Iraq has said it will submit a declaration on its banned weapons programme on 7 December - a day ahead of a key United Nations deadline. "We are going to deliver this declaration in the proper time," said Hussam Mohammed Amin, the chief Iraqi official dea
14,800 long-term unemployed have been hired so far in 2002 under the nation-wide job programs of the Social Ministry. The data was published by Social Minister Lidya Shuleva.
The World Bank approved the results of a tender for the creation of public registry of lands and cadastre maps in nine Bulgarian districts and four small towns. The project is to be implemented over a five-year-period and is executed under a loan agreemen
Bulgaria's annual profit from the underground pipeline linking Bulgaria's Black Sea port of Burgas to the Albanian port of Vlora will amount to some USD 75-80 M, Rumen Nikolov, representative of Albanian, Macedonian and Bulgarian Oil Corporation (AMBO), f
All claims in the signal of the United Democratic Forces for wrongdoings in the privatisation procedure of the telecom are insinuations according to the Executive Director of the Privatization Agency Apostol Apostolov. He defined the signal as "a politica
An agreement for cooperation in preparing a feasibility study on the construction of a gas pipeline connecting Turkey and Austria was signed by Bulgaria's state-owned gas distributor Bulgargaz and another four central and eastern European oil and gas comp
A road accident in front of governmental seaside Evksinograd residence left fifteen slightly injured. A bus transporting workers to the Black-sea resort Golden Sands rolled over after the driver tried to escape a crash into a ford car.
The case regarding the complaint of eleven MPs from leftist "Coalition for Bulgaria" against the governmental decision on nuke units three and four will be heard again on December 11. The government did not present in courtroom on Tuesday the shorthand re
The government moved to better the absorption of EU pre-accession funds authorising Finance Minister Milen Velchev to coordinate them. The European programs PHARE, ISPA, SAPARD, ITEREG III have previously been run by the regional development or the agricu
A ten-kilometer patch of oil sails in the Bulgarian sector of the Danube, environmental experts from Vratsa announced. Border guards noticed the slick a week ago in the sector between Kozloduy and Oryahovo.
The sale of tickets for the newly established flag carrier Balkan Air Tour is expected to start later today, the spokeswoman of the transport ministry told novinite.com.
Italy's Prime Minister Berlusconi said Italy fully supported the construction of corridor VIII. That emerged after the private dinner between Berlusconi and Saxe-Coburg in Milan on Sunday evening.
The Greek government will grant EUR 54,29 M to support priority projects in Bulgaria over the next four years. Twenty percent of the sum will go to private projects as the contractors will be selected by the Greek side.
RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company is interested in acquiring a stake in Bulgarian company Bulgartabac in case Vienna-based Tobacco Holding wins the privatisation procedure for the tobacco monopoly. This transpired at a press conference at the Viennese headquart
The political discussion on the telecom deal stands in the way of the negotiations with the preferred buyer Viva Ventures, Ani Ruscheva, spokeswoman of the Privatization Agency, commented. On Monday rightist United Democratic Forces MPs approached the chi
A proposal to make a Saturday a day of protest in front of the courthouse in Seattle was expressed by Toni Peycheff, a member of the Bulgarian community in Seattle, in his letter to the Editors of novinite.com.
Bulgaria observes the International Day of Disabled Persons on December 3. On this occasion, Deputy Prime Minister and Social Minister Lydia Shuleva will meet representatives of the organisations of disabled in Bulgaria.
An Islamist web site on Monday has posted a statement purportedly from the al-Qaeda terror network, claiming responsibility for the twin attacks on Israeli targets in Kenya. The statement, which could not immediately be verified, also warned Muslims not t
A ceasefire agreement has been signed between Burundi's Government and the country's main rebel group. The ceremony came in the early hours of Tuesday morning, following a last-minute delay when the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) said the text
United Nations arms inspectors say Iraq has admitted trying to illegally import aluminium tubing to help build weapons. But the Iraqis say they tried to obtain the piping for use in conventional arms, and not nuclear weapons as the United States and Brita
The long-awaited concert of chart-breaking pop trio Las Ketchup sprang quite a surprise in Bulgaria December 3. It took no more than fifteen minutes for the sisters Pillar, Lola and Lucia to sing four songs - two of them covers of the hit Asereje - and sa
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