There are no Bulgarians killed or injured in the strong earthquakes that hit Japan Saturday morning. The two consecutive tremors that injured more than 300 people did not hurt the Bulgarians living near the epicenter according to Sofia's embassy in Tokyo.
This week's report on intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks also includes stark reminders of the danger terrorism still poses to Americans and their Western allies.
The first thirty soldiers from Bulgaria's Iraq-bound peacekeeping battalion left Saturday morning from the country's second city Plovdiv. They boarded three IL-76 jets to get to Kuwait where their first base is located.
The biggest Bulgarian insurer DZI secured full-range insurance for the Bulgarian infantry battalion that leaves Saturday on an Iraq peacekeeping mission. The military unit will be indemnified in case of accidents and will have medical expanses covered.
The United States military has allowed TV journalists into a morgue in Iraq to film two bodies said to be Uday and Qusay Hussein, in another attempt to convince Iraqis the men are really dead. US officials said the bodies, each with more than 20 bullet wo
US President George W Bush has ordered American warships to take up positions off the coast of Liberia to support a peacekeeping mission in the war-torn country, the White House has said. The statement said the US troops' role would be "limited in time an
In case Bulgarian soccer team CSKA beats Armenia's Punic, it would face Turkish heavyweight Galatasaray in the third preliminary round of the Champions League. This is what the lot drawn on Friday in the UEFA headquarters in Swiss city Nyon showed.
Hundreds of university applicants sat Friday for an exam at the Faculty of Journalism with the prestigious Sofia University. They had to compose an essay under the title "Power and Corruption.
Angelina Jolie says she doesn't have a clue why her marriage to Billy Bob Thornton failed. "I'd love to know," the "Tomb Raider" star tells People magazine in its Aug.
Three Bulgarian hotels were made part of the European hotel chain Minotel, Bulgarian Dnevnik daily reported.
Bulgaria signed Friday an agreement with Warsaw to dispatch its already prepared infantry battalion to Iraq under Polish command.
The Social Ministry in Sofia decided to grant BGN 700 to each of the children of the victims in Thursday's helicopter crash. The country was shocked when three army officers and a fire fighter died when a Mi-17 aircraft crashed while helping extinguish a
Simeon Saxe-Coburg who marks his second anniversary as the prime minister of Bulgaria faces the anger of voters because he have failed to deliver on his promises to improve quality of life. This is what British newspaper The Independent says in article on
The commissions on energy and economy policy with the Parlaiment in Sofia approved the social section to the strategy for the privatization of Bulgaria's seven power distribution utilities. Milko Kovachev, Bulgaria's energy minister, commented that it wa
Israeli soldier killed a five-year-old Palestinian boy and wounded his two sisters after opening fire on a Palestinian car at a checkpoint in the West Bank Friday. The soldier fired at the car "due to an operational mistake", Israeli army spokesman said.
Bulgaria's 14-years old Monika Kostova became European sports shooting champion at the championship in Pilzen, Czech Republic (rifle, pistol, running). Kostova ranked first among the girls in 25 m pistol dicipline.
Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov sent Friday a congratulation letter to the Bulgarian team that landed silver medal at the Balkan Informatics Olympiad. The event took place in neighbouring Romania.
Bulgaria will be soon hit by a wheat crisis says a declaration of the rightist opposition party Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) published Friday by Ventsislav Varbanov, agriculture minister in the previous Bulgarian government. The declaration also pred
The Bulgarian Parliament greenlighted Friday exports of biological tissues and cells to foreign countries. However, such exports will only be permitted when the country's need of human tissues or cells have been satisfied.
The most probable cause of Thursday's helicopter crash near the southwest Bulgaria that claimed four lives is the smoke of the forest fire over which the aircraft was pouring water. The engines must have taken in smoke, which lacks oxygen and thus lost po
German jazz bang Swing Stars will perform at the special "Jazz Brunch" at the Hilton Sofia hotel on August 10. The happening will offer a lavish buffet along with great jazz music performed by the German band.
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