The Privatisation Agency will trade against compensation notes stakes in fifty state-owned companies, Iliya Vassilev, the agency's Executive Director, announced. The stakes put up for sale on the stock exchange are expected to absorb compensation notes wi
Florida executed by injection anti-abortion militant Paul Hill on Wednesday, who became the first person executed in the United States for murdering a doctor who performed abortions. Paul Hill, 49, was condemned for the July 29, 1994, shooting deaths of D
The prime minister of Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen is due to arrive today in Sofia to pay an official visit at the invitation of Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg.
Libya set the next court session on the case of the six Bulgarian medics for September 8, Bulgaria's Info Radio said August 3.
Thirteen of Bulgaria's most popular fashion designers showed their latest collections at the country's biggest art festival called Apolonia. The festival, which opened August 31, takes place in tourists-crowded coastal town of Sozopol and features jazz, p
A special team for fighting against drug traffic was formed in Bulgaria by the country's Interior Ministry, the Customs Agency and the Financial Investigation Bureau. This is a move that will guarantee efficient cooperation between separate state institu
Bulgaria may allot some BGN 12 M for the local elections that are to take place in October, governmental spokesman Dimitar Tsonev said Wednesday. The Council of Ministers is expected to decide on the exact sum at Thursday's meeting, Tsonev explained.
Bulgaria greenlighted Wednesday the building of a waste depot in the town of Silistra by a German consortium including two Bulgarian firms, the Bulgarian National Radio said.
The Association of Bulgarian Medics demanded some BGN 2 B -- which is some 5 percent of the country's GDP -- for state hospitals in 2004, claiming that medical centers need this sum to pay off their debts, the Bulgarian National Radio said Wednesday. Fina
Bulgaria's high-level service hospital St Ekaterina in capital Sofia will open Thursday a new diagnosis center. The event will be attended by Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, official spokesman said.
Alitalia had its regular Rome-Sofia line inaugurated on Wednesday at the airport in Bulgaria's capital by the country's Transport Minister Nikolay Vassilev and Italy's Ambassador Gian Battista Campagnola.
Bulgaria's legendary football player and former captain of the national team Krassimir Balakov will arrive in the country to show support for the Bulgarian players in Saturday's match against Estonia, Director of the Bulgarian team Ivan Vutsov told the Go
Five people have been killed and at least 30 others wounded in explosions on a crowded commuter train in southern Russia. Government officials said they believed it was an act of terrorism.
The creation of a new global media giant has drawn closer after Vivendi Universal said it intended to merge its entertainment business with General Electric's television network NBC. Vivendi said it had entered exclusive talks with NBC over the formation
A UK Ministry of Defence official has told the Hutton inquiry his staff had a number of concerns over the 45 minute Iraq weapons claim. Brian Jones, who managed scientists working at the Defence Intelligence Staff, told the inquiry into the death of Dr Da
Dozens of victims of France's heatwave who remained unclaimed despite appeals for relatives to come forward have been buried in paupers' graves in an official ceremony.
Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry hails the new Iraqi government appointed by the US-led Interim Governing Council, spokesman of the ministry said on Wednesday. Officials at the Foreign Ministry expressed belief that it was a strongly positive sign that for th
The discoverer of the HIV virus, Prof. Luc Montaigner, has answered affirmatively the questions of the defense in favor of the six Bulgarian medics accused in Libya's HIV case at a court hearing on Wednesday.
A newly formed Committee for Solidarity and Support (CSS) will provide financial aid for Bulgaria's peacekeeping unit in the Iraqi city of Karbala, Vasil Vassilev, leader of the Union of Employers in Bulgaria, said Wednesday. Establishment of the CSS was
The Supreme Administrative Court defended the tacit agreement rule in the decision of the Supervisory Council for the sale of 65% stake in Bulgaria's telecom operator the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC).
Bulgarian environmentalist initiated a campaign to clean up the Pirin Mountain, one of the country's most popular tourists destinations. The operation will take place September 5-14 along the most visited tourists routes and in areas around rest houses.
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