News archive of April 2018

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, has told the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais that his country will never recognise the independence of Catalonia from Spain, adding that Kosovo and Catalonia do not have anything in common and "establishing any analogy is senseless".

Two people were killed and one injured on Monday after a garbage collection truck plunged into a ravine on the Aegean island of Tinos on Monday.

Fire service workers pulled out the bodies of two municipal workers and rescued a third employee who was hospitalized.

On May 1, the BSP organizes a protest against corruption, misery and poverty.
 
In Sofia, at 11:00, BSP is expecting to gather thousands to express their desire for decent income, as well as "against the corruption that robs their labor " at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier (Al. Nevski Square) . This is reported by the party.
 

On the World Day for Safe Working Conditions Bulgarian employers and representatives of NGOs will plant trees today and will silently remember the memory of the victims of labor accidents. This will take place in the space behind the Earth and Man Museum in Sofia, BNR reported.

Live Science - More than 3,000 years ago in the Nile River Valley, a body was carefully prepared for ceremonial burial. It was wrapped in a shroud and placed in a tomb, surrounded by important objects that demonstrated its elevated status.

The mourners probably had long faces as they sent their loved one to an eternal rest.

In the latest hiccup in government efforts to push through a long-delayed investment at the site of the old Athens airport in Elliniko, south of the capital, a group of residents have launched a legal challenge against the project.

At least 11 outlawed group members were detained in an operation launched from Ankara, believed to be in preparation to organize "provocative rallies" before Labor Day on May 1, security sources said on April 29.

The musicology department of Istanbul University State Conservatory has kicked off a project aiming to record nightingale calls and transcribe them into musical notes. 

The European Union's three largest economies agree on the need to be "ready to react" to trade tariffs imposed by the United States, France's presidency has said.

The local website 013info.rs is reporting this.

According to eyewitnesses, the victim had just dropped off a child at the kindergarten when he came under fire as he was walking out of the building.

The attacker remains unknown at this time. The man, who was shot in the stomach, was conscious as he was being taken to the hospital, reports said unofficially.