Bulgaria observes a national day of mourning on December 30 over the five Bulgarian soldiers who died after Saturday's attacks in the Iraqi city of Karbala. National flag is hoisted at half-mast on this day.
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Bulgarian Embassies abroad have received signals for terror threats over the last six months, Foreign Minister Passy said in an interview for local Trud Daily.
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"The way the soldier talked to us is disrespectful. The way they treat us is very bad.
Natural gas prices in Bulgaria will be decreased by 9% from the beginning of next year, the state Energy Regulation Commission decided. The decrease is due to the US dollar's lowering exchange rate, as well as the fact that alternative fuels' prices on i
One of the Bulgarian soldiers wounded in Karbala on Saturday is currently undergoing surgery in Germany, director of the Military-Medical Academy in Sofia Brigadier-General Stoyan Tonev said Monday. He, however, refused to name the soldier, but said that
Bulgaria's Military Prosecutor's Office launched an inquest on the deadly attacks that struck the Iraqi city of Karbala on Saturday. Five suspects have been arrested so far in connection to the series of car bomb, mortar and machine gun attacks that stru
A bomb went off at or near an office of the Civil Defense service in the Sofia district of Dianabad, witnesses told Novinite.com.
A powerful explosion rocked Iraq's capital Baghdad at about 04:35 p.m.
We find no words to express our feelings after the barbaric attack that killed five of our compatriots, Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov, Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg and parliament speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov said in a special statement distribute
At a special ceremony at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, ten of Bulgaria's policemen were awarded the yearly Policeman of the Year prize. Officers from across the country applied for the award, and were evaluated by a special committee.
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.
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