News archive of July 2018

Turkey's foreign trade deficit declined to $5.5 billion in June with a nearly 8.9 percent year-on-year decrease, preliminary data from the Customs and Trade Ministry has shown.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he heard "unimaginable" accounts of atrocities during a visit Monday to vast camps in Bangladesh that are home to a million Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar.

Turkish manufacturing activity contracted for the third month running in June as new orders slowed, a business survey showed on July 2.

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He will meet with President Aleksandar Vucic, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, and will sign a financial agreement with the Minister for EU Integration Jadranka Joksimovic.

Vucic and Hahn will attend the signing of an agreement for the implementation of the IPA Program for the Republic of Serbia for 2017 in the amount of 41,177,139 euros.

Four are the victims of torrential rains and floods in Romania over the past two days, mediafax reports.

Prices of electricity for household consumers in Romania declines by about 3.5% from today, Mediafax reports.
This is after the entry into force of a new methodology for calculating tariffs, which was announced by the national regulator at the end of May.

Istanbul's sole botanical garden will be evicted as the 17 decares of land has been allocated to Istanbul's mufti to use as an office, daily Sözcü reported on July 1.

A puppy has been flown from southeastern Turkey to Istanbul for an emergency medical operation after it was assaulted with a shot gun, in the latest incident in which a stray animal is targeted. 

A criminal group that has distributed drugs in Sofia has been busted under a GDBOP operation. A total of 17 people are detained, 10 will be charged.

The operation was held at the end of the week in several cities across the country. During the arrests and searches, small quantities of different drugs were found in a number of detainees.