News archive of March 2018

Mohamed Salah might not have won his duel with Cristiano Ronaldo during the international break, but the Liverpool winger is on the verge of being ranked alongside the Portugal superstar after his record-breaking season.

Hundreds of LA Galaxy supporters mobbed Swedish football legend Zlatan Ibrahimovic as he arrived at Los Angeles International Airport late on March 29.

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on Friday sought the immediate removal of the head of Kosovo's Intelligence Agency, Driton Gashi, and the Interior Minister, Flamur Sefaj, after a group of Turkish citizens were arrested and reportedly deported on Thursday without his knowledge.

The Serbian capital's new mayor will have to be elected by the Assembly within the following 30 days.

Local elections were held in Belgrade on March 4, when the list of President Aleksandar Vucic's ruling SNS party won 44.99 percent of the vote, and 64 seats in the City Assembly - an absolute majority.

More than 3 million foreigners visited Turkey in the first two months of 2018, with the tourism sector seeing a significant recovery in the number of arrivals from Europe, official data has shown. 

If the anti-vaccination trend gains pace, this may produce serious consequences, including an epidemic, warns Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ceyhan, a member of the immunization advisory board of the Health Ministry.

Turkey's foreign trade deficit rose to $5.76 billion in the second month of the year with a 54.2 percent year-on-year increase, official data has shown. 

Turkey will take steps to ease the process for the establishment of investment banks in the country, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek said late on March 29.

The competition will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 16 to 22 April 2018 for the category Chamber Music and from 8 to 12 October 2018 for the category Composition.
The competition is open to young performers from Bulgaria and abroad. All participants are given an opportunity to compete and communicate with their

The defense minister also told TV Pink on Friday that the EU has "recognized that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic must be talked with it they want peace in the region" - because the situation "came to the edge" after Monday's incidents in Kosovo when Serbian official Marko Djuric was arrested.