News archive of January 2019

As of 6.00 am, there is considerable outbound truck traffic on Kapitan Andreevo and Lesovo checkpoints, Border Police said. On the borders with Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Romania, there is normal traffic on all checkpoints.

Flu epidemic was declared in the Gabrovo region as of today, school classes are suspended until February 5, the Ministry of Health said.

Considerable clouds again today with rain showers in many places across the country, snowfall in the mountain areas above 1,000 m. Due to low temperatures, in Northwest Bulgaria there will be conditions for frost, meteorologist Krasimir Stoev, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, told Focus News Agency.

Police said on Wednesday they have identified two of four men linked to an attack on international and national soccer referee Thanassis Tzilos last December in the central Greek city of Larissa.

According to reports, police will issue arrest warrants in the next few days for the two men - aged 28 and 46.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday evening in Bucharest that it is important that the European Union's defense efforts do not compete with those of the North Atlantic Alliance but are complementary.

A 34-year-old woman believed to be behind at least 56 supermarket robberies in different parts of the greater Athens area was to face a prosecutor on Wednesday on multiple charges of theft.

The woman, who was arrested in Zefyri, northwestern Athens, is believed to have worked with two accomplices, who are being sought by police.

Russia does not categorically reject the idea of establishing a safe zone in northern Syria, but the details of the U.S.-proposed zone are yet to be clarified, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said. 

Lying on thousands of years of history in Mesopotamia, Turkey's bewildering, yet beautiful, southeast is finally set to experience its golden year in tourism in 2019 as it will mark the "Year of Göbeklitepe," the site of the world's earliest temple in the Şanlıurfa province. 

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is seriously thinking about accepting into the Syriza Parliamentary group those independent deputies who have been helping his government pass important legislation, after former partner Panos Kammenos and his Independent Greeks party bolted the coalition.

In the wake of the departure from the government of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) earlier this month, leftist SYRIZA is already struggling to push legislation through Parliament.