A federal judge rejected attempts Thursday by Zacarias Moussaoui, indicted in connection with September 11 attacks, to plead guilty to federal conspiracy charges during a court hearing. "I am guilty," Moussaoui said at a federal court hearing.
The Social Ministry will come up with detailed estimates of the funds needed for retraining of Bulgartabac employees to be laid off after the tobacco monopoly goes private, it transpired at a discussion entitled The Social Consequences of Bulgartabac Priv
The Supreme Administrative Court repealed the texts of three regulations on calculating the prices and tariffs of electricity, heating and natural gas. Under the court ruling the inclusion of “other expenses” in the formulations is prohibited.
Morocco's foreign minister is to travel to Europe later on Friday to discuss his country's dispute with Spain over the tiny island of Perejil. Mohamed Benessai will hold talks in Paris and with the European Union in Brussels on the row, which was sparked
Harold Shipman is expected to be confirmed as Britain's worst mass murderer by an official report into his killings published on Friday. An inquiry into the case headed by Dame Janet Smith will publish its conclusions from the first phase of its investiga
A USD 800 M deal on the construction of an oil pipeline under the European Union INOGATE program will be signed in November by Serbia, Romania and Croatia, Dejan Trifofonovic of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce said quoted by Pari Daily. The pipeline will
Abstracted from XINHUA news agency The southeast European countries pledged on Thursday to improve their business environment to attract more investors home and abroad.
By Paul Anderson In the accident simulator room of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant, alarms ring and warning lights spring to life.
Prices of real estate properties increased by 1,4 % in the second quarter of 2002, reaching BGN 324 per sq m. Homes in the capital are most expensive – BGN 675 per sq m, which is an increase of 15% over the first quarter.
In an effort to improve the cohesion between Bulgarian and EU marine law, domestic marine shipping industry has proposed that the vessels of companies with predominantly foreign ownership are allowed to be listed in the Bulgarian ship register. The same h
Acting defence attache of the US Embassy in Sofia Pete Hoffmann visited the Defense Ministry July 18 in order to get a definitive position on the agreed destruction of Bulgaria’s SS-23, Scud and Frog missiles, Dnevnik Daily reported. The visit was prompte
The future owner of tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac Holidng will be barred form using the equity in the company for loan collateral, Nikola Nikolov, deputy chairman of the parliamentary economic committee, announced. Bulgartabac new owner will be able to col
The decision for closing the branches of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) aims to improve efficiency, BNB governor Svetoslav Gavriiski said after his meeting with 13 Burgas MPs from all parliamentary groups July 18, where the protests of the people in Bu
The European Investment Bank will release EUR 60 M for the upgrade of the electricity transmission system in Bulgaria. The Cabinet moved to Parliament a proposal for holding negotiations and signing of financial contract between Bulgaria, the National Ele
The Bulgarian side has presented evidence of its right to the possession of the assets and property of tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac, claimed by Russia. This was announced by Foreign Minster Passy, who underlined that the case has been carefully studied an
Brokers in foreign trade deals in arms and dual-use goods and technologies may be individuals and companies holding a licence for this kind of business, amendments to the law on control over foreign trade in arms and dual-use goods and services envisage.
Eminent scientist APJ Abdul Kalam has been elected India's new president. Announcing the result, India's election commission said Dr Kalam had defeated his only rival, Lakshmi Sahgal, with 89% of the vote being cast in his favour.
Israel is to freeze plans to lift some restrictions on Palestinians following Wednesday's double suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv that killed three bystanders and injured about 40 others.The unspecified plans, authorised hours before the attacks, were mean
The German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, has sacked Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping in a row over payments from the private sector. Only minutes before, Mr Scharping had said he would not step down.
The unemployment rate dropped to 17.24 % in June, which is 0.
A regulation on the state requirements for obtaining Bachelor, Master and Specialist degree was approved by the Cabinet July 18. The document will take effect in 2002-2003 academic year.
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