A 23-member Bulgarian rescue squad leaves for Iran on Saturday, after a day earlier the country was hit by a severe earthquake and many are still believed to be under the ruins. The quake, measuring 6.
The first shipment of humanitarian aid from Bulgaria to Iran will be ready on Saturday, Bulgarian officials said on December 26. Economy Minister Lidiya Shuleva has also ordered for every opportunity to send aid to Iran to be taken.
Traffic along Bulgaria's main thoroughfares has been restored after some roads were blocked due to heavy snowfall, media reported on Friday. However, there are still numerous villages left with cut phone lines and no electricity.
None of the Bulgarian soldiers in the Iraqi city of Karbala have been injured in Friday's attacks against a police station near the city, Bulgarian Darik radio said later on the same day. There are no reports of any people hurt in the attack.
At least 90 people died when a Benin aircraft crashed into the sea just after take-off, officials said. The plane carried more than 160 people, with most of the passengers being Lebanese families headed for holiday visits in Beirut.
In 2003, Bulgaria has allotted BGN 2.5 M for the making of seven films, local Dnevnik daily wrote.
A police station in the area near the Iraqi cities of Karbala and Hindiya, some 80 kilometers from capital Baghdad, came under missile attack on Friday. The attack caused some material damages, but there are no reports of any people injured.
The number of people killed in the severe earthquake that devastated the Iranian town of Bam could reach 40,000, local radio station said on Friday. The tremor, measuring 6.
A Romanian bus overturned Friday on a slippery road near the Bulgarian village of Vetren, about 25 kilometers north of the city of Stara Zagora, the Bulgarian National Radio reported. There is still no official information about how many people were on
Some 40 Japanese soldiers have left for Iraq to carry out a humanitarian mission, Japanese media reported. The country also plans to send about 1,000 troops to the war-torn country, as part of the coalition forces there.
Severe earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale shook southeastern Iran on Friday, with local media saying there were many casualties.
A couple of flights to and from Sofia Airport have been canceled on December 25. The reason is low number of passengers, as most of Bulgaria's people are celebrating Christmas, one of the major Christian and family holidays.
At least four Israelis were killed in a suicide blast that took place on December 25 in Tel Aviv, with the bomber also believed to be dead. The attack follows an Israeli raid in Gaza city that left at least five people dead and injured seven.
A bomb exploded on December 25 at a United Nations (UN) compound in Afghanistan. There are no casualties.
Dozens of people are feared dead after a plane crashed in Benin on Thursday, police officials said. The plane took off from Cotonou and was headed for Beirut.
French authorities said Thursday they have found little evidence of plans to use US-bound aircraft to launch attacks against US targets over Christmas. However, Air France services to and from Los Angeles remained suspended on Christmas day because of fe
Border policemen near the Bulgarian village of Golemanovo have seized 12 Afghan refugees who tried to illegally pass the country's border. In about an hour and a half, one Algerian and two men from Tunisia were also seized.
Investigators in the Bulgarian coastal city of Varna have requested for sailor Petar Popov, suspected of killing two fellow crewmembers onboard of Bulgaria-flagged Elena ship, to stay at the mental health center he was sent about a month ago. The Elena s
A crashed cistern spilled some 20 tones of oil residue on its way between the Bulgarian towns of Ihtiman and Samokov. The vehicle now hangs over a 30-meter deep precipice, and there is a risk of tumbling down.
A missile hit the building of Turkey's embassy in Iraq on December 25, Christmas day. The attack claimed no lives, but rammed into the embassy's fence and left a hole of 30 centimeters in diameter.
"Save us from the wars and armed conflicts which lay waste to whole areas of the world," Pope John Paul II said in his Christmas message at the famous St Peter's Square in Rome. Huge crowds of people flocked to the site to listen to the pontiff's traditi
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