Bulgarian Miroslav Kirchev won the gold medal in 500 m kayak single at the European canoe and kayak racing championship in Moscow, Russia.
In the age group up to 18, Kristian Dushev ranked fourth, for 500 m kayak single too. Over the weekend, Krichev might score another medal, this time for 1000 m single kayak, while Kirchev might top the 200 m single kayak.
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Bulgaria plans to dispatch a 700-strong combat unit to boost its troops in Afghanistan as of 2013 at the latest, the defense minister has announced.
"About 700 Bulgarian troops will be trained to join the military operations of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan," Minister Anyu Anguelov told reporters on Friday.
In his words the soldiers' training is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2012 at the latest, when they will be able to participate in operations of the international forces following an expected political decision to this effect.
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After an 11.2% contraction in 2009, the Bulgarian mining industry is expected to grow by 1.4% in 2010 to be worth BGN 1....
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Bulgaria had a trade deficit of BGN 10.1 B in 2009, according to final data released Friday by the National Statistical Institute.
Thus, the country's trade deficit in 2009 was twice smaller than it was in 2008 when it reached almost BGN 20 B....
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Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov backed leader of nationalist Ataka party Volen Siderov regarding the latter's comments that Bulgarian National Radio and TV should be purged of people related to the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF).
Wednesday Siderov voiced a public threat to media freedom in Bulgaria by calling the National Radio Horizont program and declaring live on air that "the National Radio will become an objective media when it gets purged of BSP and MRF cadres."
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Three employees of the US embassy in Paris were treated for poisoning Friday after handling a suspicious mail.
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The city of London woke up to a bit of chaos on the launch of the bipedaller - that mayor Boris Johnson calls the 'Rolls Royce of bicycles -- as the newest mode of public transport Friday morning, but as the day wore on people did manage to make short trips on it instead of taking the bus or the tube.
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Two employees of the U.S. Embassy in Paris were examined for suspected poisoning on Friday after opening a suspicious envelope, but preliminary results indicated it was not harmful, the embassy said i...
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The head of the council advising Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on rights unexpectedly resigned Friday, in a blow for the Kremlin chief who has made developing civil society a "priority" ...
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Three employees of the U.S. embassy in Paris were being treated for suspected poisoning on Friday after opening mail, but there was no immediate information on the seriousness of their condition, poli...
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Turkey's national air carrier Turkish Airlines, or THY, will start direct flights to Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles in United States. THY said in a statement on Friday that flights would start f...
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Syrian Trade and Economy Minister Lamia Asi invited Turkish businessmen to invest in his country. Asi, in his address to the Syria Investment Conference in Istanbul held Friday as part of the Turkey-S...
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AFC Ajax have signed striker Mounir El Hamdaoui from AZ Alkmaar for an undisclosed fee with coach Martin Jol insisting the 26-year-old is the ideal replacement for Marko Pantelić.
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MASLOVKA, Russia (Reuters) - Forest fires sweeping across parts of Russia on Friday killed at least 23 people and forced the evacuation of thousands in the hottest summer weather since records began 1...
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A total of 100,000 tourists from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Macedonia, who are traveling by car, remain stranded in northern Greece because of the lorry drivers strike, according to reports.
Tourist agents complain that the image of the country has been dealt a serious blow and nearly 10% of the bookings have been canceled over the last two days.
The report comes just a day after the Greek government used a rare emergency order to force lorry drivers back to work following a three-day strike.
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As Germany's wild boar population has skyrocketed in recent years, so too has the number of animals contaminated by radioactivity left over from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. Government payments com...
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"I express my deep grief over the tragic death of two select members of the army's air corps," Defence Minister Evangelos Venizelos said in a statement, promising an investigation "to the greatest pos...
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President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Friday that France would strip the French nationality from foreign-born criminals who use violence against police or public officials.
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The death toll from forest fires sweeping across Russia amid a record-breaking heatwave grew to 25 on Friday, with three firefighters among the dead, officials said.
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Two men who work for the US Embassy in Paris underwent medical tests after handling a suspicious letter on Friday, but the embassy said preliminary analysis suggested it was not harmful.
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