News archive of September 2015

Bulgarian police detained on Tuesday a 26-year-old British MMA fighter for stealing a forklift, crashing into two vehicles and attacking police officers in the Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach.

The British citizen stole the forklift from a warehouse and crashed into two vehicles.

Luckily no people were injured in the collisions.

The government of Japan adopted a decision to donate USD 2 million worth of aid to Serbia and Macedonia for tackling problems caused by the migrant crisis.

This was announced by Japanese Ambassador in Belgrade Juichi Takahara.

The G7 group of leading economies, European countries and Gulf states pledged $1.8 billion in funding on Sept.29 for UN aid agencies struggling with the worst refugee crisis in 70 years.

Bulgaria has retained the 54th position it has had since last year in the World Economic Forum's competitiveness ranking, a WEF report reads.

WEF data shows Bulgaria's economy is currently outperforming six other EU member states which include Slovenia, Hungary, Cyprus, Croatia, and Greece.

Neighboring Romania, another EU member, comes a spot up (53rd).

Former US intelligence contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden joined Twitter Sept. 29, picking up more than a quarter of a million followers on the social network in just over two hours.

Sixteen Turkish workers abducted four weeks ago by armed militants in Iraq have been released and are with embassy officials, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said on his Twitter account on Sept. 30. 

Marko Djuric say he does not believe "in the truthfulness" of Hashim Thaci's statement about NATO's agreement for Pristina to form an army in Kosovo.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras talked to The Wall Street Journal about the future goal of Greece which is to return to bond markets soon.

Shyhrete Berisha is continuing her long legal battle to win back the family home that her late husband's relatives took from her after her family were slaughtered.

The Working Group on Security of the Trilateral Contact Group, which involves representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE, reached an agreement on Tuesday on the withdrawal of tanks and other weapons from the frontline in eastern Ukraine.

The latest agreement supplements the Minsk ceasefire accords, which were signed in February.