News archive of November 2018

On Saturday European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides will visit the ACS Athens campus to observe the school's Youth-to-Youth educational and social integration program in action, meet with young refugees and talk to volunteer teachers and ACS students.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Bulgaria at the invitation of the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. A one-to-one meeting started between the two at 18.00on 1st of November in Euxinograd residence, in Bulgaria's Black Sea coastal city of Varna, reports BNT. 

The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) said it has implemented a programme for enhanced observation of poultry farms in connection with the latest cases of bird flu. The measures include biosecurity in farms, more frequent laboratory control and prevention across the country. Birds could be transported only after laboratory tests, reports Focus News Agency. 

A total of 28 illegal migrants were found in two police operations in the capital city, the Ministry of Interior said, reports Focus News Agency. 

Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) have relaunched a passenger flight route between the countries after a 12-year interruption as the nations seek to mend ties after reaching an accord in June to end a decades-old row over the ex-Yugoslav Republic's name.

Greece's Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou on Wednesday ordered an investigation into alleged illicit payments by Chinese nationals for the acquisition of Greek properties involving a Greek entrepreneur.

The International Monetary Fund has underlined the need for planned pension cuts to be carried out while conceding that the negotiation is between Greece and its European partners as the Fund did not participate in the country's last bailout program.

After an Athens prosecutor ordered a probe into the circumstances surrounding the death of 35-year-old Konstantinos Katsifas, an ethnic Greek man who was fatally shot in southern Albania last Sunday, his family asked Albanian authorities for the man's body so they can arrange the burial, lawyers representing Katsifas's relatives said on Thursday.

There were 393 registered adoptions in 2017, marking a 77.8 percent rise compared to 2016, when there were 221, according to Greek statistics agency ELSTAT.

The largest increase was recorded in the area including the Aegean islands and Crete, with a 93.8 percent rise.

A married couple, both 45, were arrested in Attica on Thursday on charges of trying to sell illegally owned coins dating to the Byzantine era over the internet.

Authorities were led to the couple after police in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday seized three parcels containing five coins which arrived at a courier's office.