News archive of September 2017

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - El Salvador has launched its first commission to find people still missing from the nation's civil war (1979-1992) in another small step toward reconciling with its past after years of demands from citizens for such an agency.

The United States is warning Americans against visiting Cuba and ordering more than half of U.S. personnel to leave the island, senior officials said Friday, in a dramatic response to what they described as “specific attacks” on diplomats.

Campaigners in Albania were celebrating on Friday after the Appeal Court in the city of Durres ruled against the city's request to re-start work on the Veliera project, a 6-million-euro project to renovate and decorate an area of around 12,000 square metres close to the city's Venetian Tower.

Arkansas is on the verge of banning the use, during the growing season, of a Monsanto-backed weedkiller that has been blamed for damaging millions of acres of crops in neighboring farms this year.

Russia and Turkey on Friday signed an agreement which has Ankara make a down payment on an advanced anti-missile air defense system.

 Turkey had previously indicated that it was interested in buying the Russian S-400 anti-missile air defense system to boost its air defense stature.

You can get 15 to 18 minutes faster from Plovdiv to village of September after the modernization of the railway track. This was admitted by  the passengers after the demonstration trip from Plovdiv station today. Among them were  the representatives of the Austrian company Thales, the contractor of the project for modernization of signaling, security and communications systems.

In September 2017, the total business climate indicator4 decreases by 0.8 percentage points in comparison with August  which is due to the more unfavourable business climate in construction, retail trade and service sector, The National Statistical Institute reports.

A man accidentally started a social media war between two of London’s biggest museums.

During The Natural History Museum’s Ask a Curator event on Twitter, one man had this pressing query he needed answering:

The dialogue between Russian and Serbian presidents, based on trust, encourages development of bilateral cooperation in all fields.

The debate has intensified about whether Greece's centrist parties can come together in a new political project that could play a significant role in domestic politics.