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The Bulgarian Socialist Party suspends negotiations with ruling Simeon II National Movement and junior coalition partner the Movement for Rights and Freedoms over the election of new Governor of Bulgaria's National Bank, it emerged after a meeting of repr
Business | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg summoned EU, NATO envoys to Sofia and informed them for the coming reshuffle in the country's Cabinet.
This took place at a working lunch organized by Bulgaria's prime minister.
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
President Parvanov expressed disapproval Wednesday of the cooperation between institutions and services in crime combat.
Legislative initiatives for creating a more efficient legal framework for crime combat were on the agenda of the Coordination Council
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
Bulgaria's police seized over 150 kilograms amphetamines in the Bulgarian town of Kustendil. This one of the record large amounts of drugs seized in Bulgaria over the last years.
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
Peace Corps trainees were sworn in the Bulgarian city of Pazardzhik, some 100km southeast of Sofia. The forty-one Americans underwent three-month training in Bulgaria.
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
US-led forces held two more Iraqis on Washington's most wanted list, after former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's interior minister was captured and another wanted top official surrendered, international agencies cited the U.S.
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
Bulgaria's Cabinet will suggest replacement of Bulgaria's sanitary company in Afghanistan with a mechanized platoon and instructors. The replacement is planned for September 2003.
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
Greek workers stage rallies in Thessalonica alleging their company - a soft drink producer - was ruined by investments in Bulgaria.
Business | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
Bulgaria's LB Bulgaricum and the South Korean company Vital Foods Co. LTD signed a 20-year contract granting a license for production of original Bulgarian yoghurt.
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
Bulgaria's volleyball team lost in a dramatic game 1:3 (25:21, 25:19, 25:23, 23:25) from Italy at the final tournament of World's Volleyball League. That was Bulgarian team's second match at the finals
Sports | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev does not fear the reshuffle in the Cabinet and has not been asked to leave his post, the Bulgarian National Radio said Wednesday.
Vassilev said that the reshuffle in the political lea
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
The Irish Ambassador Margaret Hennessy who resides in Greece held meetings in Sofia to discuss the establishment of an office in next-door Bulgaria. She had an interview with Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy as part of the preparation of the Sofi
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
A new campaign of the Bulgarian Sports Ministry called "The youth in action" kicks off Wednesday in the Bulgarian town of Haskovo. The aim of the campaign is to grant disabled people equal access to the sports facilities in Bulgaria.
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
Nearly 400 people are missing, feared drowned, after a ferry carrying about 750 people capsized and sank in south-eastern Bangladesh.
World | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
Bulgaria's pre-accession negotiations with the European Union (EU) entered a higher stage and the country is no longer the passive side, Bulgaria's Euro-integration Minister Meglena Kuneva said Wednesday.
Kuneva's statement came hours before EU Enlargeme
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
A Romanian barge has subsided at the 820.5 kilometre of the Bulgarian part of the Danube River.
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
The splinter group that left Bulgaria's ruling party in March will not rejoin it even though the break-away MPs commended the reshuffles in the incumbent floor group. The leader of the recently set parliamentary group - National Ideal for Unity (NIE) - wa
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
It is "almost impossible" that Libyan court would let Bulgarian medics out on bail, Osman Bizanti, the Libyan defense lawyer of the medics said Wednesday.
The Benghazi court proceeded with the Bulgarian medics case on July 8 and did not respect the claim
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
After touring a former slave house and paying homage to the humans who were sold there, President Bush is visiting the place where the apartheid system of white-minority rule further oppressed black Africans through the 20th century. With a decision pendi
World | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
Ten tones of naphtha were spilled on a road near the Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora after a cistern crash Wednesday. However, the spilled fuel didn't reach the shores of the nearby river but possible ecological damages are still to be specified.
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
The new focus of Bulgaria's Cabinet and parliamentary majority will be the social issues. This forecast comes from the freshly elected floor leader of the ruling Simeon II National Movement Stanimir Ilchev.
Politics | July 9, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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