News archive of November 2018

Two patrol officers were injured on Thursday night when they came under attack after stopping two drunk men in a car on the corner of Athens's Kifissou and Petrou Ralli.

The same is true of "cooperation and peace with everyone, because only in peace can they continue to build and elevate our one and only Serbia," Vucic said in Belgrade, according to the Serbian government.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Thursday in an interview broadcast by Antena 3 private television station that he is looking forward to the day when Romania, alongside other countries, moves its Embassy for Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and gave assurances that when the move materialises, the Israeli Government will be there with "a red carpet."

First cases of infection with African swine fever virus (ASF) were found in four wild boars in Dobrich region (Northeastern Bulgaria). They were shot in a hunting farm on the land of the village of Bulgarevo, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) announced on 1st of November, reports BNT. 

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will host a four-party summit between Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Serbia in the Evksinograd residence in Varna, reports Focus News Agency

Turkish scientists have discovered a new spider species in the mountains of Northern Cyprus. 

President Alain Berset has said Switzerland will lift restrictions next year on Romanians and Bulgarians who want to work in the country. Berset said on Thursday in Bucharest that the current limits imposed on Romanian and Bulgarian workers will end next May, RT reports.

Senior trade officials from South Korea and Bulgaria held talks on how to promote closer cooperation on economic and energy matters, officials said Frida, reports Yonhap News Agency. 

It was the first time in seven years that the two nations had held such talks, South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said.

Police in central Greece are looking for two men who held up a toll station in Tragana, north of Thiva, and briefly kidnapped an employee as part of their getaway on Thursday night.

The incident occurred at around 10.30 p.m. and police have set up roadblocks across the region in the search for the red Citroen C2 the robbers used to flee after their holdup.

Some of the neo-Nazi symbols uncovered by the newspaper were apparently painted on the walls of the city buildings in 2015 or perhaps even earlier, with authorities for some reason apparently doing little to get rid of this graffiti.