On Monday all schools in Bulgaria held a special class dedicated to the Holocaust and the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews. The classes called "dignity classes" will continue till the end of the week.
Bulgaria will vote in favor of the second resolution on Iraq in the United Nations Security Council, the government announced on Monday after an urgent meeting. Stefan Tafrov, ambassador to the UN Security Council, was instructed from Sofia to say that B
Romania has expelled five Iraqi diplomats for conducting activities "incompatible" with their status the Foreign Ministry has said. A statement from the ministry said that the presence of the diplomats had become "undesirable".
A general election is to be held in Malta next month, the prime minister has announced. The announcement came only two days after the people of Malta voted in a referendum to join the European Union.
The Palestinian parliament has voted overwhelmingly to create a new post of prime minister, in what is seen as a significant reform move. The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, finally agreed last month to loosen his grip on power after persistent interna
One of Germany's biggest tour operators TUI will launch a winter program for Bulgaria's three winter resorts: Pamporovo, Bansko and Borovets. That emerged after a meeting of Deputy Economy Minister, responsible for tourism Dimitur Hadzhinikolov and TUI's
Hristo Hristev, deputy chair of the Bulgarian Socialist Youth Party, was appointed representative of the Central and Eastern member countries to the Bureau of the European Community Organisation of Socialist Youth ECOSY. For two years he will be responsib
Deutsche Bank-owned consortium Tobacco Capital Partners was named preferred buyer of an 80% stake in Bulgaria's tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac, the Cabinet decided at an extraordinary meeting March 10.
Two more KC-10A tanker jets landed at Sarafovo airport, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Sofia, over the weekend. This brings the total number of US tanker planes at Sarafovo up to sixteen.
Moskovska street around the building of the British embassy in Sofia is closed, the Bulgarian News Agency reported, quoting Georgi Vassilev, head of the transport committee with the Sofia Municipal Council. The transport committee allowed the closure in c
Interior Minister Georgi Petkanov announced that all police units are on alert and this will be in force for a couple of days more. The murder of billionaire Iliya Pavlov and Moldovian Stepan Rubakov triggered the need for bigger police presence all over
German tour operator Thomas Cook AG is creating a special fund, amounting to EUR 100 M. The funds will be used for reconstruction and building of nearly 15 hotels in Bulgaria.
The United States hasn't requested from Bulgaria to increase its military troops in the country, Defense Minister Nikolay Svinarov announced before the urgent meeting of the Cabinet on Monday. He denied information for requests Bulgaria's territory to be
Russia announced it would vote against the new draft resolution on Iraq, submitted by the United States and Britain. The move means that Russia would veto the U.
Customs officers at Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint (on the Bulgarian-Turkish border) seized 19 kg of marijuana late on Sunday. The drug was hidden under the dashboard of a Renault car with Bosnian licence plates bound from Kosovo to Turkey.
The Constitutional Court instituted separate cases on all filed claims against the amendments to the Privatisation Act.
Economic motives are at the root of Iliya Pavlov's murder, said former Chief of National Security Service General Atanass Atanassov.
The Bulgarian government will have an extraordinary meeting today. The murder of Bulgaria's wealthiest businessman Iliya Pavlov will be top on the agenda.
North Korea has test-fired a missile into the sea off its coast, the South Korean defence ministry has said. It was Pyongyang's second missile test in the past two weeks, following a launch on 24 February as South Korea was inaugurating its new president,
Five members of the Caliphate, an Islamic organization banned in Germany and Turkey, have been interrogated in the Bulgarian town of Pazadzhik March 10.
Interior Minister Georgi Petkanov said that the authorities were working on seven or eight versions for the murder of Bulgaria's wealthiest businessman Iliya Pavlov. He declined to specify any.
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