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
A light tremor was registered at 12:19 p.m.
Bulgaria's best gymnast Jordan Jovtchev was declared World's Best Gymnast for 2003 by the International Gymnastics Federation.
Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov urged that the country's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg, the Parliamentary Speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov and Parvanov himself stated a common position on the peer review on Bulgaria's only nuclear plant in the town of K
Consultations between Bulgaria's ruling Simeon II National Movement (SIINM) and its junior coalition partner Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) on the 2004 budget will continue until the beginning of next week, MRF's leader Ahmed Dogan said before the
Bulgarian police in the southern towns Stara Zagora and Kazanlak busted a criminal gang dealing with arms traffic and production. Three Bulgarians were detained in the police operation that took place December 3 and 4.
In the next few weeks I will withdraw from the post of Bulgarian deputy finance minister, Krassimir Katev said on Friday, confirming once again the decision he had announced before.
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