Palestinian militant groups denied that they had agreed a three-month ceasefire. The deal was put in doubt in any event after Israeli troops killed two Hamas militants in the Gaza strip.
Over 200 workers from slated for privatisation Bulgaria's electricity distribution companies in the capital Sofia and the Danube town of Russe continued the protests against job cuts that were initiated a day earlier by their colleagues in Stara Zagora.
Overgas will become the only provider of Russian gas in Bulgaria, Energy and Energy Resources Minister Milko Kovachev announced. He underlined that the move would not result in electricity price hikes.
Bulgaria's major goal is to work so that the report of Professor Vittorio Collizi and Professor Luc Montaigner is accepted as evidence by the Libyan court, Foreign Minister Passy said after the meeting of the parliamentary foreign policy committee. The r
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Laboring mightily, the European Union is moving toward adopting a constitution for the now 15-country body, scheduled to be expanded to 25 members in May of next year.
A Policeman's Ethic Code was compiled by Bulgarian experts and reps of the Council of Europe. The document which took over a year to prepare constitutes the way Bulgarian policeman should look and behave.
A fund will be set with the Social Ministry to distribute grants, covering up to 20% of the cost in implementing projects that increase safe at the workplace. The fund will have BGN 1, 2 M in 2003, PHARE is expected to release funding the next year.
Only one in every five smokers in Bulgaria succeeds in shedding the bad habit, data shows. Experts explain the low rate of success with lack of motivation.
JP Morgan is interested in Bulgaria's real estate market, it emerged at a meeting of Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev with representatives of the financial institution in London.
Statisticians counted 1,458 Bulgarian children who left social institutions following adoptions over the last year. The data comes from a survey of the National Statistical Institute on the health care and social institutions across the country.
Should Bulgaria's Parliament move to vote amendments to the Constitution, they must concern reforms in the legal system, President Parvanov said at a roundtable "Social Commitments of the Business - Realities and Prospects", organized by the Friedrich Ebe
Sir Denis Thatcher, the husband of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has died, a spokesman for the family has announced. The 88-year-old, who had heart surgery in January this year, returned to hospital after feeling unwell two weeks ago.
Yasser Arafat says he expects an announcement "within hours" on an agreement by Palestinian militias to suspend attacks on Israelis. The Palestinian leader's comments are the strongest sign yet that a temporary truce will be offered by the three main mili
A project aiming to encourage the relations between the people from different ethnic groups and preserving the identity of the minorities in Bulgaria started June 26. Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, Nejdet Mollov, minister without portfolio an
A Bulgarian military contingent will be given in Kuwait the privileges and the immunity of administrative and technical personnel according to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Bulgaria's Cabinet adopted Thursday a decree for implementing the UN Security Counil resolution, which freezes any assets in the names of ousted President Saddam Hussein and other high-ranking officials abroad.
Bulgarian violin-player virtuoso Vasko Vassilev, together with the Voodoo Orchestra group he leads, are leaving for Italy to attend the party of one of the stars of UK music Sting and his wife Trudi Styler, to be thrown on the occasion of their wedding's
A student of the Bulgarian University for Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy will spend a one-month summer internship in Greece funded by Bulgarian realtor A.D.
Italian investors have declared their interest in participating in the expansion of Sofia's subway as well as in building hydropower plants in cooperation with Sofia's municipality, the Mayor of the Italian city Milan Gabriele Albertini said Thursday. Th
Bulgarian top model Tanya Ilieva will feature in a high-profile photo session alongside Naomi Campbell. The beauty represented by Bulgarian agency Visage will leave for next-door Turkey to sport the bathing suits of Zeki Triko for the company's new catalo
Bulgaria pledged to increase army spending by at least 2.6 percents of the country's GDP to the end of 2006, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy said at the opening of the international conference "NATO after Prague: New Members, Efficiency and Coope
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