News archive of March 2018

Greece and the United States should expect some "turbulence" over the next few months as Turkey gears up for the next presidential election in 2019, US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt told Vice Greece in an on-camera interview published on Friday.

The Serbian president said this on Friday, apparently in reference to the deadline Serb representatives in Kosovo gave authorities in Pristina to form the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), before they do it themselves.

Setting up the ZSO is Pristina's obligation stemming from the 2013 EU-brokered Brussels agreement.

The electricity company EVN submitted its proposal for the price of the electricity supplied by it to the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission, the company announced. It refers to the price period from July 1, 2018 to June 2019.

From March 30 to April 1, 2018, Sofia hosts the World Cup of Rhythmic gymnastics.

The tournament will feature the best competitors from 34 countries around the world.

Bulgaria will be represented by our national ensemble as well as by the individual ensembles contestants Katrin Taseva and Boryana Calleine.

The Sahara Desert has grown significantly over the past century, and climate change is largely to blame, according to a new study.

Analysing data collected since 1923, a research team examined the different factors that contributed to changes in rainfall in the Sahara region.

The Metropolitan Opera of New York is wooing a younger audience -- make that very, very young.

As the sun beats down on the barren slopes around Jerusalem, a tree of the kind believed to have provided the crown of thorns in Biblical accounts of Jesus Christ's crucifixion stands unaffected, its fruits ample and foliage green.

Germany has arrested four Syrian citizens, reportedly aged between 18 and 27, on suspicion of carrying out an attack on a Turkey-linked mosque in the southern German city of Ulm.

Tesla on March 29 issued a voluntary recall of 123,000 Model S cars to replace a power steering bolt that could corrode due to salt used on winter roads.

Following locals' reaction to a potential quarry construction on the Aegean resort island of Gökçeada, the relevant engineering and consultancy company has withdrawn their application for an environmental impact assessment (EIA or ÇED), which had been submitted earlier to the Environment and Urbanization Ministry.