Seven of the foreign hostages abducted in Yemen Friday, including at least one child, have been found dead, BBC reports citing local officials. Nine foreigners, three of them children, were kidnapped while on a picnic on Friday in the in the northern Sa'dah region. The group included a German doctor, his wife and three children, and also a male British engineer and a female South Korean teacher....

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The Prosecutor's Office dismissed Monday the trial against former Interior Ministry Chief Secretary, Ilia Iliev, over lack of evidence. Iliev was investigated for disclosing classified information and in 2008 spent 72 hours behind bars. After a number of expert testimonies and interrogations, it became clear the Prosecutor could not prove that Iliev had ever disseminated classified information in order to protect himself from other high-ranking cops. ...

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The opposition GERB party is the sole political formation to deposit the BGN 5 000 required by Sofia's City Hall to obtain permission to post campaign materials. The amount was determined by an order of Sofia's Mayor and informal leader of Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party, Boyko Borisov. The deadline expired at 4 pm Monday. ...

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Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) officially presented Monday the final version of the July 5 election ballots. Bulgarian voters will cast 2 different ballots - one for majority candidates and one for proportional party tickets. The majority ballot must contain only one checked name while those with 2 or more check marks will be considered invalid....

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The employment rates of both the Euro Zone and the EU are down by 0,8% the during first 2009 quarter. The data was released by Monday by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. In the fourth quarter of 2008, employment declined by 0,4% in the Euro Zone and by 0,3% in the EU....

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The Political Council of the opposition "Order, Law and Justice" (RZS) party had signed a contract with a team of bodyguards from Bulgaria and Israel. The team will provide 24/24 protection of the RZS leader, Yane Yanev. The RZS leadership stated Monday that they had to resort to private security due to the silent refusal of State structures to provide protection for Yanev, despite warnings and recommendations coming from the Prosecutors Office. ...

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The CEC decision to register the VMRO-BND and the Coalition including several of the fractioned agrarian unions was annulled Monday. The news was announced by the Central Electoral Commission spokespeople, Ralitsa Negentsova and Alexander Alexandrov. CEC rejected the initial registration after a checkup revealed that the above political formations failed to collect the required signatures, thus reducing the number of parties and coalitions to participate in the July 5 parliamentary elections to 14 and 4 respectively. ...

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Fani Belneyska, mother of the murdered Belneyski sisters is filing an official complaint with the Bulgarian TV channel bTV over their reality show "Psychics." The second season of the show, in which 10 individuals with alleged psychic abilities compete to unriddle unsolved mysteries, included an episode dedicated to unraveling the girls' murder and footage of the investigation. ...

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The airport in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna has marked a 7.8% decrease in the number of passengers it processed from the beginning of the year on an annual base. The passengers served at Varna airport until June 7 totalled 232 758, the airport director Dimitar Kostadinov annoucned. ...

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The leader of Bulgaria's far-right, nationalist Ataka party, Volen Siderov, graduated from college Monday. Siderov took his State exam in Theology at the Shumen University. He arrived by car at 8:30 am, 30 minutes before the official start and sat at the far end bank in hall V-3 while his four bodyguards waited outside. ...

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As the dust settles on the European Parliament elections, EU officials and experts do not seem to be overly concerned by the low turnout, instead stressing the lessons learned from positive experiences like allowing people to vote in railway stations and shopping centers, and over the Internet, the EurActiv commented. According to the article the overall turnout of roughly 43% of the 375 million eligible voters represents an historical low and reiterates the growing apathy and lack of interest in EU affairs among Europe's citizens. Yet, the fall from the 45....

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An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.6 on the Richter scale struck about 160 kilometers southwest of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, outside the territory of the country. The tremor was felt in the town of Petrich shortly before 1 pm. ...

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The total average income per person in a household for the month of April 2009 is BGN 306, over 8% up compared to April 2008. The data was released Monday by the National Statistics Institute (NSI). The majority of the above income comes from salaries and retirement pensions - 80%. ...

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Bulgaria's alleged crime boss, Angel Hristov, is going to lead the majority ticket of the Party for Liberal Alternative and Peace PLAM (FLAME) in the city of Pernik. The news was reported by the Bulgarian information agency BTA. In addition to Hristov, PLAM has listed three candidates on their proportional ballot in Pernik. ...

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80 schools will be closed all over Bulgaria over decisions made by local municipal councils. The information was revealed Monday by the Chair of the Bulgarian Teacher's Trade Union, Yanka Takeva. About 1 500 teachers are expected to lose their jobs while in other schools entire classes will be cut. ...

