News archive of July 2017

The time for talk on North Korea is “over”, the United States said, spurning a UN response to Pyongyang’s latest ICBM launch in favour of bomber flights and missile defence system tests.

The popular Cartoon Network, a children's TV channel, organizes a child vlog contest, reported BGNES. 

For those who don't know what does this mean, vlog is  is a blog that contains video content. It's about person's life, thoughts, opinions, and interests. 

HSBC said profits were up in the first half of the year after a turbulent 2016 which saw huge writedowns and restructuring costs as it laid off thousands of staff.

The Asia-focused giant has been on a recovery drive over the past two years, streamlining its operations and exiting unprofitable businesses.

Turkey's foreign trade deficit has narrowed in June year-on-year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) said on July 31.

"In June 2017, the foreign trade deficit was 6.01 billion dollars with a 9.1 percent decrease compared to June 2016," TÜİK stated.

The Eurostat statistics agency said unemployment in Greece fell slightly to 21.7 percent in April compared to 22 percent in May.

With 1.041 million unemployed, Greece had the highest jobless rate in the European Union, according to Eurostat.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that 755 staff must leave US diplomatic missions, in retaliation for new US sanctions against Moscow.

The decision to cut staff was made on Friday, but Mr Putin has now confirmed the number who must go by 1 September.

It brings staff levels to 455, the same as Russia’s complement in Washington.

The House of Representatives approved a USD 68 billion increase in military spending for the 2018 fiscal year, USD 1.6 billion of which will be used to pay for President Donald Trump's border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, Reuters reports.

The weather will be sunny today with light, in the eastern regions to moderate, east-northeastern wind.

Maximum temperatures will vary between 30° and 35°, a little lower on the Black Sea coast.

This is the weather forecast of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH),quoted by  FOCUS News Agency.

"This is a normal emergency situation, with 161 elevators in the capital's metropolitan. Passengers do not have to influence the facilities because they are damaging them, "commented on the case of the failed elevator at Mladost 1 station eng. Roumen Stoyanov from Sofia Metropolitan, quoted by btv. 

A controversial Channel 4 documentary featuring intimate tapes of Princess Diana talking about her doomed marriage to Charles has been slammed as “lowest common denominator TV.”

The documentary Diana: In Her Own Words features the royal speaking candidly and informally about her upbringing, her courtship with the Prince of Wales, her troubled marriage and her public life.