A major clean-up operation is under way after a cargo ship carrying more than 700 tonnes of fuel ran aground off the coast of New Zealand. Environmental teams have begun rescuing wildlife affected by oil leaking from the ship, a few hundred metres from th
A man has gone on a shooting spree in South Africa after a row with his girlfriend, killing her and at least nine other people before turning the gun on himself. Police said the killings happened in a black district in the port city of East London, 900 ki
Protesting Greek farmers called off a two-week campaign, which caused traffic delays along the Bulgarian-Greek border because of intermittent blocks of Greece's main highway and border-access roads. Farmers are demanding higher subsidies for cotton and ot
Gen. Boyko Borissov, Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry, confirmed that Ivan Chobanov is the Cabinet's candidate for director of National Service Security.
Roseximbank, Biochim, State Saving Bank, Bulbank and Post Bank are among the six financial institutions winners of the tender for servicing the Customs, Capital Weekly reported, citing insiders. The results will be announced officially after Finance Minis
The town of Silistra marked the 124th anniversary of its liberation from the Ottaman rule. During the celebrations church mass was served and a special exhibition of photographs and documents of all the town’s mayors since the liberation was opened.
A rally against the closure of the Bulgarian National Bank regional branch in the Black Sea city of Burgas has been scheduled for February 11. According to the organizers the decision of BNB Managing Board for closing the branch will reflect extremely neg
What is important for us are not the concrete dates of Bulgaria’s entry into NATO, but the speeding up of the efforts in this direction, Foreign Minister Passy said for CNN, broadcast live from the studio in London. Minister Passy pointed out that the Bul
United Democratic Forces (UDF) would win, if general elections were held now, the latest poll at novinite .com shows.
"Bulgaria enjoys good chances of joining NATO, " Alan Williams, chairman of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA) and president of the Atlantic Council of Great Britain, said. According to him there are no arguments against the entry and it is going to be
President George W. Bush and Pope John Paul II led a phalanx of tributes by world leaders to the late Princess Margaret.
Nearly two weeks after President Bush lumped Iran into an "axis of evil," the Middle Eastern country's reformist president Saturday urged Iranians to turn out in force for an upcoming anti-U.S.
British Easy Group in interested in National Carrier Balkan Airlines, Finance Minister Milen Velchev announced. At the World Economic Forum held in New York, Mr Velchev had talks with the president of the group Stelious Hadzhioanou.
Bulgaria's lev closed at 1.9471/1.
Bulgaria failed to make any of its scheduled performances in the first day of the 19th Winter Olympic Games. Georgi Zhekov was to be the first Bulgarian participant in Salt Lake City, but K 90 qualifications were cancelled and rescheduled for February 10,
Following the reports in Brussels newspapers about the arrest of Bulgarians on arms traffic and money-laundering charges, the Foreign Ministry made an official statement demanding from Brussels more information on the case. The Consular Department of the
At least seven states must receive invitations for NATO entry at the Prague summit in November, Foreign Minister Passy said in his lecture "NATO's enlargement role in anti-terror war - global and regional dimensions", which he delivered at the annual conf
Thousands of demonstrators marched on the presidential palace late Friday, hours after President Eduardo Duhalde unveiled a sweeping plan to scale back political spending in his cash-strapped country. Earlier Friday evening, Duhalde announced moves to red
Purchases in Bulgarian households marked a 4% rise in 2001 over the previous year, inflation for 2001 deducted, data of GfK agency Bulgaria show. Mineral water proved to be Bulgarians’ favorite when doing shopping, with a 18% growth in bought quantities,
The reform in the army was discussed by Defense Minister Svinarov, Chief of General Staff General Miho Mihov and commanders in Sliev garrison, marking the beginning of a series of meetings with commanding officers, who are the people who carry out the ref
A state of emergency has been declared in Liberia amid fears that an armed rebellion is close to the capital city. The government said its forces had driven rebels from Kley junction, just 22 miles from the capital, the to Monrovia they have come to the c
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