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Former mayor of a western Bulgarian town has been found dead in the well of his house in an apparent suicide. The body of Zlatko Stoychev, former mayor of the town of Radomir, was found Sunday evening by his nephews. Police says there are no traces of violence on his body and assumes that Stoychev has drowned himself. ...

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A total of 10,000 people are expected to gather on Tuesday in a peaceful protest in front of the building of Bulgaria's government to express their discontent with life in the European Union's poorest and most corrupt nation. The rally is organized by the KNSB trade union and will gather together representatives from more than thirty sectors, including teachers, miners, agriculture, health and energy workers, as public anger is mounting against the government ahead of the general elections at the beginning of July. At the beginning of the year an anti-government rally in the capital Sofia turned into a riot as hundreds of protesters clashed with police, smashed windows and damaged cars. ...

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Bulgaria is one of seven countries in Eastern and Central Europe, where the world's largest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI.BR) is considering divesting its operations, Belgian newspaper Le Soir reported on Saturday. The paper said 11 breweries producing a total of 15 million hectoliters of beer a year in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro, were part of a "packaged" deal to be sold as a whole. ...

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By Baltimore Sun Question: What destinations are you seeing as the emerging "new Prague" as we come into a new economic climate for travel? Any new cities in Eastern Europe, or perhaps Southeast Asia that are on your radar as the "next place to be"? Answer: Prague, as beautiful and interesting a city as it is, has become crowded and expensive compared to other Central and Eastern European cities....

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Half a month ahead of the general elections in Bulgaria, the ruling Socialists are making more and more attractive promises in a bid to attract voters and stay in office. "An increase in Bulgarians' average salaries up to BGN 1000 is an achievable goal," Rumen Ovacharov, leader of the Socialists' unit in the capital Sofia and MP, told the morning broadcast of the private bTV channel on Monday. "You may be surprised to find out that salaries in Bulgaria continue to increase even now and that does not mean that the country will see a rise in inflation rates," he added. ...

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Scottish health officials have insisted the risk swine flu poses to the public remains low after the virus claimed its first UK victim and its first in Europe. The Scottish Government confirmed on Sunday a patient with underlying health problems had died after testing positive for the H1N1 virus, the BBC reported. The victim is understood to be a 38-year-old woman who gave birth prematurely at a hospital in Paisley....

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Iran's government has banned a rally by supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, amid growing unrest over last week's presidential poll. The interior ministry said the planned march against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been planned by "sedition elements", the BBC reported. Mousavi, a moderate, called for the results to be annulled, alleging fraud....

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Bulgarian scientists have allegedly discovered one of the genes that causes cells to die, which may be able to eventually help slow down the aging process. The scientists reached these important conclusions while searching for the genes, responsible for several hereditary diseases. Neurology professor, Ivaylo Turnev, said that the examination of a Bulgarian family with hereditary glaucoma found a second gene with a significant role in the disease....

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A Bulgarian truck driver has been arrested on the Iran-Turkey border after attempting to smuggle EUR 23 M of liquid drugs into Turkey. The Bulgarian daily newspaper Standart reported that two police dogs helped custom officers to catch the unnamed Bulgarian. The smuggler was caught at Gurbulak border point situated at the easternmost point of Turkey, that is equipped with an X-Ray system. ...

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The trial against Bulgarian truck driver Zhivko Rusev, who is accused of drugs smuggling, is set to start in Iran. The Bulgarian Embassy in Tehran has hired local lawyer Moghaddam Far to defend Roussev. Dragovest Goranov, spokesperson for the Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Ministry stated; "This lawyer was recommended to Bulgaria by employees of the Turkish Embassy in Iran....

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From The Times (UK) By Mark Tighe and Colin Coyle Enterprise minister Mary Coughlan has ordered a crackdown on the 5 000 Romanians and Bulgarians suspected of working illegally in Ireland. ...

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Palestinians have rejected the Israeli prime minister's conditions for a two-state solution, saying he has "paralysed" the peace process. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, in a major policy speech, accepted the creation of a Palestinian state but only if it was demilitarised, the BBC reported. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's spokesman said his comments challenged Palestinian, Arab and US positions. ...

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The Austrian energy company EVN is going to invest EUR 95 M in the construction of a wind power park near the northeast Bulgarian town of Kavarna. The project includes 25 turbines of 2 MW each, and is expected to produce about 140 GW/h of electricity per year. The news has been announced by Kalina Trifonova, a CEO of EVN Naturkraft, which a subsidiary of EVN developing its renewable energy projects....

