An Iraqi, who had tried to take pictures of the Bulgarian Kilo base in Karbala, was caught at noon time Tuesday by Bulgarian troops and handed over to the local police for questioning, Defense Ministry reported.
Neither bomb, nor explosives were found in the suspicious package found under a car parked in the center of capital Sofia, police reported. The contents of the card box was old Christmas decorations.
Thousands of Shiite Muslims marched through Baghdad on Tuesday, clamouring for Saddam Hussein's execution in the latest show of strength by a community repressed for decades by the former dictator. "Saddam is a war criminal, not a POW ...
China has approved human trials of an experimental SARS vaccine, and 30 people have volunteered, China state media reported on Monday. Researchers cautioned that the government's approval of what it called the first phase of human trials doesn't mean the
Cyprus' President Tassos Papadopoulos and Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis have reaffirmed that their countries were ready for a resumption of UN talks aimed at reunifying the island before it joins the EU on May 1. Simitis stressed that Turkey's bid t
Police temporarily cordoned off the area at the crossing of Vitosha boulevard and Alabin Street following a bomb tip-off for a suspicious package under a parked car. The signal was received shortly after 5 p.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has had talks Monday and Tuesday with US Administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer, US civil military officials and eight members of the Iraqi Governing Council about the possibility to dispatch a new United Nations team to Baghdad
Bulgarian Constitution must undergo six "crucial" amendments, so that to comply with EU legislation, the acquis communaitaire, parliamentary ad hoc Committee on Constitutional Changes decided on its first 2004 session on Tuesday. The constitutional amend
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has held talks with Turkish leaders in Ankara on terrorism, trade and regional concerns, BBC informed. General Musharraf is expected to meet Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Ergodan and to address deputies in parlia
After a special operation carried out by Bulgarian authorities in cooperation with Scotland Yard and the UK Home Office, 124 people from the Bulgarian Interior Ministry were fired over corruption, Deputy Interior Minister Boyko Kotsev announced Tuesday.
Inflation may rise a little at the beginning of 2004 due to increase in excise duties, Ivan Iskrov, governor of the Bulgarian National Bank said at his meeting with members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria, where he delivered a lecture on t
Interpetroleum's CEO Stoil Slavov, who was killed Monday together with his bodyguards, while in the elevator, has been under police investigation since 1997, Interior Ministry officials announced. The investigation, code-titled "The Untouchable", has not
Members of Bulgaria's largest right-wing political formation Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) will gather on a two-day national conference starting February 21, the party's National Council decided on Tuesday. The forum is aimed at electing a party leade
Stephen Calleja Malta Independent Daily
Lack of control inside Bulgaria's largest steel maker Kremikovtzi has caused the January 10 blast that killed three people, a check conducted by the state General Labor Inspectorate (GLI) showed Tuesday.
Bulgaria is well prepared to meet the country's scheduled January 2007 EU accession date, the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee says in its recent report on Bulgaria's progress toward EU accession, as cited by EurActive.com.
Some 10.5% of Bulgaria's people aged 15 - 74 browse the Internet, a survey of the National Statistical Institute conducted in the summer of 2003, showed.
Interior Chief Secretary General Boyko Borissov called for urgent changes to the Procedure Code under which expert studies of counterfeit money will be carried out at a specialized center at the Bulgarian National Bank. Interior Chief Secretary General B
Minor shares in some 110 Bulgarian companies will be floated on the exchange in a public bid, Deputy Manager of the state Privatization Agency Stanisslav Ananiev, cited by local Dnevnik daily, said. The bid is most likely to take place in the beginning o
More than 50 people have been injured in an Indonesia fire that started after two explosions rocked the Java Island, local police said. The blasts took place at a chemical plant in the most densely populated island in Indonesia.
Police found two pistols and ammunitions at the site of the blast that shattered the office building in Sofia's Lozenets district on Monday, Nikolay Nikolov, spokesman of the Sofia Directorate of the Interior, announced on Tuesday. A revolver - Smith & W
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