News archive of December 2018

A residents' group in Mati, the east Attica town worst hit by last summer's deadly fires, is accusing the government, and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in particular, of delays in the process that will allow them to repair or rebuild homes and businesses affected by July's blaze, which claimed 100 lives.

The Turkish user behind the controversial Twitter account named "Allah" has been convicted by a court.

Mass tax control begins in the winter resorts at the beginning of the new year. There will be over 15,000 planned inspections by the National Revenue Agency (NRA) by the end of the season, announced the NRA, reports Mediapool. 

President Donald Trump threatened Friday to seal the US-Mexico border "entirely" if Congress does not approve billions of dollars in funding for a wall, reports AFP. 

Three Vietnamese holidaymakers and an Egyptian tour guide were killed Friday when a roadside bomb blast hit their bus as it travelled close to the Giza pyramids outside Cairo, officials said, reports AFP. 

A statement by the public prosecutor's office said 11 other tourists from Vietnam and an Egyptian bus driver were wounded when the homemade device exploded.

New rules to strengthen the Schengen Information System (SIS) - proposed by the Commission in December 2016 and adopted earlier this year - are entering into force today.

Nearly 350 archaeological excavations were carried out in 2018 in Turkey. The Culture and Tourism Ministry allocated 26 million Turkish Liras for the excavations. Nearly 50 rescue excavations are still continuing in the country. Click through for this year’s top 10 discoveries, ranked by Hürriyet's archaelogy reporter Ömer Erbil...

The clouds will be significant and there will be precipitation in many places in North and East Bulgaria. It will blow up to a moderate wind from north to northwest, and cold air will come in with it. Today until noon in places in the Danube Plain and Predbalkan the rain will transform to low snow.

The trips of Bulgarian citizens abroad in November 2018 amounted to 426.3 thousand, or 2.1 percent more than those registered in November 2017, the National Statistical Institute reported.
 
Compared to November 2017, there was an increase in all observed targets.
 

Water prices are rising by up to 10% in 26 locations in 2019. This was decided by the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission in a closed sitting on 28th of December. The largest increase of water prices is in Burgas and Sofia - by 10%. The most expensive will be the water supply service in Shumen, where a cubic metre of water will cost 3.40 BGN, reports BNT.