We all see that Bulgaria's Cabinet is either unable or unwilling to fight crime in the country, former Bulgarian Prime Minister Ivan Kostov told in an interview for the TV channel Nova Televisia. He also added that his Cabinet acknowledged the crime in t
Wine-lovers in Sofia had the chance for the very first time to taste the 2003 New Beaujolais harvest at the Tsentralni Hali shopping mall on Friday evening. Sofia public as well as many foreign ambassadors to Bulgaria enjoyed the official wine testing ac
Bulgarian Central Bank will put up for sale the first 100 banknotes of BGN 100 at the price of BGN 300, Rumyan Chobanov, the bank's main cashier said on Saturday. He also explained that the main aim of the launching of the new banknotes is to improve the
At least 15 Afghans were injured in a bomb blast in the centre of the southern city of Kandahar, which police blamed on Taliban militants. The explosion destroyed five shops and shattered windows in nearby stores and hotels.
Customs officers from the town of Varna launched a check into the ten containers with cigarettes on the Bulgaria-flagged Elena ship, aboard which a sailor killed two of his fellow crewmembers, as there were claims that the ship was a part of a smuggling c
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk for an unannounced visit. Rumsfeld is said to make a first-hand assessment of the military and political situation in the country.
China is ready to host the annual Miss World beauty pageant later on Saturday for the first time. Organiser say some two billion people around the world are expected to watch the competition, which will take place on China's tropical island of Hainan.
Russia will not be scared by terror attacks after a bomb on a commuter train killed 42 mainly young people, President Vladimir Putin has said. Over 200 people, mostly students going to classes, were injured in the blast that took place Friday morning.
Legends Saxon, Doro and Circle II Circle rocked Friday evening the fully packed Winter Palace in Sofia as they threw a major concert. The bands were in Sofia to take part in the X-mass Metal Meeting of the festival Arena Muzika Winter 2003, organized by
FBI plans to open an office in Bulgaria, Roderick Beverly, Special Agent in Charge, Office of International Operations told Bulgaria's Interior Chief Secretary Boyko Borissov, who was on a visit to the US. The two officials have discussed fight in terror
Iceland's Parliament has ratified the NATO-entry protocols of Bulgaria and six other aspirants to join the Alliance - Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia and Slovenia, it emerged on Friday. This makes a total of 15 countries that have ratified
Bulgaria's Defense Ministry signed on Friday a contract for the delivery of seven aircrafts Pilatus to the Bulgarian Air Forces from Switzerland. Six of the planes are trainers.
I am not guilty, a lot of bad things happened on the ship, Bulgarian sailor Petar Popov, who is suspected of killing two fellow crewmembers and injuring the captain onboard of Bulgaria-flagged Elena ship, said Friday. The drama took place while the vesse
One person was killed and two others were badly injured in a heavy car crash that took place at noon near the Bulgarian town of Dupnitza. A truck that tried to overtake another vechicle rammed into a microbus and into another car.
In the end of March 2004, NATO will check the readiness of Bulgaria's pursuit aviation to meet the Alliance's standards, Bulgarian military official said on Friday. The check will be carried out by a special NATO commission.
Chief of Bulgaria's State Reserve and Military Supplies agency Stanislav Kokarov was dismissed on Thursday from his post following the suggestion of Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg. The news was broken on Friday by Bulgaria's Economy Minister Lidiya S
Bulgarian national Bisser Nikolov, aged 35, was sentenced to 6 years in jail on charges of leading a crime gang involved with a number of robberies in the UK, BBC reported on Friday. The infringers, described as extremely skilled in safe breaking, have c
More than 30% of Bulgaria's people display symptoms of some mental disorder because they are stressed by reforms carried out en route to a democratic state, survey of the Health Ministry shows. People have grown more aggressive, and suicide attempts becam
I am convinced that Bulgaria will enter the European Union (EU) in 2007, Latvia's President Vaira Vike Freiberga said Friday. On the same day the top guest visited Bulgaria's second city of Plovdiv, and left the country later in the afternoon.
Over EUR 1 B have been invested in Bulgaria's energy sector in 2003, the country's Energy Minister Milko Kovachev announced on Friday during a parliamentary session. Kovachev said that the Energy Ministry is actively working on the execution of the major
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