News archive of August 2018

Sofia. As of today, Bulgaria will refuse entry/stay in its territory to third-country nationals in respect of whom an alert for refusal of entry or stay has been issued in the Schengen Information System (SIS), said the Ministry of Interior press office.

Sofia. Revenue agencies work well. The budget surplus is good, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said at the beginning of the regular government meeting, Focus News Agency reports. "The fight against corruption and smuggling is going well. The most material expression is money in the budget," the prime minister said.

A Turkish beggar has said she earns 500 Turkish Liras ($101) by begging for half of a day. 

Conservative New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday visited the Canadair base in Elefsina, western Attica, and thanked the firefighters he met there for their efforts to douse last week's catastrophic blazes.

Turkish manufacturing activity contracted for the fourth consecutive month in July as new orders and output slowed, a business survey showed on Aug. 1.

Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) reported on Aug. 1 a total of 536,916 road motor vehicles were registered in the first half of this year.

UAE's Bin Zayed (C) seen with Ethiopian PM Ahmed (L) and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki last week

The Commander of NATO's Allied Joint Force in Naples, Admiral James Fogo, has said that NATO is ready to react if violent incidents erupt in the Serb-majority north of Kosovo - after a leading Serbian Orthodox cleric in Kosovo, Abbot Sava Janjic, warned of the risk of "staged" violence there.

A total of 10 feature films and 19 feature films are competing for the "Full Moon 7" award within the Horror and Fantastic Film Festival due in Biertan, between 9 and 12 August, a press release sent to AGERPRES on Wednesday informs.

Officers of the Thessaloniki security police's anti-extortion unit have arrested a 53-year-oldl man who allegedly demanded 70,000 euros from the owner of a private clinic in the northern port, claiming to represent the family of a deceased former patient.