Representatives of the World Bank (WB) -- including the Country Manager of the WB Sofia Office Oscar de Bruyn Kops -- praised reforms in Bulgaria's legislation and state administration at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Plamen Panayotov on Monday. Me
Patents for software inventions are a holdback to further development in this field, member of Bulgaria's Free Software union Aleksander Shopov told the Bulgarian National Radio on September 1. This practice is unsuited for small Bulgarian firms involved
The Arab television station al-Jazeera has broadcast what it says is an audiotape of Saddam Hussein, denying involvement in the killing of a senior Shia cleric. Ayatollah Muhammad Baqr al-Hakim was among nearly 100 people who died in a massive car bomb bl
Bulgaria and Spain favor the participation of more countries in Iraq's reconstruction. "Currently in the framework of the UN security Council, Bulgaria and Spain work on a new resolution which will allow a larger number of countries to participate," Spani
The witness in investigation of the killing of arms trader Fatik is exposed to great danger after Bulgarian court released Sunday the six murder suspects, Chief Secretary of the country's Interior Ministry Gen. Boyko Borissov alarmed on Monday.
A new book by late Bulgarian classic Nikolay Haytov entitled "Through Sieve and Riddle" hits the shelves. This is the last work of the famous writer who died a year ago and the first to be published following his death.
There is no evidence that the six arrestees in the murder case of arms trader Phillip Naydenov-Fatik have a connection. This is what Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor Nikola Filchev announced on Monday after the Sofia City Court decided to release five of them
The condition of the Bulgarian girl who suffered serious injuries in an incident during a soccer match remains stable. However, 22-year-old Gergana Orlova whose self-contained breathing respirator was switched off on Sunday cannot move her limbs, Dr.
Bulgaria's platoon stops its participation in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan under a decision of the Parliament dated July 23 2003.
The Bulgarian troops stationed in Iraq have been accordingly prepared for the psychological challenges of their mission. This is what the chief of the psychiatry clinics at the Military Medical Academy in Sofia, Col.
Railway workers will have the right to no-interest credits after the Bulgarian State Railways and Railway Infrastructure signed an agreement with several banks, the country's Transport Minister Nikolay Vassilev said.
Because of overdue repairs, Bulgaria's MiG-29 fighter jets will miss for the first time the aviation war games Cooperative Key, which start on Monday and will last till September 3. A delayed delivery of engines is causing the absence from the games' site
A Bulgarian field guild is part of a charm offensive; Basra hotel puts up a banner for Czechs By William J.
Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has said that the loss of a nuclear-powered submarine with 10 crew in the Barents Sea was largely caused by negligence of navy officials. The incident happened as the 40-year-old vessel - a November class K-159 - wa
From Monday, Dutch doctors will be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis to patients, the BBC reported. Soft-drug use is tolerated in the Netherlands, but for the past two years the government's Bureau for Medicinal Cannabis (BMC) has been researching the
The American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been called in to investigate the devastating car bomb attack in the Iraqi city of Najaf which killed at least 95 people. The FBI's top agent in Iraq, Thomas Fuentes said experts will look for links b
Libya says it has agreed a compensation deal with relatives of the 170 people killed in the bombing of a French UTA airliner in 1989 - but Paris will not confirm the statement. "The problem over the UTA case is over and the Lockerbie case is now behind us
Bulgaria's Magdalena Maleeva made it to quarterfinals in doubles at US Open. The 28-year-old Sofia-born player and her South African partner Lizel Huber upset Petra Mandula (Hungary) and Patricia Wartusch (Austria) 6-4, 6-1 in a match that lasted 65 minut
It was out with the old and in with the new at the ninth world athletics championships which saw a bumper crop of fresh talent emerge to eclipse established names. No race illustrated that better than the men's 10,000 metres as Ethiopian sensation Kenenis
The 1,000 MW Unit Six at Bulgaria's nuclear power plant Kozloduy will be switched off the energy grid Monday for annual repair works and fuel recharge.
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