| Top News 18:15 Wed 15 Oct 2008 Ahead of his third and final televised debate encounter with Barack Obama, John McCain was quoted as saying: "We've got them just where we want them". It seemed a strange thing to be saying after, in a few short days, a succession of five separate opinion polls gave Obama a read more ![]() | ![]() | Top News 10:30 Wed 15 Oct 2008 Life as an expatriate is not without its complications, and being a foreigner in Bulgaria is no exception. The issue of The Sofia Echo published on October 17 explores, in separate stories, how some private companies in Bulgaria are dealing with the question of signing read more ![]() |
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| 18:57 Wed 15 Oct 2008 Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci has promised that more Islamic states will recognise Kosovo. “This is an outcome of our diplomatic efforts and the support of our international partners,” Thaci told reporters on October 15, commenting on the announcement by the United Arab read more ![]() | ![]() | 17:19 Wed 15 Oct 2008 After reviewing a complaint filed by the Hungarian-based NGO Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC), the European Committee for Social Rights (ECSR) issued a statement saying that Bulgaria has discriminated against children with mental disabilities depriving them from an read more ![]() |
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| 15:52 Wed 15 Oct 2008 Greece has accused Macedonia of distorting the truth about an October 13 incident in which four Macedonian journalists were detained near a protest in northern Greece against military exercises in the read more ![]() | ![]() | 15:15 Wed 15 Oct 2008 On October 15, Sofia city hall said that it would hold a public procurement tender on October 23 to choose a company that would build a new bicycle lane in Sofia. The new lane, 6.1km long and linking Macedonia square to Knyazhevo district via Tsar Boris III Boulevard to read more ![]() |
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![]() ![]() Tatyana Doncheva, one of the highest-profile politicians of the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), compared her role in the row over the State Agency for National Security (SANS) to a joke. On October 3, she told Bulgarian National Television a joke about the rabbit being read more ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the year or so that he has been here, Jose Luis Ruiz Comino has picked up a few phrases in Bulgarian, and mixes them at whim with English and his native madrileno Spanish, much in the way he chops and mixes and blends ingredients in the kitchen.
A chef by profession, a cook read more ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In light of the October 11 world cup qualifier between Bulgaria and Italy bookmakers are pegging 13-5 for Bulgaria and Italy to draw, 9-1 for Bulgaria to win and 9-4 for Italy to win.
The odds are supported by the Bulgarian star player Dimitar Berbatov who on arriving at read more ![]() ![]() ![]() |































