News archive of April 2019

Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed acting president Juan Guaido said on Tuesday that troops had joined his campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro as the government vowed to put down what it called an attempted coup.

And Serbia will protect the interests of the people and the state, he told Prva TV a day after a meeting on Kosovo in Berlin, called by Germany and France.

Monday's Berlin Summit on the Western Balkans ended without a hoped-for breakthrough in restarting EU-mediated talks between Kosovo and Serbia, making it unlikely that a mutually binding agreement to normalise relations will be reached this year.

Schools affiliated with FETÖ are still active in 75 countries, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said in reply to a parliament questionnaire.

Turkey's Kale Group has successfully tested the country's first domestically developed turbojet engine, KTJ-3200, at facilities located in Istanbul's Tuzla district.

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in May 2017 to investigate links between the Russian government and President Donald Trump's campaign, said on April 29 he was resigning from his post.

The owner of the van transporting Bulgarians, which on Monday crashed on a highway in Romania, has no license for passenger transport but only for freight. This was made clear by the inspection started by the Ministry of Transport, Dir.bg reported.

Emperor Akihito of Japan formally stepped down on April 30, the first abdication for 200 years in the world's oldest monarchy, as his son Naruhito prepared to take the Chrysanthemum Throne and usher in a new imperial era.

The Ministry of Tourism has begun checking in a four-star hotel in Rousse, which placed children in dangerous rooms, NOVA said.

This was first announced by parents of the 9th graders from Sofia. The inspection so far shows that the premises where the children were officially did not exist in the hotel base and should not be sold to customers at all.

In March 2019, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 478.3 thousand (Annex, Table 1) or by 3.5% above the registered in March 2018, according to data of the National Statistical Institute.