Bulgaria and Romania will work on a joint project to improve shipping on the Danube River in its most difficult section, shared between the two countries. Carrying out the project will take a total of EUR 340 M.
Bulgaria's Cabinet will be most probably reshuffled before the summer recess of the Parliament due in August. This is what the country's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg said Tuesday hours before his party is expected to choose a new floor leader.
The next hearing in the trial against the six Bulgarian medics in Libya, accused of intentionally infecting Libyan children with HIV, was set for August 4. The Benghazi court proceeded with the Bulgarian medics case on July 8.
Bulgaria moved up five positions in the Human Development Index ranking, the annual Global Human Development Report showed Tuesday. The report was prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ranks 175 countries according to achievement
Two conjoined adult Iranian twins have died following unprecedented surgery to separate them, international agencies reported, citing officials at Singapore's Raffles Hospital. Ladan Bijani died due to a loss of blood as the separation of the twins' brain
The European Union (EU) Enlargement Commissioner Gunter Verheugen will make a review on progress in Bulgaria's pre-accession efforts. Ferheugen will arrive July 9th on a two-day official visit to Bulgaria.
The Board of Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the third review of the implementation of the two-year stand-bay agreement between Bulgaria and the Fund. The move greenlighted a new USD 36,5 M tranche to Bulgaria to be
Communication between Bulgarian people and politicians is difficult and inefficient, Bulgarian sociologist Mira Yanova said Monday. Eighty percent of the country's residents disapprove politician's actions or are unwilling to understand the reasons behin
Roma political structures in Bulgaria are inefficient and need to involve more actively in the state administration, report of the US National Democracy Institute (NDI) showed. In February-March 2003 the NDI made a research on the opportunities for Roma
The Cabinet reshuffle may affect ministers from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Ahmed Dogan, leader of the junior coalition partner, the predominantly ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, said Tuesday.
The ruling party has delivered on most of its promises in terms of economy, expert Vladimir Karolev said. 90 percent of the pre-election economy program has been implemented, he pointed out amid high-pitched expectations for governmental reshuffle.
One of the conjoined adult Iranian twins separated after unprecedented surgery has died, CNN reported, citing officials at Singapore's Raffles Hospital.
A wave of strikes will be staged in different regions in the country, starting from September 20, said Zhelyazko Hristov, chairman of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB). In the words of Zhelyazkov Bulgaria is set for a hot t
Finance Minister Milen Velchev said Tuesday that within three days he is to propose to Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg candidacies for deputy finance minister, to replace Gati Al Jebouri, who handed his resignation to Bulgaria's PM Simeon Saxe- Coburg a
A blast levelled a house in an Israeli village near the West Bank, killing the 65-year-old woman who lived there and an unidentified man. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg is expected to announce today nominations for new leaders of Simeon II National Movement parliamentary group. New leadership will be elected at a meeting of the parliamentary group to replace floor leader Plam
A Sudanese airliner crashed early Tuesday shortly after taking off from Port Sudan airport, killing 105 passengers and 11 crew, international agencies reported. According to Sudan News Agency only a child has survived the crash but it is still not known w
The new hearing of the case against the six Bulgarian medics in Libya, accused of intentionally infecting Libyan children with HIV, is to be held today in the town of Benghazi. The defense lawyers already announced they do not expect concrete results tod
Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to root out Chechen separatists, following the suicide bombings at a Moscow rock festival on Saturday which killed 15 people. "They must be dug up out of their basements and caves, where they are still hiding,
The arrest of Turkish troops by US forces in northern Iraq has caused a "crisis in relations" between the two Nato armed forces, according to the chief of Turkey's armed forces. The 11 soldiers were returned by helicopter from Baghdad on Monday to their b
A US military team has arrived in the Liberian capital Monrovia to assess how best to bring stability to the war-ravaged West African country. The 20-strong group of military civil affairs specialists is being seen as a possible forerunner of a larger US
Google Street View Cars Return to Bulgaria for Major Mapping Update
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