News archive of October 2016

US sensors manufacturer Sensata Technologies is to launch five hundred new openings in its three facilities across Bulgaria, its regional manager has said.

Turkish champion Beşiktaş will go top of Group B if it follows up a 3-2 away win over Napoli with a home win over the Italian side at its new stadium, where they have won 13 of their past 14 league fixtures. 

The Istanbul Domestic Relations Court has dissolved the marriage of a couple, saying the union could not continue in part due to the husband's negligence that resulted in "economic violence." 

The very first marriage in a subway station in Turkey was solemnized on Oct. 30, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Alper Odabaşı and Yeşim Demiray married at the observation terrace of the Haliç Station on the Golden Horn, after permission was granted by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

The United States is publicly insulting Russia by accusing it of war crimes in Syria, even though the U.S. bombed civilian targets "in the former Yugoslavia."

Tanjug cited TASS on Monday to report Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying this, in reference to NATO's 1999 bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ), made up of Serbia and Montenegro.

Anarchists and members of anti-establishment groups clashed with riot police units on Alexandras Avenue, in downtown Athens, Monday morning, causing damages to parked cars in the surrounding area. The clashes reportedly started when the anarchists spotted a group of Golden Dawn members, an extreme right neo-Nazi party represented in the Greek parliament, passing by the area.

That classic American phenomenon, Halloween, is becoming more and more popular in Croatia with an array of events now dedicated to the spooky occasion.

Novinite is republishing another story by our reader Leon de Leeuw about his visit to the town of Chirpan in Central Bulgaria.

We have already reprinted his accounts on Tran Gorge, Svoge and the Iskar gorge and Lakatnik.

Mariano Rajoy has been sworn in for a second term as Spain’s prime minister after winning a confidence vote in parliament to end the country’s 10-month spell without a government.

Turkey's tourism revenue decreased by 32.7 percent to $8.3 billion in the third quarter of 2016 compared to the same period of last year, amid a dramatic plunge in the number of foreign tourists visiting the country, data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) showed on Oct. 31.

Tourists spent an average per visit of $686 in the mentioned period, according to data.