Bulgaria's St Ivan Rilski state-run mental hospital in the town of Novi Iskar will open Friday a special group-therapy club, with the assistance of Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca that co-funded the project. Among guests at the club's opening wi
General Brigo Asparuhov is expected to enter the political Cabinet of the prime minister this week, governmental speaker Dimitar Tsonev told the Blitz broadcast of the private national TV channel bTV a week after the prime minister announced the controver
Europe's renowned human-rights missionary Otto von Habsburg, president of the Paneuropa-Union, joined Tuesday Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg and Foreign Minister Solomon Passy at a special conference in Sofia, dedicated to Bulgaria's Euro-int
The possibility of passing death sentences against the Bulgarian medics in Libya is slim according to Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya, who talked to BBC - Bulgaria on Tuesday.
An Iraqi policeman was killed and 19 people were wounded as a suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint outside U.N.
The risk of introducing visas for Bulgarian nationals in their travels to Austria and other Western European countries exists, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lyubomir Todorov said in an interview for Radio Free Europe. The comment came after Austria's Interi
Prestigious Euromoney award Finance Minister of the Year was handed on Monday by last year's laureate - Bulgaria's top financier Milen Velchev - to winner Ibrahim Abd al-Aziz al-Asaf of Saudi Arabia. The ceremony took place in Dubai during the annual summ
Sapa-DPA Hamburg - Hungarians have overtaken the French as having the world's most active sex lives, while eastern Europeans outshine Latin lovers, according to the results of a global sex study released on Monday.
Bulgaria set forth before the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arguments for preserving the current budget deficit, the Finance Ministry in Sofia announced.
Born in Amsterdam on April 3, 1948, de Hoop Scheffer obtained a doctorate in law before entering the foreign service. After missions in Ghana and at NATO headquarters, he was the private secretary to four successive Dutch foreign ministers.
The NATO allies Monday picked Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as the alliance's next secretary general.
One of Bulgaria's rightist parties VMRO awarded the first Sofia resident who called on Monday under the Flutter the Bulgarian Flag initiative. Siyka Hristova from Sofia's quarter Sveta Troitsa displayed the national flag at her balcony and called the VMRO
US military men start a monitoring mission over Bulgaria in a Bulgarian An-30B on Monday to last till September 27, the Defense Ministry announced.
The Siberian Airlines have requested a permit for regular Sofia-Odessa and Sofia-Moscow flights, Bulgaria's Trud daily reported. Bulgarian officials were quoted as saying that the request is likely to be okayed but the government has to greenlight the pr
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the September 11, 2001 drama in New York told US officials it took five years to arrange the attacks and that a wave of suicide attacks was supposed to follow, reports said. Mohammed also claimed that the hijacking te
District Governor of Bulgaria's main coastal city of Varna Yani Yanev, who was also nominated for mayor of the city by ruling Simeon II National Movement (SIINM) was injured in a car accident on Monday. Yanev was caused a shoulder fracture and was taken
France will not veto a US-backed resolution of the United Nations (UN) Security Council on the future of Iraq, French President Jacques Chirac said. The draft text for a resolution has not yet been put to a vote.
The lawyers of the six Bulgarian defendants in Libyan HIV case insisted there were gaps and incoherence in the indictment as well as omissions in the documents used by the prosecution. Libyan solicitor Osman Bizanti presented before the jury a list of 44
Holland's Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm is highly impressed by Bulgaria's economic development, official spokesman in Bulgaria said after Sunday's meeting of Zalm with his Bulgarian counterpart Milen Velchev in Dubai. The meeting took place during the sta
A 13-year-old Bulgarian boy will leave for Turkey to take part in a training course with football heavyweight Galatasaray. Young Bulgarian Georgi Grudev was selcted after he won the children's Football Hopes tournament in the Bulgarian city of Stara Zagor
Bulgaria may waive restrictions imposed on immigrants to own land in Bulgaria and take part in the country's political life. The plan will be discussed at a special round table in Sofia's National Palace of Culture September 23.
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