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Just a week after U.S. troops in Iraq killed Italian agent Nicola Calipari and wounded freed hostage Giuliana Sgrena, a similar incident emerged involving another U.S. ally: Bulgaria. On the evening that the Italians were shot, U.S. troops near the Iraqi city of Diwaniya killed a Bulgarian soldier, Gurdi Gurdev, whose patrol had stopped 150 m short of a U.S. checkpoint without realizing it was there. The Bulgarians, according to a letter posted on the Web by a "combat buddy" of the deceased, fired warning shots at a civilian Iraqi vehicle that was approaching them. "The Americans didn't know...
Righting the Roma BULGARIA Leaders of eight Central and East European countries met in Sofia to launch the Decade of Roma Inclusion, the first major joint initiative to end the plight of the region's largest and most disadvantaged ethnic minority. Sponsored by George Soros' Open Society Institute, the World Bank and the European Union, the program focuses on health, education, housing and employment. A major new survey of the region's Roma by the United Nations Development Program will serve as a benchmark. Soros told TIME that he is "very optimistic" about the initiative's potential impact. "It will...
...past midnight on Jan. 10, minutes after the introduction of a nationwide ban on lighting up in public places. The ban prevents Italy's estimated 14 million smokers from puffing in cafés, restaurants and offices unless there is a separate smoking room. Bar and restaurant owners in Bulgaria - where nearly 40% of the population smokes - struggled to comply with a similar ban that came into force on Jan. 1, requiring certain tables to be reserved for nonsmokers. Last-Ditch Effort UKRAINE Viktor Yanukovych, the runner-up in the Dec. 26 re-run of the presidential election, filed...
...countries,” says Snezhana B. Zlatinova ’07, who is from Bulgaria but whose family lives in Beijing, “you’re not expected to speak up; you’re expected to be more modest...
...higher education, increased their role in the workforce and started having babies later, that figure has fallen to 1.5 last year. In the newer member states of Central and Eastern Europe, the drop-off has been even deeper. That means that the population of the E.U. - plus candidate countries Bulgaria and Romania, expected to join by 2007 - could drop from 482 million today to 454 million by 2050. In the same period, the E.U.'s working age population is projected to drop by 18% while the number of those aged 65 or more will soar by 60%. Hospital maternity wards...