News archive of August 2019

Turkey and Iraq have agreed to establish a water resources center in Baghdad to study and address water issues in the region.       

From August 1, visitors to museums and archaeological sites in Egypt will get the opportunity to take free photos and videos via mobile phones. The decision was taken by the country's Antiquities Ministry in early July and is expected to help attract more tourists to Egypt.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan late on July 31 night held a telephone conversation with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud, according to Turkey's Presidential Directorate of Communications.       

Authorities on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes are investigating the death of two sisters in a hotel swimming pool the previous evening.

The two girls have been identified as French tourists who were holidaying on the island with their families. They were aged 16 and 19 years old.

From July 31 to Monday, August 5, a state of emergency was declared in the Northern Bulgarian region of Silistra because of a confirmed case of African Swine Fever in a pig-breeding farm in the village of Popina. The Regional Food Safety Directorate will organize a 12-hour inspection at slaughterhouses in Dulovo, Tutrakan, and Sitovo in the area.

This morning will start with rain for northeast areas, and later in the day also in many areas across the country, meteorologist Boryana Markova of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH) told Focus News Agency. Heavier rain expected in eastern Bulgaria. Thunderstorms are also possible.

Some 30 hooded individuals clashed with police in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia on Wednesday night, marring an otherwise peaceful protest over the release from prison of a police officer who shot and killed a teenager in the area in 2008.

Some 130 armed police officers will begin patrolling metro stations in Athens next week as part of the government's much-touted plan to restore law and order across the Greek capital.

Greece accused Turkey of undermining security in the eastern Mediterranean by drilling for oil and gas around Cyprus, making some of the strongest comments on the issue from Athens' newly elected government.