SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The president of the Bulgarian football club Litex, Angel Bonchev, whom kidnappers seized on May 22nd, was released on Friday (Jul...
PARIS, France -- Slovenian Foreign Minister Dmitrij Rupel said on Sunday (July 13th) that Croatia may open all EU negotiating chapters by autumn next...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) -- EUFOR troops searched the home of Liljana Zelen-Karadzic, wife of war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic, in...
SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski sent a letter to his Greek counterpart Costas Karamanlis on Monday (July 14th), asking him to rec...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) -- Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik accused BiH's state television, BHT, of bias Monday (Jul...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) -- Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik said on Tuesday (July 15th) that RS stopped the handover...
Montenegro beat Serbia to take the European title in water polo. Also in cultural news this week: Cyprus won three medals at the European Shotgun Championship, and the Ohrid Summer Festival opened in Macedonia.
ATHENS, Greece -- Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis on Tuesday (July 15th) accused Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of trying to undermine ta...
ATHENS, Greece -- A large wildfire forced the evacuation of two villages and threatened a munitions factory in central Greece on Tuesday (July 15th),...
TIRANA, Albania -- NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told the BBC on Tuesday (July 15th) that Albania will become a full member of NATO at...
A special police operation is taking place Thursday in Sofia`s suburbs of Boyana , Dragalevtsi and Simeonovo , as announced by the Interior Ministry press-center. According to the Ministry`s information the goal of the operation was to find suspici...
Customs inspectors at Kalotina border checkpoint caught a big stash of undeclared EUR in the amount of 800,000 Tuesday. On July 15th, around 7:30 pm a Mercedes automobile had arrived at Kalotina , driven by a German citizen traveling from
15 serious traffic accidents have occurred in Bulgaria over the last 24 hours claiming the lives of 3 people and sending 17 to the hospitals with injuries, according to the Interior Ministry`s press-center. 3 of the injured are in critical
Citizens, living in Sofia`s neighbourhood of Krasno Selo hissed and threw eggs at Mayor Boyko Borissov while he was turning the first sod of a new kindergarten on Thursday. The stormy reaction was triggered by rumours claiming that a business
200 golden coins have been unearthed during archeological excavations near the Euxinograd royal summer palace complex, Director of the Archeological Museum in the seaside city of Varna Valentin Pletnyov told Focus - Varna Radio. The find dates back t...
Frankfurt-based Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfU) has extended a EUR 10 million credit line to First Investment Bank (FIBank). The 5-year financing agreement is intended to fund small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) activities. The upper limit of th...
The Unicef representative for Bulgaria, Octavian Bivol, said on July 16 2008 that he hoped that a new home for the children from the Mogilino social care home would be built by the beginning of 2009. The plight of the
Bulgartabac Holding, the Bulgarian tobacco monopoly, sold 78 per cent in its Plovdiv cigarette factory on July 16 for 30.8 million leva on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange. The bulk of the share package fetched 36.57 leva per share on average,
