French President Jacques Chirac and his ruling conservative party suffered a crushing defeat in regional midterm elections yesterday, with the opposition Socialists and their Green and Communist allies seizing control of the vast majority of regional coun
Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party won a sweeping victory in local elections on Sunday, with more than 40 percent support nationwide, results showed. Many political analysts said the stabilizing financial policies of the governing party had
Bulgaria's best figure skating couple Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski won the silver medal in the World Figure Skating Championship. "Unfortunately, we didn't win tonight, but we were third last year and we're second this year, so we're taking it step b
Traffic police stopped and fined some of the Madrid bombers travelling in a car packed with explosives days before the attacks, says a newspaper. Spain's El Pais reported that a number of those behind the attacks were thought to have been in the car when
An explosion ripped through the Uzbek capital Tashkent on Monday, killing at least two people, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The Uzbek Foreign Ministry blamed terrorists.
The Bulgarian expedition, which is set to complete a successful ascent of Everest without without oxygen sets, left late on Sunday. The ten Bulgarian alpinists will try to climb up the peak from its northern, and most dangerous side.
A total of 38% of the adults in Bulgaria use mobile phones, a survey carried out by Alpha Research polling agency shows. No students and minors were included in the survey but they would highly increase the percentage of the Bulgarians using mobiles, exp
A whirling storm battered the coast of southern Brazil, killing two people, injuring at least 39 others and destroying hundreds of homes. Meteorologists said winds exceeded 74 mph, making the storm the first hurricane on record in the South Atlantic.
Gunmen opened fire Sunday on a convoy carrying Iraq's minister of public works, killing a driver and a bodyguard and injuring two others. The minister, Nisreen Berwari, was unharmed.
By International Herald Tribune This article was contributed by Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha, prime minister of Bulgaria; Juhan Parts, prime minister of Estonia; Indulis Emsis, prime minister of Latvia; Algirdas Brazauskas, prime minister of Lithuania; Adria
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US has changed the entry ritual for the seven NATO aspirants, including Bulgaria. Now instead of handing over the accession protocols to US President George Bush the seven prime ministers will give them to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
More than BGN 5 M of unpaid or siphoned taxes has been lost for Bulgaria's budget over the last five years. The establishment of a state service for fiscal investigation will help for faster penal proceedings against the "big whales", the Chief Taxation
Bulgaria's pottery factory Vidima Ideal has increased its production facilities with nearly 15 percent. The US investor American Standard eyes to continue extending its local investments, as the Sevlievo-located factory is a big supplier of sanitary pott
Polls opened Sunday in second-round midterm regional elections in France seen as a test of President Jacques Chirac's conservative government. His economic reforms and the rising unemployment have rendered him a rather unpopular image.
The polling Sunday in Georgia was troubled by separate accidents in and outside the booths in the tumultuous region of Adzharia. The autonomy's renegade leader Abazhidze was accused of sabotaging the vote.
Few are the Balkans politicians that deserve their name to be remembered. But still politicians are burdened with enormous responsibility, according to Sofia concerting Goran Bregovic.
The Bulgarian Army is ready to carry out all engagements as a full-fledged NATO member. However, there is still much work to do after the country's official entry, Chief of the Army Staff General Nikola Kolev told Bulgarian news agency BTA on Sunday.
Only one Briton was killed in Sunday's assault near the northern Iraqi city of Mossul, UK's Foreign Ministry announced. In a gunfire opened by unknown insurgents two foreign nationals were killed on their way to a local power station.
Afghani President Hamid Karzai announced that the country's landmark elections would be held in September, three months later than originally scheduled. Afghanistan was due to hold democratic elections in June 2004 under the Bonn peace accords drawn up in
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