Cold War conflicts

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrives on official visit to Bulgaria on Friday accompanied by 80 businessmen.

In line with this visit, the Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency and the Embassy of Vietnam to Bulgaria are jointly organising a Bulgarian-Vietnamese business forum.

Two mortar rounds fired from Syria struck open areas of the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights on April 28, an Israeli security source said.