Bulgaria requests medics' return
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Bulgaria asks for six medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV to be returned.
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Politics: 9 December 2004, Thursday. The families of the Libyan children infected with HIV demand that Bulgaria pays EUR 10 M to each of them, the head of the association of these families announced Thursday.
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Romania demanded the return to the country of a US Marine for questioning in the investigation of a suspected drunk driving accident that cost the life of a prominent Romanian rock musician.
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The European Union asked Russia to explain the bloody end to the siege of a school by Chechen gunmen on Friday with huge loss of life.
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Politics: 7 January 2005, Friday. A 27-year old Bulgaria has been seriously wounded in a shootout in the capital city of the Czech Republic, Prague.
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Leading doctors ask for an independent inquiry into the quality of care of severely injured patients.
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Bulgaria pressed Wednesday for the repatriation of five of its nurses and a Palestinian doctor jailed in Libya after their death sentences on charges of infecting children with HIV were commuted to life in prison.
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Business: 10 October 2004, Sunday. Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg expressed his discontent with the condition of Bulgarian Kalotina checkpoint on the Serbian border.
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Politics: 4 October 2004, Monday. Bulgaria's recalled ambassador returns from Germany Monday, after a drink-and-drive scandal.
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Bulgaria in Brief: 14 November 2004, Sunday. Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov signed a Book of Condolence which was opened in the Palestinian Embassy in Sofia after the death of Palestinian leader Yasser ...
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Israel is urged to ensure Palestinians can access life-saving medical treatment after it withdraws from Gaza.
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Politics: 26 October 2004, Tuesday. Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov leaves Tuesday on official visits to Slovenia and Croatia, the second leg of his trips to countries in Southeastern Europe.
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Six foreign medics reprieved from a death sentence in Libya after an eight-year ordeal over the infection of hundreds of children with HIV-tainted blood were facing an anxious wait on Wednesday as the world called on Tripoli to send them home.
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Bulgaria donated $56.6 million in Soviet-era debt owned by Libya as its contribution to a deal that led to the release of six medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV.
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Top news: 28 September 2004, Tuesday. Envoys of Europe's big business recommended Tuesday for Bulgaria to speed up its reforms en route to European Union membership.
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Libya has said it will discuss reversing the death penalty for five Bulgarian nurses convicted of infecting children with HIV if Bulgaria offers compensation.
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Politics: 18 September 2004, Saturday. While discussing ideas for providing humanitarian help to crisis-vulnerable regions in the Caucasus through the OSCE, the first diplomats of Bulgaria and Russia talked the ...