, including discords ove
Colonel Qaddafi has been buying complete sets of uranium enrichment centrifuges on the international black market as the central element in his secret nuclear bomb programme, the British Guardian read on Saturday. The ease with which the complex bomb-maki
Two Chinese people suspected of having SARS were confirmed as having had the flu-like disease, but one has recovered and the other was in stable condition, China's health ministry said Saturday. Both cases were in the southern province of Guangdong, where
Dutch police is approaching a second suspect on the ostentatious murder of Bulgarian underworld boss Konstantin Dimitrov, dubbed Samokovetsa, the defender of the alleged murderer Erwin W. stated, cited by a Bulgarian local radio.
French marines drove one of the four new hydrophone buoys in search for the black boxes of the Flash Airline charter plane which crashed shortly after take-off from Sharm El-Sheikh and killed all 148 people aboard. One box has been taken off waters, the o
The deadly December 27 attack aimed to cause the multinational forces in Iraq to withdraw, lieutenant-colonel Stoil Chipilski, one of the wounded soldiers, told Bulgarian National Television. He explained that the same reason lies behind all attacks in I
Bulgaria will export to Germany rose-oil worth EUR 3 M for a period of 5 years, Bulgaria's Deputy Agriculture Minister Meglena Plugchieva announced at the Green Week Expo in Berlin. The only condition for the export is that the roses are not genetically
Sofia District Court decided on Friday to sentence to 15 years in jail Gosho Georgiev and Blagoi Blagoev and to 5 years Tihomir Georgiev over drug possession. The three men were detained in connection to a special drug produce laboratory in the village of
Michael Jackson pleaded innocent on Friday to child-molestation charges that could send him to prison - and was scolded by the judge for being 21 minutes late for his first court appearance. Jackson nodded when asked if he understood the charges and said
The new report in the case against the six Bulgarian medics accused of deliberately infecting some 400 Libyan children with HIV will be ready by the next hearing scheduled for January 26. The news was broken by Bulgaria's Justice Minister Anton Stankov on
Iranian officials say they now believe at least 41,000 people were killed in last month's devastating earthquake. The final number could still be revised, perhaps reaching 45,000, said Mohamed Mohamadi Kalbaykani, a senior aide to Iran's supreme leader.
The nine cities hoping to stage the Olympic Games in 2012 have begun unveiling details of their bids. Paris, the favourite, was first to launch its candidacy, with a glitzy ceremony at the Eiffel Tower on Friday.
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