Bulgaria has witnessed a very high number of criminal cases against journalists and fines for defamation and insults are too large. This is what human rights and democracy watchdogs found as they conducted a study in February and March, 2003 of lawsuits b
The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday lifted Tuesday the warning against travel to China's capital Beijing because of SARS. The decision was based on factors including the number of current SARS cases, quality of surveillance and the effectiveness o
An international exhibition dedicated to the education abroad took place in Sofia June 24. Schools from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Switzerland, Turkey and Cyprus displayed possibilities for Bulgarian students.
The election of a new governor of the Bulgarian National Bank might be put off, Ahmed Dogan, leader of ruling coalition ally the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) said Tuesday. Bulgaria's ruling party Simeon II National Movement (SNM) and MRF will d
Bulgarian President Georgy Parvanov summoned the state Council for Children, Youth and Sports to a meeting Tuesday. The session will focus on resent amendments of the Family Act.
The mayors of Bulgaria's capital Sofia, Macedonian capital Skopje and the Serbian town of Nish will have a working visit in the Macedonian capital. They will discuss the future priorities of trilateral cooperation.
US attack on a convoy that was believed to carry Iraqi leaders may have taken place inside Syria, Pentagon official admitted Tuesday. At least five Syrian border guards were injured in the attack which was carried out by US special forces backed by aircra
Russia's President Vladimir Putin will start Tuesday an official visit in the UK. Putin will hold talks with Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair to focus on cooperation in the energy sector and the Middle East peace process is also likely to be on the age
Israeli army detained more than 100 Palestinians in an operation targeting the militant group Hamas in the West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli military sources said. The action came amid reports that Palestinian militant groups were on the verge of agreeing
Relations between Bulgaria and Macedonia remain healthy despite recent incidents with Bulgarian nationals in Macedonia, Sofia's Ambassador to Skopje Aleksandar Yordanov said Tuesday. Some 200,000 Bulgarians enter neighbouring Macedonia every year and hard
Thousands of Bulgarian seven-grade students sat Tuesday for a mathematics exam that can grant them access to the elite schools of the country. Tuesday's exam follows the essey writing session that took place last week.
Bulgaria's Euro-integration Minister Meglena Kuneva will join June 24th via videoconferencing top officials from Germany, Finland and Malta to discuss the future of Europe, Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) said Tuesday. The discussion was initiated by the
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The US-led administration in Iraq has announced plans for the creation of a new army for the country. The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) also said it would make monthly payments to many of those who lost their jobs when former President Saddam Huss
The Sofia office of pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline was named the best representation office in the country by the Bulgarian drug producers and traders.
US Ambassador to Bulgaria James Pardew will comment on the recent attacks against journalists in the country at a roundtable in the main coastal city Varna on June 25th. According to the embassy's press office, he will stress that violence and intimidatio
Hristo Stoitchkov, one of the stars of the 1994 World Cup, scored his first goal of the season to lift D.C.
The Bulgarian government controls state-owned media, an international human rights watchdog insists. In its yearly report, the International Helsinki Federation denounced the cabinet for having exercised political control over 2002.
Bulgaria's president made Monday defiant comments in the face of US threats for aid setback. He stressed the country needs to act pro-European commenting on sharp remarks made by the US ambassador.
International channel for traffic in humans from the Middle East through Bulgaria was busted during an operation of police officers from Bulgarian towns of Vidin and Montana on the Danube River. Twenty-one foreigners from Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia we
Borislav Botev, one of the incumbent executive directors of the Black Sea port of Burgas, who was assaulted and beaten up three months earlier, handed in his resignation Monday.
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