Heart transplantation has been carried out in the night of Tuesday in the Sofia-based hospital Saint Ekaterina, doctor Mariana Konteva announced. The heart was transplanted to a 53-year-old woman.
Former US secretary of state James Baker started from Paris a European tour, meant to get agreement on reduction of Iraq's foreign debt. Baker will visit also the states that opposed the war in Iraq.
Over 30kg of heroin worth some BGN 2.4 M were seized by Bulgarian customs officers at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint December 15.
US troops shot dead at least four Iraqis who were among protestors against the capture of Saddam Hussein in two towns west of Baghdad. The shootings took place on Monday night following the demonstrators' putting up Hussein's posters in the towns of Ramad
One of Saddam's daughters, Raghad (RAH'-hahd) Saddam Hussein, demanded that her father, ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, be tried by an international court since they doubt that he will get a fair trial from Iraqi officials. The daughter and her siste
Judicial Reform - Door to Europe was the topic of the national conference, opened by Bulgaria's Minister of Justice Anton Stankov in Sofia on Tuesday.
Sofia Municipal Bank manages all of the capital's funds and an investigation into its activities is most likely, Lyuben Dilov, municipal councillor and chairman of the conservative movement Gergyovden said on Tuesday, referring to the controversial transf
US forces shot dead at least 5 Iraqis in the mainly Sunni Muslim towns of Ramadi and Fallujah, where rioters put up Saddam Hussein posters. Later in the day US military reported that 11 Saddam loyalists who tried to ambush them in Samarra, north of Baghda
Protests of Bulgaria's bread-producers, taxi drivers, gas-distributors, city and inter-city transport companies, planned to take place in Sofia on Tuesday, have been canceled due to a refusal of the Sofia Municipality, the deputy chairman of the Union for
The Russian state civil aviation service has refused to name Russian carriers to conduct the regular flights to the Bulgarian Black Sea cities of Varna and Burgas, Russian newspaper Vedomosti wrote.
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is being held either on one of the military ships of the US-UK coalition in the Persian Gulf or at a land base of the allies, used during the war in Iraq, ITAR - ??SS reported, citing the Al Uatan newspaper. Hussein r
The capture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will not bring any help in tracking down weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, but will encourage more Iraqis to give information to the occupation forces, former United Nations chief weapons inspe
The USD 25 M reward on Saddam Hussein may go unclaimed since the information leading to his capture came under duress and from more than one person. According to CNN U.
Interior Minister Petkanov will present today the National Strategy for Organized Crime Combat for the period 2004-2005 at a working meeting with district governors and representatives of the local administration.
By Judy Dempsey in Brussels Financial Times
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg signed on Monday the ordinance for the dismissal of Deputy Finance Minister Krassimir Katev. Iliya Lingorski took up the vacant place on the same day.
Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim sent a demarche to Libya in defence of the six Bulgarian medics accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. He made that following his meeting with Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy earlier on
The number of employees in Bulgaria rose by 65,000 to 2.8 M during the first half of 2003, compared to the same period in 2002, preliminary data of the Agency for Economic Analyses and Forecasts report for 2003 country economy showed.
Bulgarian Socialistic Party will discuss the tabling of a non-confidence vote against the government due to the closing of units 3 and 4 of Bulgaria's only nuclear power plant in the town of Kozloduy, the party's deputy chairman, Rumen Petkov, said on Mon
North Korea rejected a US proposal to end a nuclear dispute and warned that Washington's "delaying tactics" would only prompt the communist government to step up development of atomic weapons. The North's main state-run newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, said the
Former US general Wesley Clark started giving evidence to the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague. Clark, was NATO's allied commander during the alliance's 1999 campaign against Yugoslavia which forced Milosevic's troops out of Kosovo.
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