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.
Two people died after a car tried to go through the barriers and a train hit it at a high speed. The accident took place Friday afternoon near the Bulgarian city Pernik, 30km of capital Sofia.
Illegal traffic of amphetamines from Bulgaria to Turkey and the Middle East is on the rise, Customs Agency and the Interior Ministry say in an analysis of drug traffic combat. Data shows that the number of Bulgarians, who serve as couriers, is also incre
I am no successor of Konstantin Dimitrov dubbed Samokoivetsa, as he had a family, well-known "underworld" figure in the country Anton Miltenov, dubbed Klyuna (The Beak) told local Darik Radio. Samokovetsa who was killed in broad daylight on December 6 at
Poland will reduce the number of its soldiers in Iraq as well as the tasks it is currently carrying out in 2005, the country's President Aleksander Kwasniewski said at a press conference on Friday. At present there are a total of 2, 400 Polish soldiers i
A team of Japanese soldiers left for Iraq Friday as police, on alert for terrorist attacks, tightened security ahead of what may become Japan's riskiest overseas military mission since World War II, Reuters informed. After a series of send-off ceremonies
Yet another 76 soldiers from the 480-strong Bulgarian unit deployed in the Iraqi city of Karbala returned to Sofia early on Friday as another 157 soldiers from the replacement unit left for Kuwait a day earlier. Thursday marked the beginning of the rotati
A grand concert took place in the Bulgaria Musical Hall Friday night upon the 100-th anniversary celebration of Ljubomir Pipkov Musical School, organized under the aegis of Culture Minister Bozhidar Abrashev. The oldest music educational institution in B
Bulgaria's gross foreign debt in November 2003 amounted to USD 12.617 B in that way marking an increase of USD 1.
Greece is not likely to impose temporary visa restrictions for Bulgarian citizens during the Olympic Games in Athens, Deputy Foreign Minister Katya Todorova told the Bulgarian National Radio on Friday after much talk over the week of an imminent introduct
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