News archive of February 2019

Turkey's machinery exports totaled over $1.3 billion in the first month of 2019, an exporters' association said on Feb. 12.

Bulgaria has made very limited progress on reforms in the economy and this has led to weak investor interest in your country. Such an opinion expressed to Darik news the American economist, Prof. Steve Hanke.

Istanbul police seized 2 tons of marijuana during an anti-narcotics operation on Feb. 12, Turkey's interior minister said.

The number of children suffering from malignant diseases of blood and brain has significantly increased and since 1999 (the year of NATO's 78-day aerial war against Serbia) and has been rising each year.

By the beginning of October, the first 5 stations of the third subway beam linking ''Graf Ignatiev'' Str and ''Krasno Selo'' district will be launched, Stoyan Bratoev, the executive director of Metropolitan Metropolitan, announced on BNT.

The other two sections of the beam will be completed by the end of the year.

The ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) argues that in any EU member state, had trials been found to have been handled by illegal judicial panels or convictions to have been handed down based on illegal secret protocols, those convicted would have been immediately exonerated.

The United States is still probing the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Feb. 11, as U.S. lawmakers continued to demand stronger U.S. action to punish the perpetrators.

Russia's Ambassador to Bulgaria Anatoly Makarov rejected the allegations of an expected Russian intervention in the elections in Bulgaria. Makarov commented on Monday the statement of GERB Deputy Chair Tsvetan Tsvetanov, who expressed his conviction that there would be such an interference. Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev also made a warning, reports Mediapool.

A prosecutor on the island of Syros on Tuesday charged two men with abduction, blackmail, dangerous bodily harm, forgery and illegal residence in the country over their alleged role in the kidnapping of a third individual in Sifnos last week.

Elderly man died in a trolleybus accident on the Acad. Ivan Evstratiev Geshov", reports Darik. 
 
According to the Ministry of the Interior, the man traveled in the trolley. At the stop of the Hygiene Center, the man went off the vehicle and fell. According to the police, the trolley driver did not assess the situation and departed earlier, NOVA reported.