People in the Russian republic of Chechnya are voting in a presidential election that Moscow hopes will help bring peace to the troubled region. Security is currently extremely tight, with armed Russian police lining up to guard the polling stations.
Bulgaria can certainly close its European Union (EU) pre-accession negotiations in 2004 if everything goes as planned, Bulgaria's Euro-integration Minister Meglena Kuneva said Sunday. The country hopes to complete the talks in 2004 and eventually become
A Johnnie Walker neon sign - which is said to be the famous whiskey brand's biggest signboard ever - was installed in the center of Sofia on Sunday. The illuminated sign was installed at the top of a building just across the street from the building of t
General Brigo Asparuhov, whom Bulgaria's prime minister is about to appoint his assistant, is a war machine, ex-leader of Bulgaria's rightist Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) Ivan Kostov, told local bTV on October 5. Kostov claimed that intelligence vete
Wages in Bulgaria may increase by a total of 50 to 70 percent by the end of this Cabinet's mandate, Transport Minister Nikolay Vassilev, who previously had the post of economy minister, told privately-owned bTV channel on Sunday. The minimum wage already
Israel launched air strikes on two separate locations in the Gaza Strip in response to the Palestinian suicide attack in a restaurant in the northern port city of Haifa that killed 19 people, some of them children, and injured tens of others. The overnigh
A 30-year-old Bulgarian man was wounded five times by gun shooting in capital Sofia's Ivan Vazov district, police officials said. The man is known for being involved with car thefts.
No Bulgarian people have been injured in the suicide bomb attack that took place in the Israeli town of Haifa, officials said. The explosion occurred in a restaurant and has reportedly caused the death of 20 people, injuring up to 50 others.
A Bulgarian man broke into the home of two elderly women in the town of Silistra Saturday and stabbed them with a knife.
A new monument dedicated to Bulgaria-descended computer inventor John Atanasoff was inaugurated in Bulgaria on Saturday. The ceremony, attended by Atanasoff's son and other family members, took place in his father's birth place - the village of Boyadzhik
An exhibition of Bulgaria-made fabrics and clothes will take place October 10 - 12 at the Interexpo Center in Bulgarian capital Sofia.
None of the ten new countries that will join the European Union (EU) in 2004 will oppose Bulgaria's entry, scheduled for 2007, Slovakia's President Rudolf Schuster said Saturday at a meeting with Ognyan Gerdzhikov, Bulgarian Parliamentary speaker. Schust
More active trade and transportation in Bulgaria over the last two years are an indication of the economic progress that the Cabinet has achieved, the country's Economy Minister Lidiya Shuleva said on Saturday. Survey of the Alfa Research agency showed t
Results from the European Union peer review on Bulgaria's only nuclear power plant in the town of Kozloduy will be positive in general, Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister Plamen Panayotov told local Darik radio on October 4. Panayotov also revealed that th
More than 1000 Bulgarian youths attended the presentation of a special project that aims to introduce them to the European Union policies and standards. The implementation of the project, funded by Bulgaria's Sports Ministry, started September 23 and is e
The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Sofia opened a special exhibition, dedicated to the history and accomplishments of the Hague institutions. The exposition is also a compliment to Bulgaria for its role in establishing mechanisms to settle peacefully disput
FIFA President Joseph Sepp Blatter arrived in Bulgaria on Saturday to join celebrations of 80 years since the first football clubs were officially formed in the country. This is my second visit to Bulgaria but the first one since I took on my current pos
An explosion went off at a restaurant in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa on Saturday, reportedly killing 20 people and injuring up to 50 others. Three children are reported to be among the dead.
US troops opened fire Saturday on a rioting crowd of former Iraqi soldiers who had gathered near a military base in capital Baghdad to demand their redundancy payouts. They became angry and started throwing stones and shouting abuse at the US soldiers, wh
Policeman in Malaga, Spain have arrested four Bulgarian nationals suspected of a double murder committed in Madrid at the beginning of 2003, local press reported. The four arrestees are probably linked to the February 26 shooting, in which another two Bu
The reaction of some NATO member countries after Bulgaria's prime minister appointed Brigo Asparuhov his assistant is interference in the state's internal policies, Ahmed Dogan, leader of Bulgaria's ruling coalition junior partner Movement for Rights and
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