The talks on a Bulgarian-Italian agreement to lift the visa requirements for passenger and freight motor carriers have began, the Italian Embassy in Sofia announced.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said he is encouraged that a solution can be found in the military standoff between India and Pakistan centred on Kashmir. Mr Powell, who has ended a visit to India as part of a peace-making tour of South Asia
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has said Baghdad is ready for another full-scale attack by America but would defeat any new military campaign.
French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has suffered a setback after the country's highest court ruled that a bill to give the island of Corsica limited self-government was unconstitutional. The Constitutional Council threw out legislation to give the trouble
Bankrupt energy giant Enron has fired the accountancy firm Andersen as the company's auditors with immediately effect. Andersen has been widely criticised for its handling of the Enron account, especially after the revelation that it destroyed documents r
Hundreds of thousands of people are said to be fleeing in panic after lava from volcanic eruptions engulfed the town of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Eyewitnesses said huge areas of Goma were ablaze after a massive lava flow from t
Israeli aircraft have attacked a Palestinian security headquarters in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, just hours after six Israelis were killed and more than 20 injured in an attack in northern Israel. Palestinian sources said one policeman was killed and
Tobacco monopoly Bulgaratabac Holding, slated for privatization, saw 2001 profit slightly increase due to a 8% growth of sales in the country, Reuters reported, quoting the Holding’s Executive Director Georgi Popov. According to him preliminary estimates
The starting price for the full 99,6% state stake in Biochim bank will be set at BGN 95 M, Krassimir Katev, Deputy Finance Minister, said. The price includes the bank’s 2001 net profit.
NASDAQ-listed software maker AremisSoft might cancel its contract with the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) on the development of its software in case the Fund fails to pay BGN 2 M for the software products. The possibility of erasing the modules del
The Cabinet postponed its decision on the establishment of an Economic Growth Council. Representatives of the business club Vuzrazhdane met Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg, his deputies and Finance Minister Milen Velchev to discuss future cooperation in Novemb
The United States Government donated USD 14,000 to agency “Customs.” The funds will be used for fight against drugs trafficking.
Bilateral trade and ways of stepping up contacts in different sectors will be discussed by the Bulgarian-Turkish joint intergovernmental committee on economic and technical cooperation, which will take place on January 22-23 in Sofia. It will be chaired b
The Bulgarian Government approved with consensus a scheme for the privatization of Bulgartabac Holding Group at its regular meeting on January 17, Nikolay Vassilev, Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister said. 80% of Bulgartabac's capital are expected
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Visa regulations for businessmen, organized tourist groups, mixed marriages and treatment are to be relaxed for Bulgarians and Ukrainians, according to an agreement between Ukraine and Bulgaria, approved by the Bulgarian Government on January 17. The Cabi
A senior Palestinian militant has died in a shootout with Israeli troops, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. The man, identified by Palestinian medical sources as Khamis Ahmed Ali Abdullah, was said to be a senior member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
A suspended student who opened fire Wednesday at a law school in southwestern Virginia, leaving three people dead and three others wounded, was described as "a time bomb" by a local doctor who recently treated him for stress. One of those killed was the d
At an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of Lukoil Heftochim – Burgas, it was decided deputy economy minister Nikola Yankov to replace Petko Tanev from his position representative of the state with the Supervisory Board of the company. The meeting,
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Roma continued to suffer shocking levels of harassment, violent attacks, and malicious discrimination in Bulgaria, marring much of the region's record of progress on other human rights issues, a 2001 annual report of the American organization “Human Right
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