News archive of August 2018

The Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) joins, as each year, the state's institutions that mark 31 August, the Romanian Language Day.

The National Defense University will host international students from 22 countries, said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Aug. 30.

Sofia. There are excellent conditions for mountain tourism, the weather is quiet, clear and calm, the Mountain Rescue Service to the Bulgarian Red Cross told Focus News Agency. There is light to moderate wind on top of the mountains. Morning temperatures range from below 10°C on the highest summits to 14-15°C at the huts.

The European Union should pursue "strategic partnerships" with Turkey and Russia in taking responsibility for its own defense and reducing its reliance on the United States, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Aug. 30.

Sofia. Today it will be mostly sunny with some more clouds in the afternoon, mainly over the mountainous regions of Western Bulgaria, and in some places there it will rain with thunder. Light to moderate wind, mostly from east. Maximum temperatures between 29°C and 34°C, in Sofia about 29°C.

Selena Gomez's great, Justin Bieber-free summer has included multiple yacht outings, Disneyland trips, and a vacation to Italy. It's winding down now with one last trip abroad to Greece and Bulgaria. Gomez herself has not posted about her time there, keeping it private.

Turkish Central Bank deputy governor and rate-setter Erkan Kilimci is leaving the bank, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Aug. 30, two weeks before the bank's monetary policy committee meets to address a slump in the Turkish Lira.

President Donald Trump has said he felt personally let down by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over his refusal to release an American evangelical pastor after the U.S. had helped a Turkish citizen detained in Israel.

OZY - When Bulgarian Tatyana Mitkova co-founded her business — ClaimCompass, which helps dissatisfied airline passengers get compensation — she found exactly what you'd expect from the startup sector: Most of the industry's other founders and investors were male.

He told Pristina-based media that he wouldn't accept that the solution be only applied to the three municipalities in the south of Serbia with the majority Albanian population.

Arifi added that the Albanians from the Southern Serbia are sceptical whether that solution was feasible.