News archive of April 2018

The Russian foreign ministry said it has banned a number of Lithuanian politicians, lawmakers and political analysts from entering Russia, Reuters reported.

Bulgaria is at the forefront of pulmonary disease incidence. This was announced by Dr. Sofia Angelova, chairman of NADPB Association.
 

South Korea's president Moon Jae-in's rating for the first time in the past four months exceeded 70 percent after his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Jonhap said after a sociological study.

Prosecutors have demanded five-year jail sentences for former Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş and HDP Ankara deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder on charges of "making terrorist propaganda."

Racist graffiti has been written on the wall of the Armenian Surp Takavor Church in Istanbul's Kadıköy district, weekly newspaper Agos has reported.

On the eve of Labor Day, the people satisfied with the money they get in their work are more than those who are dissatisfied, the Gallup International sociological agency said on its website. The personal assessment of the Bulgarians for their work is rather good. There is positive judgment for supervisors.

The Family and Social Policies Ministry on April 30 lifted the rule requiring a citizen to be at least 40 years old in order to be eligible to adopt a child.

Opposition parties have strongly responded to speculations that Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın have visited former President Abdullah Gül to convince the latter not to run for presidency, stating that such a visit "amounts to a military intervention of politics." 

Armenian opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan was formally nominated for the post of prime minister by his supporters, inching closer to victory after two weeks of protests that transformed the country's political landscape.

A senior Kuwaiti official sought on April 30 to calm a crisis with the Philippines over the treatment of domestic workers in the oil-rich Gulf state.