Spanish entrepreneurs in the tourist sector view with apprehension the combination of Sept. 11 consequences and the rivalry posed by countries in the Mediterranean region, AFP reported.
Flooding triggered by a week of monsoon rains in north-eastern India has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the state of Assam. Officials fear an outbreak of water-borne diseases and say food supplies are running short.
Within a few months Sofia will become the capital of the Balkan professional boxing world, Bulgarian Boxing Union (BGBU) President Vassil Kirov announced. Sofia will host the constituent congress of a Balkan Boxing Union (BKBU), to be based also in the Bu
Bulgarian abroad need a new and solid law, which will provide that they do budiness and study under the same conditions as the Bulgarians in the country, President Parvanov said at his meeting with representatives of the Bulgarian community in Croatia and
The Afghan Minister for Public Works, Haji Abdul Qadir, has been shot dead in the capital Kabul. Government officials said Mr Qadir, who was also one of the country's three vice-presidents, was shot in the head as he left his ministry.
The agreement on mutual dropping of the visa requirements between Latvia and Bulgaria is a great achievement for business and tourism, Latvia’s Foreign Minister Indulis Berzins commented after signing the agreement with Bulgarian Foreign Minister Passy. T
The infrastructure projects for Corridor VIII and the Sofia-Skopje railway line featured high on the agenda of the talks between Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg and his Macedonian counterpart Boris Trajkovski. The two conferred within the Summit of NATO
Customs officers seized 11kg of heroin on the Yovkovo border checkpoint (on the Romanian border). Three Bulgarian nationals bound for Romania were arrested.
Five Bulgarians were reported injured at a crash between a Bulgarian microbus and a truck in the region of Gyurgevo, Romania. The injured Bulgarians have been taken to the University hospital in the Romanian capital.
Security agencies in both California and Cairo are trying to find the motive for a gun attack at Los Angeles airport in which an Egyptian man killed two people before being shot dead himself. FBI agents have searched the apartment in Irving, California of
Russian space officials have announced an ambitious project to send people to Mars by 2015. Leaders of the Russian space programme said the plan needed international co-operation and they hoped to win support from both the US National Aeronautics and Spac
The head of American troops in Afghanistan, General Dan McNeil, has promised a thorough investigation into an incident in which civilians were killed by US bombs in Uruzgan province.General McNeill told a joint press-conference in Kabul that, according to
The Foreign Ministry assesses Bulgaria’s work at the UN Security Council as successful, Deputy Foreign Minister Petko Draganov said at the opening of a roundtable on "Bulgaria: Half a Year in UN Security Council." The positive reactions to Bulgaria’s stan
President Bush, in a videotaped long-distance speech on Friday, told former East Bloc countries that hope to join NATO that the United States will work "arm in arm" with them to build a free and united Europe.
Former East Bloc countries seeking to join NATO got a strong endorsement but also a warning from the United States as they came together for the last time before the alliance announces historic plans for expansion in November.
Representatives of the seven companies shortlisted to bid for the consulting contract for Danube Bridge 2, are on a visit in Vidin. The candidates are touring the site at the 796th kilometer on the Danube, where the bridge, spanning the river at Vidin and
An explosion with a similar power to the one that would be in case of SS-23 missiles destruction was demonstrated at the military firing ground in the village of Koren. The Mayor of Stara Zagora and regional governors were invited to observe the ecologica
The Privatization Agency will announce in ten days whether it allows two of the Bulgartabac Holding candidates to form consortia, Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev and Agriculture Minister Mehmed Dikme announced at a joint news conference. The two ministe
The active political dialogue between Bulgaria and Croatia should lead to concrete results in the trade-economic cooperation, President Parvanov said at Croatia’s Parliament during the second day of his visit there. He underlined that the two countries ha
State Energy Regulation Commission granted license to US power company AES for construction and exploitation of Maritsa East 1 thermal power plant. The project makes fast progress, Peter Barett, Executive Director of Maritsa East 1 project, said.
MPs of the rightist opposition party United Democratic Forces (UDF) assessed negatively the work of the Parliament, which in their opinion, is also the stand of the greater part of the Bulgarian people. According to Alexander Pramatarksi, who spoke on beh
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