British American Tobacco (BAT) reached agreement on a deal to merge its American assets with those of cigarette producer RJ Reynolds in an attempt to better protect itself against the US market conditions. The deal will create a new listed company named R
Bulgaria's Parliamentary Speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov violated the election law but he would not be fined, Pavlina Todorova head of Sofia's municipal election committee said Tuesday. On October 26 after casting his vote Gerdzhikov told journalists that he b
The commander of Bulgarian troops in Iraq that was appointed governor of second holiest Shia city Karbala Lt. Col.
The number of Bulgarian municipalities where mayors were elected in the first round of the country's local elections jumped to 68 from 55 as the counting gets processed. The smaller number was announced on Monday - a day after the poll.
Bulgarian voters handed their prime minister and former king, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a heavy defeat in local elections, his most serious blow since coming to power two years ago, Washington Post wrote on Tuesday, citing early results.
The country's former Communist party swept to victory in weekend municipal elections amid unhappiness with Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the New York Times wrote on Tuesday, citing preliminary results. The party, the Bulgarian Socialists
Preliminary results in Bulgaria's local elections show the country's former communist party has taken a clear victory, the BBC wrote on Monday. With half the votes counted, the Socialist Party (BSP) had taken 33%, against only 10% for the centre-rig
A pioneering DNA analysis carried out by experts from a Sofia-based criminology institute has proven that hair kept in the Martial History Museum in Bulgaria's capital belonged to Vassil Levski, the charismatic leader of Bulgarians' fight against the Otto
Right after the picture of the vote in Bulgaria's local elections emerged, analysts from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) confirmed their forecasts for a deeping chasm in the ruling Simeon II National Movement and imminent early general elections nex
The right-wing opposition Union of Democratic Forces urged that in the upcoming second round of local elections Bulgarians cast their vote against the return to power of the Bulgarian Socialist Party. The declaration echoed a statement of the right-wing
The Bulgarian Finance Ministry has revised initial plans to set corporate profit tax in 2005 and 2006 at 15%, suggesting that it stands at 20%.
There is increasing evidence that foreign fighters are involved in the attacks against Western targets in Iraq, the US and UK have said. The use of suicide bombers in Monday's devastating series of attacks in Baghdad was a tactic associated with "foreign
Sony is planning to cut 20,000 jobs - 13% of its global workforce - over three years as part of a massive restructuring designed to see off its rampant rivals. The cost of the three-year plan to deal with sliding profits will be about JPY 335 B (USD 3.
Policemen in the French town of Bordeaux have arrested 27 Bulgarians, along with 18 other foreigners, on suspicion that they lived on begging, spokesman of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. Five of the Bulgarian detainees have gotten expulsion
Customs officers discovered Tuesday night 130kg hashish at the Bulgarian Varna West sea port. The narcotic has been transported by a Turkish ship that had sailed off for Varna from Lebanon's capital Beirut.
Member of the European Parliament Giles Chichester has said that he would appeal before European Union (EU) institutions to prolong the deadline for closing units 3, 4 of Bulgaria's only nuclear power plant in the town of Kozloduy, the Bulgarian News Agen
Following criticism fired by a German MP, Bulgaria's deputy prime minister in charge of European affairs, Plamen Panayotov, stated that the administration in Berlin has made no objections against Sofia's intelligence chief so far.
Incumbent Sofia mayor and current leader in the race for this post, Stefan Sofiyanski, has requested cooperation with rightist Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) at the run-off ballot, Bulgarian media reported on Wednesday. The move comes two days after the
Bulgarian troops nabbed in Karbala in the Polish stabilization zone a group of Iraqis who last Friday opened fire there at a Polish helicopter, Warsaw-based online news provider Gazet? Wyborcza reported.
Bulgaria's Interior Minister Georgi Petkanov started a crusade against police officers that get behind the wheel after having liquor drinks, Bulgarian media reported. On Tuesday, the minister ordered for those violators to be sacked from work if they are
A new chair of the Bulgaria's Consitutional Court was elected on Tuesday. Nedelcho Beronov, a constitutional judge up till now, will take over the chairmanship of the court which watches over the oservance of the country's main law.
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