News archive of March 2016

Bulgaria's energy regulator has endorsed a proposal of state-owned wholesale gas supplier Bulgargaz to cut natural gas price by 23.02% for the second quarter of 2016.

The latest cut takes to 48% the drop in gas price since the start of last year, the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (KEVR) said in a statement on Thursday. 

Gunshots reported at the Greyhound bus station in Richmond, Virginia, with at least six people wounded and two of them being in critical condition.

According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, two of the victims were State troopers and that a third was a female civilian.

The shooter was also shot by police and is arrested.

Seven buses carrying about 350 Syrian refugees, mainly families with young children, arrived shortly after 6pm at abandoned LM Village in Myrsini, Kyllini, which will be used as a refugee center.

Bulgaria's consolidated budget is expected to show a surplus of BGN 1.86 B as of end-March, equivalent to 2.1% of 2016 GDP forecast, the Finance Ministry has said, citing preliminary estimates.

This will compare with budget surplus of BGN 256 M as at end-March 2015 (0.3% of GDP), the Finance Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

The Greek city of Kalamata, Peloponesse, is among 13 European cities you never thought to visit – but really should – according to Telegraph.

Security staff of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan clashed with protesters in Washington ahead of his speech at a major American think tank.

Erdogan was in Washington on Thursday to attend a major nuclear security summit hosted by President Barack Obama, and was giving a speech at the Brookings Institution, as AFP reports.

Bulgaria consolidated budget has shown a surplus of BGN 915.2 M at the end of February, equivalent to 1.0% of the projected 2016 GDP.

This compared with budget deficit of BGN 105.5 M equivalent to 0.1% of GDP at the end of February 2015, the Finance Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that the implementation of EU-Turkey agreement on readmission of immigrants arriving in the Greek islands will start on April 4.

Addressing Brookings Institute in Washington, U.S.A., he explained that immigrants who arrive in Greece from Turkey will be sent back to Turkey according to the agreement signed between EU and Turkey,

Both Kim Kardashian and Emily Ratajkowski shared a sexy picture of the two brunette beauties being topless and standing side by side in a bathroom.

While Kim’s caption read, “When we’re like…we both have nothing to wear LOL @emrata,” Ratajkowski’s stance on the imagery is a little more serious and direct.

The German authorities, backed by Europol, have dismantled a German-based Iraqi criminal syndicate suspected of laundering money for international heroin traffickers.