Lieutenant -colonel Petko Marinov, commander of the Bulgarian soldiers in Karbala as well as one of the governors of the holy Shia city declined all allegations that the Bulgarian soldiers in Karbala have been betrayed by the Polish command. Marinov's fa
Swiss chocolate giant is going to promote new products on Bulgarian market, including baby nutrients, ice cream and bottled mineral water, General Director of Nestle Sofia Yanis Lazaridis announced.
On January 6th the Bulgarian people celebrate Epiphany or St. Jordan's Day.
Nicole Kidman will be a presenter at the 76th Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday. Kidman won the best-actress Oscar last year for The Hours.
The Sofia Water joint-stock company, Bulgarian capital's sewage and water-supply services monopolist, demanded for a 26% increase of water prices in the city. However, that proposal has not been approved yet, mayor Stefan Sofianski said.
Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan reached a breakthrough agreement on Tuesday to open talks, probably in February, following an ice-breaking meeting between Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the s
Four people were injured in a Sofia service-station fire on Tuesday, three of them had to be taken to the Emergency Institute Pirogov. The lives of all four, however, are not at risk.
French divers may have detected a signal from the flight recorder of the Egyptian plane which crashed into the Red Sea, international agencies reported on Tuesday. The depth of the signal had yet to be determined.
There has been a mighty blast in the center of Baghdad, which comes third for today, following reports about two earlier explosions, reported Russian information agency RIA Novosti.
Every Bulgarian will need at minimum BGN 360 for his monthly subsistence during 2004, Bulgarian Trade Union Podkrepa announced. According to the presented estimations, further price increase of some indispensable goods will result in consumption drop.
Plamena Yordanova, a model of VISAGES Model Group, is the face of the December issue of Thai fashion magazine Madame Figaro. Plamena has been in Thailand for a month, working for the local APPLE fashion agency.
Over the past year, credits totalling more than BGN 42 M were allotted to small enterprises in Bulgaria under Social Ministry's "Guarantee Fund for Micro Crediting" project, a report of the Ministry showed. The exact number of credits granted is 4,104, a
Bulgarian peacekeeping infantry battalion in Iraq will complete its mission before 2006, along with all coalition forces, British defense expert and military analyst Paul Beaver stated in an interview for the Bulgarian section of BBC. He pointed out that
Syria will not discard its weapons of mass distruction, unless Israel does the same with its nuclear potential, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview for British Daily Telegraph, cited by RIA Novosti. This is the first time that Syria conf
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi announced the will of his country to restore diplomatic ties with Egypt, disrupted for more than 20 years, reported world agencies. His statement came as Tehran's city council voted to rename a street be
The newly prepared report of 12 Libyan doctors in the Benghazi HIV trial is simply a detail of that trial, Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lyubomir Todorov said Tuesday. He underlined that the importance of the report's contents should neither be ov
Sofia City Court launched the hearing of the case against the alleged Bulgarian bank fraudster Ivan Mironov, former Balkanbank director. The investigation initiated in Bulgaria against Mironov in connection with Balkanbank bankruptcy was completed in 20
Colonel Kircho Kirov, who is now acting chief of the National Investigation Service, will be nominated for a standing position and for a higher military degree, the ministerial spokesperson announced Monday. President Georgi Parvanov has to approve his c
An estimated 23 million people from countries where visas are required for US visits will this year have to give a digital fingerprint and have a photograph taken under the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology, or US-VISIT. Only
Fifteen peopel mostly children, were killed and 11 others injured after a powerful explosion in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesay morning. Witnesses said the blast ripped through a truck parked opposite a military base in the center of the ci
Tuesday is the last day for submitting documents of candidates to run at the presidential elections in Russia in March, informed Russian media. Up to this moment, there are eight registered nominees, including the current president Vladimir Putin, two bus
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