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At least 15 people have been killed and other 100 injured on Monday in Bolivia in clashes between police and protesters who demanded for the removal of President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. Still, Lozada, a US ally in the anti-drug war, refused to step dow
World | October 14, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
The United Nations (UN) Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution enabling NATO-led international peacekeepers to operate beyond the Afghan capital Kabul. The fresh measure allows the 5,300-strong peacekeeping forces to deploy in a number of provi
World | October 14, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
Some 40 Israeli tanks entered the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, in a follow-up to the operation launched in the area last Friday. An operation in Gaza is under way, Israeli military forces confirmed, after Palestinian witnesses said that
World | October 14, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
Police hunt for 35-year-old Sandanski resident Nikolay Stankov who barged Monday into a currency exchange bureau in the town and murdered with a knife a young woman that worked there, continues.
As he left, the attacker also injured one of the guards, an
Politics | October 14, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
Bulgaria's former Prime Minister and ex-leader of rightist Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) Ivan Kostov was pushed into a "dirty money" scandal after popular Trud daily wrote Tuesday that Kostov had received in 2001 some USD 200,000 from controversial Isr
Politics | October 14, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
Two-year-old Egyptian twins Mohamed and Ahmed Ibrahim who were separated by US surgeons in a 34-hour operation are in "good shape" after spending their first night apart, doctors said. The two boys, who were conjoined at the crown of the head, are current
World | October 14, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
By Nikolay Markov
Exclusively for novinite.
Sports | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
As exciting as they were from the brushes of Degas, Renoir, and Van Gogh, the Masterpieces recreated by the world most famous art forger Daniele Donde were displayed at Sheraton Sofia Hotel Balkan in Bulgaria's capital. Some 100 pictures are shown in the
Society | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
The United States has included Bulgaria- proposed text in the amended resolution on Iraq, redrafted to win international support for peacekeeping and reconstruction in the country, Bulgaria's Ambassador to the United Nations Stefan Tafrov told Bulgarian j
Politics | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
Several people had been arrested in connection with Sunday's attack outside the central Baghdad Hotel, the coalition spokesman Charles Heatly announced on Monday, one day after the blast. The death toll rose to eight, including at least one suspected suic
World | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
Court in the Libyan town of Benghazi set October 20 as the next date for hearing the case against the six Bulgarian medics accused of deliberately affecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV at a Benghazi hospital. The delay was requested by lawyers of
Politics | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
The De Facto Roma news agency in Bulgaria complained Monday that the rest of the country's media - except the Bulgarian News Agency and leftist Duma newspaper - treat the agency with ignorance. The agency's chief Toma Nikolaev protested that news which it
Politics | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
The Supervisory Board of the Privatisation Agency greenlighted on Monday the sale of a 100% stake in Sofia-based wine company Vinimpex to the Bulgarian arm of the French drinks group Belvedere.
The price of the deal is BGN 2.
Business | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
Bulgaria's customs revenues for September 2003 hit almost BGN 272 M, official data show. This sum is up by some BGN 48 M as compared to September last year.
Politics | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
A soldier from Bulgaria's stabilization force in the northern part of Iraq's holy city of Karbala, has been slightly injured on Sunday as a car broke through a security barrier at a high-speed, paying no heed to the control post of the Bulgarian contingen
Politics | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
Bulgarian Nikola Stoyanov, aged 50, died Monday in a hospital after being stabbed with a knife by Todor Balkanski in the town of Tutrakan September 30. In the attack Balkanski killed a 47-year-old woman and wounded six other people.
Politics | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
More than 200 Bulgarian officials have been sacked on corruption allegations from September 2002 to September this year, data of the government's agency for anti-corruption fight show.
Over the same period the agency has received some 1,800 reports about
Politics | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court failed for the third time to elect a new chairman, after two of the candidates withdrew from the contest and none of the remaining ones succeeded in garnering enough votes.
Earlier on the same day two of the origin
Politics | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
Journalists from Hungary's most influential media questioned Monday Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg on issues concerning the country's Euro-integration process, officials said.
Saxe-Coburg is currently on a two-day visit to the Central-Europ
Politics | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
Bulgaria faces serious problems in recruiting its second contingent to help the U.S.
Politics | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
Bulgaria's Interior Ministry is expected to issue today a new ban for controversial Russia-born businessman Michael Chorny to enter the country, Ivan Chobanov, chief of the country's National Security Service, said.
Politics | October 13, 2003, Monday // 00:00
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