A young woman was killed in downtown Sofia Tuesday afternoon after being run over by a heavy duty construction truck.
The terrible accident happened at the major intersection between the "Vitosha" and "Patriarch Evtimiy" boulevards while the truck was maneuvering in an attempt to enter or exit the construction site for subway excavations, which is adjacent to the intersection.
The traffic pattern in the busy area was altered recently over the construction works, making the section for cars very narrow while "Vitosha" has been closed for trams....
Read more...
|
The publication of the Bulgarian daily newspaper "Klassa" (i.e. "Class") will be terminate in a month because of economic difficulties.
...
Read more...
|
Switzerland will grant to Bulgaria assistance in the amount of BGN 106.5 M for projects in four sectors whose realization is to begin in December, 2010.
The news was announced Tuesday by the Bulgarian cabinet's press center....
Read more...
|
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Bulgaria by the end of the year, outgoing Turkish Ambassador Mehmet Gucuk announced Tuesday.
Ambassador Gucuk delivered a lecture in the Sofia Sheraton Hotel dedicated to the completion of his term of office in Bulgaria.
He explained that Turkey's PM Erdogan had planned to visit Bulgaria in September but that the referendum on constitutional amendments scheduled for September 12, 2010, had made him postpone his plans.
...
Read more...
|
On 1 January 2009, 31.9 million foreign citizens lived in the 27 EU Member States, of which 11.9 million were citizens of another EU Member State, according to data released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union Tuesday.
...
Read more...
|
The New York Stock Exchange is shown, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. Stock futures slipped to start the holiday-shortened week after some fresh concerns about the health of European banks rattled overseas mar...
Read more...
|
Russia remains in exclusive talks with France over the purchase of French Mistral helicopter carriers despite the launch of an international tender last month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov s...
Read more...
|
A Turkish security department chief was appointed as chief of staff at UN peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast. Serafettin Bural was appointed to the mission which is comprised of police officers and s...
Read more...
|
Turkey's industry minister said on Tuesday that an 8-10 percent growth was expected in Turkish economy in the second quarter. Speaking at a program broadcast by private TV channel CNN Turk, Turkis...
Read more...
|
The administration of a leading Turkish bank has decided to contribute to the aid campaign launched by its employees in an effort to help the flood-stricken Pakistan.
Read more...
|
The third train of Turkish humanitarian aid organization set off for flood-hit Pakistan on Tuesday. Turkish Red Crescent's train which departed from Behicbey train station in the capital Ankara ca...
Read more...
|
Russia is ready to ratify a nuclear arms pact with U.S. this year but START could face problems in the U.S. Senate, the Russian speaker of parliament said.
Read more...
|
German Chancellor and head of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel prepares to cast her ballot in the second round of voting during the election of a new German president by the Federal ...
Read more...
|
A portrait of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is held by a protester at a protest by Iranian exiles against the possible stoning of Ashtiani in Iran on August 5, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup, Gett...
Read more...
|
Commuters looks through the window of a subway train in Paris, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. French unions launched a major strike Tuesday over unpopular conservative President
Read more...
|
Spanish police said on Tuesday they had arrested five suspected members of a gang that imported men from Brazil to offer sexual services and drugs across the country.Police said a week earlier they ha...
Read more...
|
Bulgaria's Interior has asked the FBI to meet with the two Bulgarian immigrants who made a joke by demanding racket from an Abu Dhabi company interested in investing in a Formula 1 racetrack near Sofia.
Bulgaria's Formula 1-gate emerged last week after the Economy Minister Traicho Traikov and the Chair of the Emirates Associated Business Group (EABG) Mohammed Abdul Jalil al Blouki signed in Sofia a letter of intent, under which the Abu Dhabi company declared interest in infrastructure projects in Bulgaria, including the possible construction of a Formula 1 circuit at Dobroslavtsi near Sofia.
The scandal erupted at first when the press center of the Economy Ministry reported incorrect information about the EABG Chair (styling him the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi) Mohammed Abdul Jalil al Blouki and the agreement itself.
...
Read more...
|
EU member-states have principally adopted “guidelines” forthe harmonization of positions with Serbia ahead of the upcoming debate in the UN General Assembly.
The Beta news agency has learned from EU officials in Brussels that the opinions of those countries which have and those which have not recognized Kosovo were harmonized.
Read more...
|
The Serbian Army (VS) Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Miloje Miletić said that the situation in Novi Pazar should not be underestimated or exaggerated.
“Individual incidents cannot endanger the stability of the state, it is only a warning that the problem needs to be solved in a way that we want to solve it in,” Miletić said.
Read more...
|
ROME No global food crisis appears to be looming despite a Russian wheat shortfall that has helped lift prices to their highest level in two years, but volatile food commodities markets need b...
Read more...
|
