The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) stops broadcasting again on Monday as most of the journalists continue protests against director Stoyan Cheshmedzhiev. The news agency stopped work on Friday, which was unprecedented in the 105th history of BTA.
The Iraqi authorities have officially asked all journalists and foreign nationals to leave the country in anticipation of war, Gasan Nasur, correspondent of the Trud daily told Bulgarian National Radio. He said that extraordinary security measures have b
Arthur Bogomil Burton has been protesting almost every day in front of the US Embassy in Sofia against war in Iraq. After being born in Bulgaria and living there and in the USSR for 23 years, he emigrated and has been all over the world in the last 20 yea
Sofia Mayor Sofianski criticized the government's policy on the municipal budgets during a visit in Bulgarian city Russe. In his opinion, this policy will lead to a crisis in the public services sector.
Zoran Zivkovic, a former interior minister and close ally of assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, will succeed him. Zivkovic was elected leader of The Democratic Party of Serbia.
At least nine policemen and two civilians have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamic militants in Indian-administered Kashmir, Indian police have said. They were ambushed near Gool, in the disputed region's Udhampur district, about 65 kilometres (
Global health authorities are struggling to contain a mystery virus which has affected more than 150 people in a number of countries, killing at least nine. On Sunday, the World Health Organisation said two deaths had been reported in Canada - thought to
The statute of the Foreign Investments Agency will be changed soon, Pavel Ezekiev, director of the agency announced in Lisbon where he accompanies Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg on an official visit. The scope of the agency's activities will be expanded as th
Customs officers seized on Sunday morning huge quantities of heroin at border checkpoint Gueshevo. The drug was found in a Turkish bus while it was exiting Bulgaria.
Regional Development Minister Valentin Tserovski opened the construction of the new section of the Thrakia motorway between Orizovo and Stara Zagora. Stara Zagora-based company PSI will do the construction work.
On Monday and Tuesday Euro-integration Minister Meglena Kuneva will be the official representative of Bulgaria to the European Convention. She will participate in the plenary session of the Convention, in which the draft of articles 24 - 33 of the future
Newly set up "December 14" civil committee, led by former rightist opposition chair Edvin Sugarev demanded the immediate resignation of Interior Minister Petkanov because of the show murders of MG President Iliya Pavlov and Moldovian Rubakov last week and
Portugal might invest in Bulgaria's infrastructure and electric power industry. Bulgarian Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg announced that during his three day visit there.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg will pay an official visit to Albania on March 26 and 27, he told Bulgarian journalists in Lisbon Saturday. On March 21, the prime minister will make a one-day visit to Brussels.
Mariyan B., 29, was found dead on Sunday morning in the block where he lived in Lozenetz quarter in Sofia.
The cooperation between the Bulgarian government and the business community in the implementation of structural reforms will be top on the agenda of the coming Fourth Round Table with the Bulgarian government, organized by The Economist Group.
Delia Meth-Cohn is Senior Consultant at the The Economist Group and is chairperson of the Fourth Round Table with the Bulgarian Government, which will take place on March 18 and 19, 2003 in Hilton Hotel, Sofia. Delia Meth-Cohn answered questions of Milen
Iraq expects war could start any time now. The country went on a war footing on Sunday hours before emergency talks on Iraq between Bush, Blair and Aznar on the Azores islands.
By Sam Vaknin UPI Senior Business Correspondent
Authorities in Serbia say they have arrested one of the criminal ring leaders behind the assassination of the Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic.
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