After a special operation carried out by Bulgarian authorities in cooperation with Scotland Yard and the UK Home Office, 124 people from the Bulgarian Interior Ministry were fired over corruption, Deputy Interior Minister Boyko Kotsev announced Tuesday.
Inflation may rise a little at the beginning of 2004 due to increase in excise duties, Ivan Iskrov, governor of the Bulgarian National Bank said at his meeting with members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria, where he delivered a lecture on t
Interpetroleum's CEO Stoil Slavov, who was killed Monday together with his bodyguards, while in the elevator, has been under police investigation since 1997, Interior Ministry officials announced. The investigation, code-titled "The Untouchable", has not
Members of Bulgaria's largest right-wing political formation Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) will gather on a two-day national conference starting February 21, the party's National Council decided on Tuesday. The forum is aimed at electing a party leade
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Lack of control inside Bulgaria's largest steel maker Kremikovtzi has caused the January 10 blast that killed three people, a check conducted by the state General Labor Inspectorate (GLI) showed Tuesday.
Bulgaria is well prepared to meet the country's scheduled January 2007 EU accession date, the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee says in its recent report on Bulgaria's progress toward EU accession, as cited by EurActive.com.
Some 10.5% of Bulgaria's people aged 15 - 74 browse the Internet, a survey of the National Statistical Institute conducted in the summer of 2003, showed.
Interior Chief Secretary General Boyko Borissov called for urgent changes to the Procedure Code under which expert studies of counterfeit money will be carried out at a specialized center at the Bulgarian National Bank. Interior Chief Secretary General B
Minor shares in some 110 Bulgarian companies will be floated on the exchange in a public bid, Deputy Manager of the state Privatization Agency Stanisslav Ananiev, cited by local Dnevnik daily, said. The bid is most likely to take place in the beginning o
More than 50 people have been injured in an Indonesia fire that started after two explosions rocked the Java Island, local police said. The blasts took place at a chemical plant in the most densely populated island in Indonesia.
Police found two pistols and ammunitions at the site of the blast that shattered the office building in Sofia's Lozenets district on Monday, Nikolay Nikolov, spokesman of the Sofia Directorate of the Interior, announced on Tuesday. A revolver - Smith & W
Bulgarian football star Georgi Ivanov-Gonzo, currently playing at the Levski football club, got out of the second elevator of the Sofia office building just a few moments before the bomb went off, unofficial data claims. Four people were killed in a bomb
Questions remain over the real target of the blast that shattered the office building in Sofia's Lozenets district on Monday, killing four people and wounding another seven. It is still early to say whether the assault targeted the Interpetroleum executi
Thirteen people were killed in a powerful explosion on Monday at Algeria's largest refinery and key exporter of gas and oil in the Mediterranean port city of Skikda. At least 74 people were injured in the blast at the petrochemical complex in the industri
The bomb at the Sofia Interpetrolium and Partners office building was most probably planted by an insider, Bulgaria's Interior Chief Secretary Boyko Borissov told private bTV channel.
Senator John Kerry won the first of a series of votes to choose a Democratic challenger to President George Bush in November's US election. Vietnam veteran Kerry, 60, beat Senator John Edwards into second place in the Iowa vote, with early favourite Howar
Ivan Kostov, former Bulgarian Prime Minister and UDF leader, said that the current leader of Bulgaria's main opposition Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) Nadezhda Mihaylova should not run for the post if an extraordinary national party conference is summon
Bulgaria's General Labour Inspectorate will present the results of the inspectorate preliminary examination on the causes of the January 10 tragedy at Bulgaria's Kremikovtzi steel maker. Three casualties, a fireman and two workers, died and twenty two we
Sixteen members of a mainly Filipino crew were missing on Tuesday after a cargo ship capsized off southwestern Norway, killing at least two seamen, rescuers said.Twelve of the 30 crew were rescued on Monday and rescuers said they still hoped to find survi
The major Tesco supermarket group is looking at some countries, including Romania and Bulgaria, and is keeping an eye on the fast-changing Russian market, Financial Times reported. The company does not rule out new ventures in the wider region and has ann
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