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Supporters of Mir Hossein Moussavi, the main political rival of re-elected Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have formed a growing rally in Tehran Tuesday night. This has happened while the supporters of Ahmadinejad have also rallied at an official demonstration to celebrate the reelection of the incumbent, the English-language Iranian Press TV has reported. Earlier Mir Hossein Moussavi urged his own supporters to cancel their plans to rally following mass protests a day earlier in which seven people were reportedly killed. ...

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The Ukraine needs to get a loan of USD 4 B (EUR 2,9 B) from European banks in order to pay for its supplies of Russian natural gas. This was declared by the Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, after her meeting with representatives of the EU in Luxembourg on Tuesday, BGNES reported. Tymoshenko said Ukraine's difficulties with paying for Russian natural gas could be overcome with a European loan because the country's banking system could not react quickly enough to the need to come up with such a large sum. ...

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A 34-year-old man has been found shot dead in his apartment in Sofia Tuesday afternoon, around 5:30 pm. The body was discovered in an apartment on the "Dimitar Petkov" boulevard by the police, who established the victim has died at least three days ago. The man has been identified as Dragan Atanasov....

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The leaders of the so called BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India, and China - agreed Tuesday to start working out the parameters of a new global financial "architecture". The news has been announced by the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, as quoted by ITAR-TASS, after the end of the first BRIC summit in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains. Medvedev declared that the leaders the four states had agreed to have the Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors of their countries start discussing a new global financial "architecture". ...

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Bulgaria's natural gas prices might go down by 33,14% starting July 1, 2009, according to a report of the State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR). This price reduction was proposed to the Commission by the Bulgarian state-owned gas monopoly Bulgargaz at the beginning of June. If it is implemented, this will be the greatest ever reduction of natural gas prices in Bulgaria compared to a previous quarter. ...

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The Pazardzhik District Court granted Tuesday full parental rights to the parents of the murdered Belneyski sisters over their foster child, 5-year-old Maria. The session was held behind closed doors. In the beginning of the year, Fani and Stoimen Belneyski applied to adopt Maria, who before becoming their foster child, lived in an a Pazardzhik orphanage....

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The European Regional Policy Commissioner, Danuta Hubner, has canceled her June 18-19 trip to Bulgaria, her office reports Tuesday. The spokesperson did not offer any concrete reasons, except "unexpected obligations in Brussels" Hubner is most likely to visit Bulgaria after the parliamentary elections with a tentative trip day of July 8. ...

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The District Court in the city of Plovdiv decided Tuesday to postpone for October the so-called "Krichim palace" ownership case. Bulgaria's former Tsar, Simeon Saxe-Coburg, and his sister Maria Luisa seek to regain ownership on the former Krichim royal residence, and were hoping to hear the decision of the Court on the issue within a month. The Court was expected to give a clear indication of how they would rule as early as Tuesday, which happens to be Simeon's 72nd birthday. ...

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190 properties and about 20 items are offered for sale on Bulgaria's Chamber of Private Enforcement Agents site, which was launched a couple of days ago. The electronic registry allows interested buyers to check the type of property, its price and location. The Camber predicts that the foreclosure page will become the most visited property site in the country. ...

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The notorious Galevi brothers will be released from the Sofia jail on a bail of BGN 50 000 each, the Kyustendil Regional Court decided Tuesday. The rule of the Court in the western city changes the permanent detention measure imposed on Plamen Galev and Angel Hristov. The case was tried by the Chair of the Kyustendil Court, Krasimir Bambov....

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One of the abductors of a businessman's son in the northeastern city of Dobritch, Doncho Slavov, has been shot dead Tuesday morning. The phone call to the police has been made by the 34-year-old man's wife, who found him with a head wound at 8:40 am in their apartment in Dobritch. Slavov has been pronounced dead at he scene and his body was sent to the coroner for autopsy while the police are searching the crime scene. ...

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The opposition Blue Coalition insists that CEC reconsiders its decision about the opening of polling sections in countries where Bulgaria has diplomatic representation. The "Blues" demand that the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) gives an opportunity to Bulgarian Consuls to open such polls even if the required 100 applications to vote from Bulgarians living abroad have not been collected. The Blue Coalition National Headquarters issued a declaration Tuesday reminding that CEC had revoked a text from the Election of Members of the Parliament Act, where it is stated that Consuls can use their own judgment and open voting sections without the required signatures. ...

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The Prosecutor's Office sent Tuesday a request to the Court to renew the trial against former "Kremikovtzi" CEO and CSKA Football Club President, Alexander Tomov. The Sofia City Prosecutor, Nikolay Kokinov, based the request on the fact that he received notice from Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) that Tomov is not registered to run for a Parliament seat in the July 5 elections. On May 27, the Sofia City Court postponed proceedings against Tomov because he was officially registered by CEC to run at the EP elections....

