France's President Jacques Chirac sent Monday a letter of condolence to his Bulgarian counterpart Georgi Parvanov over the deadly attacks that took place in the Iraqi city of Karbala on December 27. The bombings claimed the lives of five soldiers from the
On its December 29 session, the Benghazi Criminal Court fixed January 12, 2004 as the date for next hearing of the HIV infection case against the six Bulgarian medics. They were accused of deliberately infecting some 400 Libyan children with HIV at the B
Bulgarian soldiers in the Iraqi city of Karbala have left the India military base that was attacked by a suicide bomber on Saturday. The camp won't be used anymore, Gen.
Saddam Hussein has revealed the names of people who run his secret accounts in foreign banks, during recent interrogation, ITAR-TASS reported. That information is said to be of great importance to investigators.
Survivors and rescuers in Iran's historic city of Bam were shaken by two frightening aftershocks on Monday morning that caused some of the few remaining walls to tumble and left a rising cloud of dust over the remains of the city's ancient fortress. More
A strong offshore earthquake rattled Japan's northernmost main island. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
Sofia Airport is closed because of the thick fog in Bulgaria's capital. Most of the incoming flights will land in the other two major airports in the Black Sea cities of Burgas and Varna.
So far no one from the soldiers from the second Bulgarian unit that is to leave for Iraq in January has stated a desire to leave, Bulgaria's Deputy Defense Minister Ilko Dimitrov said. His statement came just two days after the deadly attacks in the holy
The condition of the four Bulgarian soldiers that were most heavily wounded in the Karbala attacks and their lives were said to be at risk are now getting better, General Stoyan Tonev, director of the Military-Medical Academy in Sofia, said Monday.
5 suspects have been arrested on Sunday in connection to the Karbala attacks that claimed 19 lives, including those of 5 Bulgarian soldiers, said Lt. Rafal Smilkowski of the Polish regiment that commands a multinational force in south-central Iraq.
The World Health Organization said it wants samples from China's suspected SARS case sent to labs overseas for testing because local tests have been inconclusive. Meanwhile, health departments throughout China stepped up anti-SARS measures, days after aut
An extreme nationalist party allied to indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic won Serbia's parliamentary elections but failed to get the majority needed to govern, official preliminary results show. Milosevic and three other Balkan war crimes suspects w
The six Bulgarian medics accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV will stand before the Criminal Court in the town of Benghazi on Monday for the tenth time. On the previous session of the court only three of them stood befor
Roadside bombs in separate guerrilla attacks killed two US soldiers and two Iraqi children, including one explosion that went off in a densely populated part of Baghdad. Hundreds of weeping and wailing mourners buried victims of an attack the day before i
Some of the casualties caused by Saturday's attacks in Karbala could be avoided if there was a higher number of coalition troops in the city, Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg said Sunday after arriving back to Bulgaria. Saxe-Coburg spent the l
The UK tightened air travel security following US decision to increase terror alert level, the British government announced on Sunday. They explained that the new measures were a "responsible and prudent step".
Five Bulgarian soldiers died after insurgents attacked several sites in the Iraqi city of Karbala on December 27. The attackers targeted two camps of the 480-strong Bulgarian unit, as well as the municipality building.
Bulgaria will allot BGN 20,000 to each of the families of the five Bulgarian soldiers who died after Saturday's attacks in the Iraqi city of Karbala, Cabinet members decided Sunday. Those who were wounded will receive BGN 5,000 each, so that they could c
Bulgaria's Cabinet decided for December 30 to be declared Day of Mourning over those who died after Saturday's attacks in the Iraqi city of Karbala, where a 480-Bulgarian unit was deployed. Four Bulgarian soldiers died in the attacks, another one died on
Lieutenant Nikolay Angelov Saruev was born on March 26, 1977 in the Bulgarian town of Krumovgrad. He graduated the Vassil Levski military school.
Bulgarians will pay last respect to the soldiers, who were killed in the deadly suicide bombings in Karbala, on December 30 in the Central Military Club in Sofia. Afterwards the bodies will be flown to the home towns of the soldiers, where they will be bu
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