Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg expressed condolences to the British Royal Family on Sunday when Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother passed away, the spokeswoman of the Cabinet Tsvetelina Uzunova told journalists Monday. Considering the prime min
The number of Bulgarians travelling abroad increased with nearly 11 percent during the last year after the removal of the visa requirements and it reached 2,8 millions. The opportunity to travel without visas has led to sharp fall in the violations, which
Anthony Shadid, a reporter in the Washington Bureau of the Boston Globe, was shot on April 1 as he walked from Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's compound toward the center of Ramallah.
US authorities are holding a man captured in Pakistan who is believed to be a senior member of the al-Qaeda terror network, a US official has said, quoted by BBC. The man is thought to be Abu Zubaydah, a key deputy of Osama Bin Laden, the man suspected t
An earthquake measuring at least 6.8 in magnitude jolted Taiwan in the afternoon of April 1, killing five people and injuring more than 200 others, while igniting fires, cracking buildings and shutting down the subway system in the island's capital city.
The coffin of the Queen Mother rested Monday in a small stone chapel at Windsor Castle where the Royal Family privately mourned her before she is taken to lie in state in London. Troops in a dozen locations around the country and in the colony of Gibralta
Reuters Bulgaria's main interest rate will fall to an annual 4.
Bulgaria’s flag carrier Balkan Airlines will lay off 500 employees in April, the company's spokesperson announced. This is envisaged in the rehabilitation program of the carrier and is also one of the requirements of the creditors, tabled in Court last we
Experts from Armenia, Germany, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, France, the Czech Republic and Yugoslavia took part in the 20th meeting of the international group of experts who discussed the technical level of the N-plant Kozloduy armature. The experts visited
The number of crimes for the first quarter of the year went down by 15% over the same period last year, data of the National police show. Three towns- Stara Zagora, Blagoevgrad and Shumen – registered the sharpest fall.
The intention of the Bulgarian Socialist Party to establish shadow cabinet was described as a normal practice by Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg and President Parvanov, who expressed the opinion that every political power is free to choose how to show its atti
The National Bureau Green Card is to be officially opened today, terminating the monopoly of Bulstrad on automobile insurance for travelling abroad, called Green Card. The Bureau was established in July 2001 by eleven insurance companies– Alianz Bulgaria,
By George Jahn The Associated Press
Two masked Palestinian gunmen entered an intelligence building in the West Bank town of Tulkarm on Monday and killed eight men suspected of collaborating with Israel, security sources and witnesses said, quoted by Reuters. The security sources said Palest
Bulgaria’s State Saving Bank DSK should be sold by June 30, 2003, Nelly Kordovska, Executive Director of the Bank Consolidation Company said. The Bank Consolidation Company (BCC), the government body that manages the privatisation of state banks, adopted
During summer 2002 the flights of only three of all 19 planes of Bulgarian airlines Hemus Air are to be affected by European Union new requirements, Dimitur Pavlov, Executive Director of Hemus Air, said. His statement was prompted by the announcement that
Some 1,000 employees of the Vratsa-based fertilizer plant Chimco blocked the key international road E-79 between Sofia and Vidin in the section of Vratsa. The employees insisted that they receive their salaries for January, February and March.
Bulgaria expects to receive USD 30 M till the end of the year from the World Bank for timbering. The Minister of Agriculture and forestry said that in an interview for Bulgarian National Radio.
Milen Keremedchiev who was appointed deputy economy minister two weeks ago heads a Bulgarian delegation, which left on April 1 on a five-day official visit to Sudan. There the Bulgarian officials will hold talks for the settlement of the Sudanese debt to
“China is among the most important partners Bulgaria has, “ Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Passy declared at a Bulgarian-Chinese business forum in Beijing. He pointed out that it was not accidental that his visit will be followed by a visit of Nikolay Vassil
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