The European Union has slapped an immediate ban on imports of Thai poultry meat and products after Thailand confirmed its first two human cases of deadly bird flu, the European Commission said on Friday. The ban applies to poultry slaughtered after Januar
Bulgaria's jobless rate in December 2003 stood at 13,52%, marking a 0,3% increase over the previous month, Social Deputy Minister Rumen Simeonov announced.
A meeting lasting approximately one hour was held on Thursday night between the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and Cuban leader Fidel Castro, following the speech of the Head of the Orthodox Church in Havana, Greek agency MPA informed. The Ecumenical
Bulgaria's National Security Service has received no specific information about any people in Bulgaria to be organizing terrorist attacks, the country's Interior Minister Georgi Petkanov said Friday.
Bulgaria's interests must be respected when dealing with Iraq's debt, Bulgarian Finance Minister Milen Velchev said on Thursday at the Davos international forum.
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It is total nonsense to suggest that Romania might miss the timetable for accession to the EU, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana told the Financial Times in London on Thursday. He refuted any fears that his country might not be ready to enter the E
No fees will be imposed on foreign embassies in Bulgaria for closing off streets by erecting temporarily barriers at their request, Sofia Municipality Council decided on Friday, turning down a proposal to this effect.
The Cabinet must take a common stance on the President's proposal, made on Thursday, to initiate a referendum about Bulgaria's EU membership, the EU Affairs Minister Meglena Kuneva stated at private bTV channel on Friday. She pointed out that the referen
Three people were killed and seven injured in Italy after a Bulgarian mini-bus collided with a German cargo truck Thursday night on Udine-Tarvisio highway, ANSA agency reported.
Varna's Sea Port has been closed due to bad weather conditions, local authorities announced. The airport flights stick to their schedule.
A wedding in the Indian temple town of Srirangam ended in a fire tragedy, when a major fire mishap broke out at the marriage hall, Indian media reported. At least 45 persons were charred to death, including the bridegroom, and another 50 injured.
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, who is leaving Friday on a two-day visit to Cairo, will lobby to the Arab League, with the assistance of Egypt, on the positive outcome of the Bulgarian medics case in Libya, Dnevnik Daily wrote on its Friday edi
Egypt and Libya lifted Thursday restrictions on travellers crossing their common desert border imposed two weeks ago during a diplomatic row, the border authorities said, cited by AFP. The official said Egyptian workers were now crossing with just their i
NASA has lost contact with Spirit, the spacecraft probing Mars, because of a serious breakdown, world media reported on Thursday. "We have a very serious anomaly on the vehicle," Pete Theisinger, project manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission said
Bulgaria bid farewell to literary classic Yordan Radichkov who passed away on January 21 at 74 after a long illness.
Bulgaria's Cabinet extended Thursday the list of countries over which Bulgaria applies restrictions or bans on sale and supply of weapons and armament, PARI Daily wrote. The amendments are made in conformity with UN Security Council's resolutions and the
Twelve candidates have declared interest in the privatisation for Bulgaria's tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac. All of them have bought so far tender documentation for the consultancy competition on the sale.
The World Bank Sofia Office announced on Thursday the start of its Small Grants Program 2004 in Bulgaria.
Leading economists voiced concern over the fall of the US dollar and its impact on growth in Europe as money issues come to the fore on the second day of the World Economic Forum. With the eurozone's nascent economic recovery depending mostly on the area'
The next landing on the Moon is planned for 2015, but the Earth's only natural satellite has been for long a delicious piece of venturing by many US companies. Denis Hope is a CEO of Lunar Embassy, who in the far 1980 submitted a declaration to the UN, t
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