News archive of October 2017

Within two weeks, the illegal bus station at the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral will no longer be there. Sofia Municipality officially banned  buses to stop in front of the monument.

Under the new rules, buses will only be able to leave tourists on the historic square.

The Olympic flame was handed to organizers of the 2018 Pyeongchang Games on Tuesday, and it will now head off on a 100-day journey across South Korea before the opening ceremony on February 9.

People in Bulgaria are divided into two types - those who enjoy the Halloween holiday and those who deny it.

Anyway, the holiday has already entered our country. If you are among the people who will be wearing mask, perhaps you will be curious to find out which are the most popular costumes this year. And maybe you can get ideas.

Foreign Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic said late on Monday there was "nothing new" in the messages conveyed recently by visiting of US official Brian Hoyt Yee.

Argentina's state-owned airline, Aerolíneas Argentinas , and its subsidiary, Austral Lineas Aeras, canceled all scheduled domestic and international flights on Tuesday due to the pilots' 24-hour strike, reports bgnes. 

As the president of the largest airline in the country, Mario De'Aqua, announced on Monday, the strike "will affect more than 30,000 passengers."

One person died after a man started shooting at a university in the town of Salt Lake City in the US state of Utah, reports Novosti News Agency quoted by sega.

The shooter was wearing a Santa Claus suit. The police have failed to detain him. The area of the university is blocked and the authorities continue to search for the assailant. 

Even Public Power Corporation (PPC) looks set to be among the recipients of the so-called social dividend for 2017 - part of the amount above the primary budget surplus target that the government and the country's creditors agreed last week could reach up to 1.1 billion euros.

Commuters in the Greek capital will be able to use their old punch-tickets and October passes until November 15, the Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA) said on Tuesday, revising the date from November 10 as announced earlier.

The extension of the old system was granted in response to the long queues that have been forming at issuing booths for the new electronic cards.

As many as 200 North Korean labourers have been killed after a mine shaft being dug at the regime’s nuclear test site collapsed, according to Japan’s Asahi TV.

Sources in North Korea told the news channel that a tunnel being excavated by around 100 workers at the Punggye-ri test site collapsed earlier this month.

Controversy over a new center-left party expected to be formed by the end of the year erupted on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after a televised debate between the nine candidates for its leadership.