The security company guarding at Escape disco club has been stripped of its license after conducting a check in the company, Colonel Pavlin Dimitrov, deputy director of the National Police Service announced on Tuesday.
Two activists of the opposition bloc Saakashvili-National Movement went on hunger strike in one of the wings of the Georgian parliament's building demanding the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze, ITAR-TASS said. A protest rally continued throug
The people of Iraq will have poorer health for generations as a result of the war, according to a report of Medical charity Medact. The report points destroyed immunisation programmes and water systems, environmental degradation and smoke from oil fires a
Several political formations from the center and right-wing section of the political spectrum joined their efforts to form a majority in Sofia Council under a political agreement signed Tuesday morning. The leaders of the biggest rightist opposition party
Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov starts today a two-day visit to Serbia and Montenegro in a bid to boost bilateral relations, increase trade and improve cooperation in terror fight. This will be the first visit of Bulgarian head of state to the neigh
Some of Bulgaria's top journalists received Monday evening the special Chernorizets Hrabar Awards at a long-anticipated ceremony in Sofia, opened by the country's President Georgi Parvanov. Winners in four categories were selected by the 25-member jury f
Investigation on Sofia's 2001 drama in which seven children died at the Indigo discotheque will be resumed, Sofia prosecutor Slavcho Kardzhev told private bTV channel on Monday. Evidence was given to the prosecutors on today's afternoon, but until that m
Bulgaria's Social Ministry started November 10 recruiting students who want to find a job in Germany. A total of 250 people will be given a job in the western European country, of which 65 would have to had worked in Germany before.
Lee Boyd Malvo, at the age of 18, the younger of two men accused of last year's sniper killings near Washington has pleaded not guilty at his first trial over the attacks. His lawyer told the judge in Chesapeake that he would argue his client was not guil
No changes are expected to be made in Bulgaria's cabinet, the country's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg has said in a statement that governmental spokesman Dimitar Tsonev presented Monday. Such reshuffle is possible only given the country's ruling Sime
Experts at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), whose delegation will make a review on Bulgaria's economic development this week, expressed concern with rapid credit increase in the country. This tendency also leads to growth in imports to the country,
An Iranian state official announced in Moscow that Iran was temporarily suspending uranium enrichment, handing a letter to the United Nations agreeing to sign the so-called Additional Protocol. The paper allows closer inspections of Iran's nuclear facilit
Bulgarian football legend Yordan Lechkov, who is also the freshly-elected mayor of his hometown of Sliven, pledged to grant his salary to orphans and talented children. Salary was not my main motive to run for this post, Lechkov said.
A selection of masterpieces from the collection of UniCredito Italiano will be displayed at an exhibition "The glitter of Baroque", to be opened November 12 at the National Gallery for Foreign Art. The exhibition is organized by the Italian Embassy and th
Bulgaria's state Council for Electronic Media should hold a public discussion and make clear its motives for revoking the registration of Union Television, operator of the Den TV Channel. The drastic measure has been prompted by a comment that German-desc
The European Union has lifted the ban on livestock exports to member countries that was imposed on Bulgaria in 2001, Agriculture Minister Mehmed Dikme announced on Monday.
Corporate consultant Nigel Risner, who has been awarded world's best speaker by the British Academy for Chief Executives, will deliver an exclusive presentation at the Radisson SAS Grand Hotel in Sofia on November 14, organizers at leading Bulgarian PR co
Danish brewer Carlsberg AS said Monday that Carlsberg Breweries has raised its stake in Bulgarian brewer Shumensko Pivo AD to 89 percent through the acquisition of a further 29.6 percent of the company's share capital, AFP reported.
A monolith egg of stone is being carved all the week long in front of the National Art Gallery in Sofia. The news was broken on Sunday at the presentation of the exhibition of European architecture awards "Visar 2003" to be underway by the end of the week
District Court in the Bulgarian town of Pazardzhik terminated the decision of the Municipal Electoral Committee - Veligrad after the election of Fidel Beev for Velingrad mayor was contested by his rival in the run-off vote on November 2, independent candi
November 10 marks the 14th year since the beginning of the democratic changes in Bulgaria. On that date in 1989 Chief Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) and Head of State Todor Zhivkov was dismissed from his post.
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