The United States has successfully destroyed a missile in space with a rocket fired from a Navy ship, hours after a treaty with Russia ending a ban on missile defence systems came into effect.Pentagon officials said the exercise showed an incoming missile
Africa has lost $140bn through corruption in the decades since independence, Nigeria's president, Olusegun Obasanjo has said. The huge sum - largely spirited away by leaders and their associates - was one of the main reasons why Africa's poverty was so se
The World Food Summit in Rome has ended without achieving anything, delegates have said. Officials from poor countries say it was largely a waste of time anyway, as the governments of wealthy countries did not take it seriously.
The leader of America's Roman Catholic bishops has opened a summit on clerical sexual abuse with a frank apology to victims of predatory priests.As Bishop Wilton Gregory begged forgiveness from all those touched by the sex abuse scandals which have rocked
The quality of Black Sea water and endemic biodiversity have been steadily improving over the past seven years, research shows. The results were announced by Black Sea Protection Commission at its 9th working session, hosted by Sofia.
Chile plans to open an embassy in Bulgaria by 2004, it transpired after the meeting of the President of the Chilean Senate Andres Saldivar with Parliamentary Speaker Gerdzhikov. This is the first visit by a Chilean delegation here since the two country re
”Norway strongly supports the dedicated efforts being made by your country to become more closely integrated into Euro-Atlantic and European cooperation structures,” the first Sofia-based Ambassador of Norway H.E.
His Excellency Rolf Baltzersen, the first Sofia-based Ambassador of Norway, presented his credentials to Bulgarian President Parvanov in November last year. The first Royal Norwegian Embassy in Sofia was opened on April 30.
The commitment of the state and all institutions to a transparent and fair trial for the Bulgarian medics in Libya was the pronounced aim of the President Parvanov’s meeting with relatives of six Bulgarians, charged with intentionally infecting 393 Libyan
"This subject has been considered so many times and will probably be raised a lot more times until 2006," Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg said asked to comment on the news that on June 10 the World Council of Nuclear Workers (WONUC) and the syndicat
The private Kremikovtzi steel maker has requested from the Economy Ministryto introduce protective customs duties of up to thirty percent on some types of steel imports. This measure would allow domestic steel producers to regain 50 percent of the domesti
Kraft Foods Bulgaria, Germanos, Sony Bulgaria, Group 4 Securitas, Hilti are among the companies that are moving a new business park in Sofia. The business park opened on June 14 in the Mladost quarter in the outskirts of Sofia after the first phase of the
The Sofia Municipality will apply for funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for a study to determine the parking needs of the city, Sofia Mayor Sofianski told Dnevnik Daily. Sofianski is expected to ask the Sofia municip
Bulgaria’s Nuclear Power Plant Kozloduy will pay an insurance premium of USD 280,000 this year to the Bulgarian National Insurance Pool under a draft insurance policy against nuclear accident approved by the government on Thursday. The policy is covered w
Turkey’s Ceylan Holding declined to withdraw from its join venture with the Bulgarian National Electricity Transmission Company (NETC) that was set to implement the key Gorna Arda project in Southern Bulgaria. Ceylan proposed to draw another Turkish compa
The investigation, ordered by the Arraignment Chamber on the case against the six Bulgarian medics in Libya, may start within the next two days, the medics’ Libyan lawyer Osman Bizanti told the Bulgarian News Agency. In his opinion this investigation is a
The European Parliament urged Bulgaria and Romania to do more to fight corruption at a session on June 13. The European Union's Parliament urged EU governments Thursday to stick to their pledge to conclude membership talks with 10 candidate countries by t
Fees at state universities will go up by more than 8% in 2002-2003. The Cabinet fixed the fees for entrance and education in state-owned institutions for higher education June 13.
Electricity bills will increase with an average of 15% for half of the Bulgarian population, starting July 1, Energy Minister Milko Kovachev, said. His statement followed syndicates’ reports on planned electricity and heating price hikes.
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he has no doubt Pakistan would take action against al-Qaeda militants if they were found to be operating in Kashmir. But Mr Rumsfeld, apparently rowing back on earlier comments, said he had no direct evidence that
Georgi Popov, the Managing Director of tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac Holding, and Georgi Tassev, partner in “Soiuzcontract Tabac”, were interrogated by a city prosecutor June 13. This is the second time that Popov comes to the Prosecutor’s Office, after he
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