News archive of January 2023

District Court - Stara Zagora decided to extradite a young Bulgarian who worked in a call center to Germany. He was requested with a European arrest warrant after four other colleagues of his were detained and extradited, reported the court's press center.

Main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras is engaging in "extortion" and "degrading the institutional pillars of Greek democracy," government spokesperson Giannis Oikonomou has said, following SYRIZA's announcement that it will abstain from all parliamentary procedures until the prime minister announces a general election date.

The United States is calling on Bulgaria and North Macedonia to "de-escalate" their rhetoric and quickly resolve "bilateral disputes".

This is stated in a position of the US State Department, expressed to the Macedonian section of "Voice of America".

Ambassador Ioannis Raptakis and Lieutenant-General Georgios Kellis have been appointed deputy chiefs of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), following a decision of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

The Metropolis of Chisinau and All of Moldova, widely known as the Moldovan Orthodox Church, asked the government on Monday not to recognise same-sex couples' partnerships as legal or bring in legislation to protect LGBT couples' rights in line with a recent European Court of Human Rights ruling.

Greece's main opposition party on Tuesday demanded the dissolution of Parliament and immediate elections, accusing the conservative New Democracy government of being "morally and politically compromised."

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will on Wednesday attend a ceremony marking the start of works to build a Bulgaria-Serbia gas interconnector.

Vucic will also have a bilateral meeting with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Astana, Kazakhstan, October 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/VYACHESLAV PROKOFYEV / KREMLIN / SPUTNIK

The TurkStat figures show that in the January-December 2022 period, imports had a value of $363.71 billion, a 34 per cent increase on the previous year. Imports from Russia have doubled in value.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the world number one in men's tennis singles, could play at the US Open following the latest decisions by US authorities.

The Biden administration has announced it would on May 11 lift the COVID-19 emergency introduced in 2020.

The six-party Nation Alliance's government program is the first of its kind throughout the "history of democracy," in Türkiye, the Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on Jan. 31.