Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was in good condition at a hospital in India after falling ill with stomach pains, a hospital official has said. He has undergone some tests after being flown to the Lilawati Hospital and Research Center in the In
Loud blasts and machine gun fire were heard early Monday morning in Kandahar as U.S.
Osama bin Laden is likely alive and will be caught, top Bush administration officials said Sunday, but his capture isn't necessary to disrupt global terrorism, they stressed.
Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai called on expatriates to return home and help rebuild their shattered homeland.
Saudi Arabian officials have asked the United States to reduce its military presence in their country, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told CNN on Sunday.
A rise of 15% in poultry meat exports are expected in 2002 over the previous year. Domestic consumption will follow the same tendency – 1,6%, with rise in production projected at 2%.
60% of the hotels will go bankrupt due to the high patent taxes, the Association of Hoteliers and Restauranteurs forecasts. In a declaration, addressed to Parliament and the Government, the representatives of the association, write that the high taxes wil
A Pakistani group seeking better conditions for prisoners being held by the US in Cuba says it has kidnapped an American journalist who went missing last week. The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty released a photograph of the
MobilTel intends to launch GPRS (General Packed Radio Services) by the end of 2002, the company’s executive director Rumyana Kyuchukova told Pari Daily. The biggest Bulgarian GSM operator will invest EUR 50 M in the construction of the system after signin
Fourteen senior Russian officials, including a deputy interior minister, have died after a military helicopter crashed during a flight over the breakaway republic of Chechnya. It is still unclear whether the helicopter, carrying General Mikhail Rudchenko
Bulgaria started to import sunseed oil from Ukraine and rapseed oil from Germany, Reuters announced. Reuters said that total vegetable imports reached in 2001/02 10,000 tons and another 30,000 tonnes would be imported in the rest of the season till the en
The Government is preparing amendments to the Trade Act that would enable to launch a rehabilitation program for the debt-ridden flag carrier Balkan Airlines, overriding objections by the company’s majority owner, Israeli businessman Gad Zeevi, government
New vineyards will be grown on an area of 1,000 hectares in the municipalities of Veliko Turnovo, Pavlikeni and Harmanli in Southern Bulgaria. The investment of BGN 15 M will be made of a Bulgarian-Hungarian holding.
Ministers and MPs of the Simeon II National Movement (SIINM) described Saturday's speech of leader of Simeon II National Movement and Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg as just criticism but said it was not a sign of forthcoming cabinet changes. They belie
Almost all participants in the conference “New political realities and Bulgaria’s fate in the third millennium” supported the idea of establishing a civic parliament. According to Yane Yanev, leader of the National Association Bulgarian Agrarian People’s
A total of 44 foreign nationals were stopped from illegally crossing the Bulgarian -Turkish border last night. The two groups were made up of 27 and 17 persons respectively.
Thick fog prevented Sofia airport from resuming normal work January 27. Only two planes departed from the airport, while all arriving, except the plane from Vienna, were diverted.
Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Australia to show solidarity with nearly 200 Afghan asylum seekers who are on their twelfth day of a hunger strike. Australia's immigration minister is standing firm on the policy, already slammed by the United Nati
One Israeli was killed and more than 110 people were injured in a Palestinian suicide bombing attack midday Sunday in the center of west Jerusalem, CNN reported, citing Israeli authorities. It was the second attack in the same area in less than a week.
President Parvanov is seriously concerned about the increasing contradictions in the judicial system, a statement of the President's legal advisor Plamen Kirov, reads. The tensions in the system can prompt political intervention, which will interfere with
New Year’s celebrations checked the fall in consumer confidence and the index retained its November levels of -30, data of the monthly GfK Bulgaria survey, show. The negligible rise of 1% is attributed to optimistic expectations for the next 12 months, ra
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