The Agency of Financial Investigation disposes of no information about any finances belonging to Saddam Hussein in Bulgaria, the chief of the state agency Dr. Vasil Kirov declared before Pari Daily.
The coalition between the Simeon II National Movement (SNM) and the mainly ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) is unpopular and suffers from serious internal divisions, The Economist Intelligence Unit wrote January 5.
Missionaries recruit volunteers among the poor population of the Rhodope mountains and offer them a USD 5,000 bounty to fight for the cause of liberating Iraq, 24 Hours Daily reported, citing Turkish sources. According to the daily the information has bee
The World Health Organization has expressed caution at China's plan to kill 10,000 civet cats, suspected SARS carriers. The WHO is afraid that a reckless culling of the civets could eliminate evidence of the origins of the disease.
Patriarch Maxim, head of Bulgaria's Orthodox Church, performed today the water-blessing-of-the-colours service, a tradition on Epiphany. The religious-military ritual took place in front of the Unknown Soldier Monument in St Alexander Nevsky Square in Sof
Bulgaria swept the fourth place among the world's 2004 hottest tourist spots according to The Washington Post.
By Elissa Leibowitz Washington Post Staff Writer
The number of foreign tourists that visited Bulgarian the first eleven months of 2003 has gone up by 17.39% as compared to the same period in 2002, the country's Economy Ministry reported on Monday.
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy welcomed on Monday the peaceful and orderly manner in which the extraordinary presidential elections in Georgia were conducted.
All-Turkish tie-in Koc Holding/Turk Telecom has prolonged by 3 months its bid bond for the privatisation of 65% stake in Bulgaria's dominant telecom carrier the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), it emerged on Monday.
"Bulgaria welcomes the adoption of a new Constitution of Afghanistan on Jan 4, which is the key element to implementing the political process of building a stable and democratic country," reads the official statement of Bulgarian Foreign Ministry. Afghan
The first six months of 2004 will be marked with the EU Presidency of Ireland. Not only will Ireland be the first EU member state to preside over a Union of 25 member states, it will also have to try and kick-start the failed talks on the new European Con
The claims that the Bulgarian soldiers in Karbala have been betrayed by the Polish command are unfeasible, Poland's Defence Ministry spokesman announced refuting the allegations that there has been a "bargain" between the Polish command and the Iraqi shei
Bulgarian PM Simeon Saxe-Coburg welcomed a delegation of 16 top French businessmen, who came on a working visit to Bulgaria. On Sunday they had official talks in the residence premises of Vrana, the governmental press office announced.
Bulgaria's best tennis player Magdalena Maleeva started the new season with a victory over the Czech Denisa Chladkova with 6-1, 6-1 in a game of the first round of the Australian women's hard-court championships Gold Coast. The USD 170,000 tournament at R
The Turkish national Murat Aihan, 32, was extradited from Bulgaria on Monday. The man was sentenced to 5 years in jail by a Romanian court.
Iran is seriously considering moving the capital away from Tehran amid fears of a major earthquake, Hassan Rohani, the country's top security official, told national television, cited by BBC. Tehran lies on a major seismological fault and experts have lon
Four of the Bulgarian soldiers who were injured in the December 27, 2003 attacks in Karbala were released from the Military-Medical Academy in Sofia on Monday. At first, it was announced that six of the young men would leave the Academy on January 5.
Overgas cut the price of natural gas for home usage with 5%, making it cost BGN 0.55/kWh.
There was money of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein deposited in Bulgarian banks, a publication of the Sunday Express reads. Reportedly, Saddam hid GBP 35 B with the Queen's banker Coutts and Co and 17 other London banks.
An unknown Islamic organization, self-named Ansar el-Hak or Justice Partisans, has claimed responsible for the "attentat" against the Egyptian charter jet, which crashed over Red Sea on Saturday. The anonymous man, who called at the local AFP section in C
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