Heavy floods in Eastern China killed thirteen people and left more than a million stranded, China's official Xinhua news agency reported. Almost 380,000 people living in the flooded Huai River valley had been evacuated, adding that rising water had cut of
A split opened up between the UK and the United States over a claim that Iraq sought to buy uranium from the West African state of Niger. The US acknowledged for the first time that the claim might be wrong and that President Bush should not have referred
Brazil won a 3:1 victory over Bulgaria's volleyball team at the final tournament of World's Volleyball Championship. That was Bulgarian team's first match at the finals.
Seven members of the banned in Turkey Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) were arrested in Bulgaria's second city Plovdiv. The police detained the seven who are of Kurdish origin after a Turkish national complained they tried to blackmail him.
Two Bulgarian sailors that survived a shipwreck in the Red Sea will return home Wednesday, Bulgaria's Foreign ministry spokesman Lyubomir Todorov said Tuesday.
Some 3,500 tourists from Hungary are expected to spend their 2003 summer vacation at Bulgaria's coastal resorts. Some of the Hungarians already arrived at Bulgaria' Black Sea coast for the first time after ten years of disinterest for Bulgaria as a touris
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.
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