News archive of October 2022

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Biden: For the first time since the Cold War, there is a threat of nuclear Armageddon

US President Joe Biden said the world risks facing nuclear Armageddon for the first time since the beginning of the Cold War.

European leaders turned a cold shoulder to the Turkish president at the Prague Summit, as Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be paying for his dead-end policy and inflammatory statements against Greece.

His decision to issue provocations during the leaders' dinner and attack Greece backfired on the Turkish president, as Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis responded immediately.

A business mission of Dutch companies and branch organizations is visiting Bulgaria between 10 and 13 October of this year. The main goal of the mission is to increase Bulgarian production of fresh fruits and vegetables in the next few years by bringing in knowledge and technologies from the Netherlands.

The new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria for the last 24 hours are 685, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal.

5383 tests were done, which means that the share of positive results is 12.7 percent.

Four patients with confirmed coronavirus infection have died.

Bulgaria is looking for an interim solution for fighters while the US F-16 project starts. Negotiations are underway with Sweden and several other countries, President Rumen Radev announced after the meeting of the European Political Community in Prague.

As part of the Beyoğlu Cultural Road Festival, two works by the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet (IDOB), Mozart's masterpiece 'Abduction from the Seraglio' and the modern dance show 'New Life,' will be simultaneously staged on Oct 12 at the Atatürk Cultural Center's two different halls.

Today he had a series of meetings with numerous leaders.

It is about a new informal format, which was first mentioned by the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, and which will bring together, among others, the former EU member Great Britain, the decades-long candidate for accession - Turkey, but also the new candidate Ukraine, as well as candidates and those who are not from the Western Balkans.

"With the eighth package of sanctions against Russia, the EU is actually introducing a first package of sanctions against Serbia, which depends on Russian oil supplies through Croatia", Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said.

Ambassador Giuseppina Zarra participated today in the ceremony for the opening of direct flights between Sofia and Rome of the Italian national airline ITA Airways.