At least 44 people, including seven policemen, have been killed in clashes between nomads and farmers in north-eastern Nigeria. Police were sent to quell the unrest on Saturday, but according to police spokesman Chris Olakpe "were killed in cold blood by
Israeli troops have captured a founder member of the Islamic militant group Hamas during an incursion into the Gaza Strip. Sheikh Mohammed Taha is reported to be the first senior Hamas political leader to be arrested since the Palestinian uprising began i
Senior officials at the Pentagon say US and British forces have been attacking Iraqi military installations in an aggressive shift in strategy in the no-fly zones over the country, the BBC reported. The strikes, which are being seen as a further stage in
Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev kept his promise to Russia's Finance Minister Kudrin to show him a Bulgarian winter resort. On Monday, he took Kudrin to the Vitosha Mountain near Bulgaria's capital Sofia for a ski se
Two Bulgarians were arrested when Austria's police busted a money forger's ring seizing a record amount of counterfeit banknotes, the national radio in Vienna reported. 300,000 worth of counterfeit euros were discovered when police arrested five people in
Bulgaria and Russia's first ladies visited the National Library in Sofia on Monday. Bulgaria's Zorka Parvanova and Russia's Lyudmila Putina also went to the crypt of the St Alexander Nevski cathedral in Sofia as part of their program for Bulgaria's nation
A memorandum on natural gas deliveries and transit was signed by the chief executive of Russian energy giant Gazprom, Alexey Miller, and Bulgaria's Energy Minister Milko Kovachev, Russian Internet portal RBK reported.
Bulgarian and Turkish entrepreneurs lack sufficient information about the conditions on the market of the neighboring country. This is the opinion of the Bulgarian consul in Turkish city of Edirne.
A sceptic position about war on Iraq was voiced on Monday by new Czech President Vaclav Klaus in an interview quoted by the AFP. He said that the removal of Saddam Hussein by a military operation was "disputable.
Bulgaria's President Parvanov said that Sofia might rationalize its Iraq position. He urged consideration of all options including possible backing of the US-drafted fresh resolution on Iraq but stressed that other plans within the UN Security Council sho
Bulgaria's President Parvanov said he had no information about possible delay of the country's EU entry over Iraqi crisis. "Euro-integration minister should know something that I don't," he commented on the alarm that Bulgaria's Euro-integration Minister
Sofia mayor Stefan Sofianski and Yurii Luzkov, mayor of Russia's capital Moscow, inaugurated a statue of Mother Mary in front of the Russian Culture Center in Sofia on Monday. The statue symbolizes the bond between Bulgarian and Russian peoples.
Moldavian town of Taraklia inhabited mainly by ethnic Bulgarians celebrated Bulgaria's national holiday, the Bulgarian National Radio reported. On the eve of the holiday, a special concert was thrown in the town.
Estonia's right-wing Res Publica party won a surprise result in the country's poll. The right-wingers took 24.
Eight Palestinians including a pregnant woman and a child are reported dead and 35 injured during an incursion by Israeli tanks and soldiers into the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces exchanged fire with Palestinian fighters as they entered a refugee camp at El
A proposal urging Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to go into exile to avert a war is gaining support among Arab Gulf states. Kuwait and Bahrain have backed a proposal made by the United Arab Emirates for the Iraqi leader to go into exile, in return for gua
BBC Online Russian President Vladimir Putin has restated his firm opposition to a possible US-led war on Iraq, saying that the current crisis must be resolved through peaceful means.
Bulgarian archeologists will start massive excavations in the eastern part of the Rhodope Mountain known as a region extraordinarily rich in archeology finds. The explorers will study twenty-eight sites - several mediaeval settlements and a prehistoric mo
An impressive ceremony attended by Russia's President Putin was held to mark Bulgaria's national holiday at historical Mount Shipka, some 270km east of capital Sofia. In their adresses, Putin and his Bulgarian counterpart Parvanov stressed that the restor
Bulgarians enthusiastically celebrated March 3 - the national holiday. The country's President Parvanov, Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg togather with Parliament Speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov and all ministers attended the solemn ceremony to mark Bulgaria's nation
Bulgaria's orthodox Patriarch Maxim awarded the ecclesiastical order St Tsar Boris to Russian President Putin. This is the most important distinction of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and has not been conferred to a head of state for twenty years.
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