Turkish engineer Hasan Onal who was kidnapped by the Taleban in Afghanistan last month was released on Sunday morning. The man himself has told authorities he was well.
There are three main tasks for Bulgaria on its way to becoming a full European Union (EU) member, Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy said Sunday. First, we have to insist on closing pre-accession negotiations in 2004, as previously agreed, Passy e
Bulgarian chocolate producer Stancho Kolev, who runs a factory in the town of Gabrovo, now moves to build a mill in Vietnam, the entrepreneur himself told Bulgarian Dnevnik daily.
Using plastic bottles for liquor drinks when the bottle has a capacity of more than one liter will be banned in Bulgaria from the beginning of next year, according to a fresh law amendment. Liquor producers will also have to face new requirements concern
The "Give Life The Green Light" campaign, that was launched Saturday by Bulgarian children, rolled into its second day with a special event at the Zaimov park in capital Sofia. There, passer-bys were encouraged to add their opinions to a special list of r
Footballers at Bulgaria's national team will face those of Italy, Denmark and Sweden in the European Championship 2004 finals. Many of the Bulgarian football experts were rather discouraged by the news, as the other three countries in the group are seen
There are some 56 Bulgarian people that were infected with the HIV in 2003, compared to 43 last year, expert told the Bulgarian National Radio on Sunday. According to official data, there are 458 HIV-positive in the country at the moment, and some 190 ha
Local section of Bulgaria's leftist Socialists Party in the town of Plovdiv called for the resignation of Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg, after it became clear that the closure of N-plant's units 3,4 could not be re-negotiated. It is impossible to reo
Young Bulgarian beauty Nevena Belcheva, born in the coastal town of Varna, won Saturday evening the Visages Models 2003 contest - one of the long anticipated fashion events in the country. On the stage of the glamorous show, Belcheva wore a dress designe
Three men were arrested in connection to Saturday's murder of 24-year-old Boris Arsov, Bulgaria's Interior Ministry Chief Secreatry Gen. Boyko Borrisov said Sunday.
The Movement for Rights and Freedom (MRF) is not in control of any drug-smuggling channels, MP from the party Kemal Eyup said Sunday. The ethnic-Turks dominated party is member of Bulgaria's ruling coalition.
Two Japanese diplomats were shot dead as they stopped for food near the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit on Saturday. In another ambush earlier on the same day, seven Spanish agents were killed south of capital Baghdad.
Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov, who swept this year's prestigious Man of the Year award, received the special prize at a ceremony on Saturday evening. The president was gifted a unique, hand-made sword from organizers at the Club M magazine.
Despite raids against suspected Al-Qaeda members and associates around the globe, its commanders are unscathed, and planning new attacks against US targets, USA Today has said. That conclusion was reportedly made after phone-lines tapping and questioning
A special exhibition of various cat breeds took place in Sofia on Saturday, with more than 120 animals taking part in the show. The "models" were divided into four categories - long haired, semi long haired, Siamese and Oriental breeds.
At least six members of a Spanish intelligence team were killed in Iraq Saturday as they returned from a mission south of capital Baghdad, according to information from Spain's Defence Ministry. A journalist who drove by the murder scene said he saw four
A working group of nine Russian experts has arrived in Bulgaria on November 28, to assist for the modernization of the country's MiG-29 jet-fighters, Bulgarian Dnevnik daily said. The process has two stages - one for prolonging the fighters' exploitation
US troops in Iraq have arrested 41 suspected insurgents during separate operations on Saturday, military officials have said. Ever since the US-led war was proclaimed over, suicide attacks have claimed the lives of dozens of US troops and other coalition
Bulgarian veteran rapper Mihail Mihaylov, better known as Misho Shamara, released his new album a few weeks after mate Ivan Glavchev a.k.
Bulgarian Boris Arsov, aged 24, who was one of the six main suspects for murdering arms trader Phillip Naydenov-Fatik on August 19, has been shot in capital Sofia. The young man's body was found in a car at the Boyana suburb early on Saturday afternoon, a
The decision for increasing fuel excise duties is final and won't be revised, Bulgaria's Finance Minister Milen Velchev told local Net radio on Saturday. Bulgaria got a three-year transitional period for cigarettes excise to come up with European Union (
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