Interior Minister Georgi Petkanov announced that the government has drafted a law to block financial support of terrorism. It is still not known when the bill will be tabled in Parliament.
Pope John Paul II will be constantly surrounded by six of his personal bodyguards during his visit in Bulgaria (www.popeinbulgaria.
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“I don’t see a problem with the Cabinet writing off the BGN 127 M debt of the State Railways Company,” Jerald Schiff, head of the IMF mission to Bulgaria said after meeting with Bulgaria’s Transport Minister Plamen Petrov. Transforming the company’s debt
Turkey’s President Ahmed Sezer confirmed that his country actively supports Bulgaria’s and Romania’s bids for NATO membership. He explained that Turkey has been working for the accession of the two countries to the Alliance by lobbying on many levels.
The rightist opposition Union of Democratic Forces will approach the Constitutional Court on Classified Information Protection Act and revoking of the State Security Act, Parliament adopted April 24. The UDF is preparing a list of amendments to the Act de
Fifth and sixth units of Nuclear Power Plant Kozloduy after their modernization is finalized in the end of 2006, the Bulgarian news agency reported, quoting the Executive Director of Siemens – Bulgaria Petur Mishev. Simens is one of the companies that exe
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon branded the Palestinian leadership a "corrupt terror regime" Tuesday and said there could be no peace until it undertook sweeping internal reforms. Sharon was addressing Israel's parliament two days after the central co
A small earthquake was felt in the Plovdiv region at noon. The quake, with magnitude of 2,8 on the Richter scale, was registered at 12:55 pm 140 kilometers away from the capital Sofia, officials from the Geophysical Institute with the Bulgarian Academy of
Turkey is twelfth in terms of investments in Bulgaria with some USD 128 M during the last ten years, it emerged at a Bulgarian-Turkish business forum.
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The organization of a joint meeting of Bulgaria’s Parliament and the two chambers of Romania’s Parliament is being seriously discussed and the majority of the Bulgarian MPs agree the meeting to take place in September. That was announced by Stanimir Ilche
The first train in Bulgaria, specially fit for disabled people, was launched in operation on May 14. The train will travel in the section Sofia-Plovdiv-Stara Zagora – Burgas once a day.
Svetlana Gebreva, Deputy Director of State construction control, diseased early in the morning of May 14 at the age of 36. She has an eleven-years old son.
President Georgi Parvanov will participate in the fifth meeting of Presidents of Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey, which will be held in the Turkish resort of Cesme. The three sides are meeting to exchange views on regional and global issues of common interes
A sharp but moderate earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area Monday night, rattling nerves and buildings from San Jose to northern Marin County but causing no initial reports of damage or injuries. The United States Geological Survey said the quake, w
Three North Koreans who sought asylum in a US consulate in China are headed for freedom in South Korea. The three men, who climbed over the consulate wall in the north-eastern Chinese city of Shenyang last week, are expected to arrive in Seoul shortly, ha
The Privatization Agency invited bids on March 13 for three hydropower plants. Bidding for the Razlog power plant starts at BGN 412,000, for the Cherni Vit plant at BGN 250,000 and for the Ledenik plant at BGN 46,000.
Pope John Paul II devotes four hours every day to getting knowledge of the Bulgarian language, guided and assisted by the Bulgarian priest Father Peter. The Head of the Roman-Catholic Church will serve a mass in Bulgarian during his visit to Plovdiv, whic
Former US President Jimmy Carter says American officials have told him there is no evidence of Cuba exporting technology that could be used in weapons of mass destruction. He made the remark on a visit to a bio-technology laboratory in the Cuban capital,
Indian police say 29 people have been killed in an attack by suspected militants on an army camp in Indian-administered Kashmir. The dead include a number of civilians as well as the militants.
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