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Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu visited on Thursday the Budapest headquarters of the Danube Commission, expressing on the occasion his belief that in the coming years, the Commission member states will succeed in modernizing this organization so that it be able to make a more substantive contribution to the development of transport in Europe, informs a release of the Ministry of Fore

Betina Zhoteva, the spokeswoman for Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry, will be appointed to the Council for Electronic Media (CEM), the Presidency of Bulgaria has said.

Zhoteva was nominated by Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev, who appoints several members of the media regulator alongside Parliament.

Some 123 U.S. soldiers arrived in Turkey as part of a program to train and equip the putatively moderate Syrian opposition, along with weapons that are being transferred to ?ncirlik Airbase in the southern province of Adana.

Some 123 U.S. soldiers arrived in Turkey for training of moderate Syrian opposition, along with weapons that are being transferred to ?ncirlik Airbase for equipping part of the program.

No Bulgarian citizens, who are currently in Nepal, expressed interest to evacuate from the earthquake-stricken country with the airplane, which has been provided for the purpose by the Foreign Ministry.

This was announced by the ministry's spokesperson Betina Zhoteva in an interview for private NOVA TV on Wednesday.

The Foreign Ministry has no official information on Bulgarian citizens, who were aboard the cargo ship, which was seized in Iran on Tuesday.

This was announced by the spokesperson of the ministry Betina Zhoteva in an interview for private NOVA TV on Wednesday.

Euclid Tsakalotos, the Oxford-educated economist was born in the Netherlands in 1960, and is soft-spoken and amiable and speaks Greek tinged with a faint British accent. Simple and professional, the new face of the Greek economy will be less about fashion style and more about method, organization and detail.

Bulgarian authorities have established contact with all Bulgarian nationals whose stay in Nepal has been registered, according to Petko Todorov, Bulgaria's Ambassador to India.

Todorov told the Bulgarian National Television that there was no information about injured Bulgarians in Saturday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal.

Turkey reacts to the US, Russia, Germany and France over the wording their leaders picked on the Armenian killings Turkey has reacted to the U.S., Russia, Germany and France over the wording their leaders picked in remarks on the killing of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. 

Eight people who have been implicated in the activities of a non-government organization called the International Mine Initiative (IMI), including Alex Rondos, a former adviser to one-term socialist prime minister George Papandreou, were on Friday indicted to trial on charges of misuse of millions euros of public funds.