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Police in northern Greece announced that they had broken up an "extremely well organized" gang of Bulgarian fraudsters who are believed to have swindled thousands of euros from unsuspecting bank customers, Kathimerini newspaper reported. The Bulgarians copied bank card details using devices installed at bank ATMs. Officers arrested four of the suspects in the northern region of Halkidiki on Sunday and the fifth suspect was subsequently apprehended in Blagoevgrad in southwestern Bulgaria. ...

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The global economy is not over the worst of the recession, Erik Berglof, chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, said. "I don't think the worst is behind us ... We've not seen everything yet," said Berglof, who works for the London-based EBRD -- set up to help ex-communist nations adopt market economies after the Soviet Union collapsed. ...

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Thousands of protesters from different sectors rallied on Tuesday in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in front of the government headquarters in a spirited but small-scale display compared to initial plans. The rally was organized by the KNSB trade union and gathered together representatives from more than thirty sectors, including teachers, miners, agriculture, health and energy workers, who expressed their discontent with life in the European Union's poorest and most corrupt nation. The protesters demanded revocation of the law that bans rallies and protests in front of the headquarters of state institutions and called for a rise in state employees salaries, more money for the health care and education sectors and higher compensations when workers lose their jobs. ...

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The case against Bulgaria's two notorious businessmen known as the Galevi brothers is tried Tuesday at the Regional Court in the western city of Kyustendil. The information was announced by the Kyustendil Court's Chair, who further reported that the files connected to the case have arrived Monday from the Sofia City Court. The Court has also received requests for release from jail deposited by attorney, Menko Menkov. ...

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An 18-year-old Florida man suspected in the mutilation of numerous cats over the last month appeared in court in Miami on Monday to face charges of animal cruelty, the Washington Post reported. Tyler Weinman made only one comment via video link from the Miami-Dade County Pretrial Detention Center, greeting County Judge Mindy S. Glazer at the outset of his hearing....

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Bulgaria's ex-king Simeon Saxe-Coburg and his sister, who seek to regain ownership on the Krichim former royal residence, are likely to hear the decision of the court on the issue within a month. Whether this is a realistic expectation will become clear later on Tuesday, June 16, when for former king and current leader of the centrist National Movement for Stability and Prosperity celebrates his 72nd birthday. The District Court in Plovdiv will convene on Tuesday to hear three expertises dealing with the renovations of the buildings on the territory of the residence, which may prove vital for the outcome of the case. ...

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Bulgaria is ranked number twenty-one, while India has regained its top position in an annual rating of thirty countries' retail sector potential. Bulgaria has lost five spots in comparison with last year's AT Kearney 2009 Global Retail Development Index, a study of retail investment attractiveness among 30 emerging markets, but still ranks ahead of Romania and Croatia. The French international chain Carrefour stepped in March this year on the Bulgarian market, which is expecting the entrance of the so-called discount supermarket chains, such as Lidl, Penny Market and Plus....

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Seven people were killed during Monday's protests in Tehran over the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian state radio reported. The reports said the deaths came after "thugs" attacked a military post. The country's powerful Guardian Council has described the results of the disputed poll as "provisional". ...

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Argentine health officials said Monday that a 3-month-old baby had died of the swine flu, the first fatal victim of the virus in Argentina. The number of cases of the flu, known as the H1N1 virus, has been climbing in Argentina and Chile in recent days as winter approaches in the Southern Hemisphere. Argentine officials said they did not know exactly how the baby was infected with the virus, which contains genetic material from bird, swine and human flu viruses. ...

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Amid rampant allegations of vote buying during the recent European vote, controversial Bulgarian energy mogul Hristo Kovachki has promised big surprises in the general elections on July 5. "We will most probably prove to be the big surprise in the next elections," Hristo Kovachki said at the Danube town of Russe, where the runners for his Lider party, tied in coalition with Novoto vreme movement, were presented. In his words Lider party has a total of 50,000 members and their number is expected to double by the end of the election campaign. ...

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By Daniel MclaughlinThe Irish Times Bulgaria's deputy interior minister has resigned after being linked with a bribery scandal. The resignation comes as the Balkan state's fight against corruption dominates the run-up to next month's general election. ...

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A total of 10,000 people are expected to gather on Tuesday in a peaceful protest in front of the building of Bulgaria's government to express their discontent with life in the European Union's poorest and most corrupt nation. The rally is organized by the KNSB trade union and will gather together representatives from more than thirty sectors, including teachers, miners, agriculture, health and energy workers, as public anger is mounting against the government ahead of the general elections at the beginning of July. The protest will bring traffic in downtown Sofia to a halt. ...

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