News archive of March 2024

Bulgarian boxing sensation Kubrat Pulev triumphed in a spectacular showdown at Arena Sofia, securing the World Boxing Association's international heavyweight title after a hard-fought battle against Ukrainian challenger Ihor Shevadzutskyi.

Today marks Easter Sunday for Catholics in Bulgaria and around the globe, a sacred occasion commemorating the Resurrection of Christ. Joining them in this celebration are the Armenian and Protestant churches, which also observe the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on this first Sunday after the vernal equinox.

Ukraine experienced another harrowing missile attack from Russia overnight, prompting air alerts across many Ukrainian regions. The Ukrainian air force reported that Tu-95 bombers launched missiles from Russia's Saratov region, targeting several western regions of Ukraine. In the north, Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions were also under attack.

The number of mobile subscribers in Türkiye reached a total of 92.2 million last year, Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said, citing data from the Information and Communication Technologies Authority's (BTK) market report.

This corresponded to a penetration rate of 108 percent and 84.9 million of those subscribers were 4.5G users, according to the minister.

Bulgaria and Romania are poised to become partial members of the Schengen area starting March 31. The European Commission announced that the Schengen rules will apply in both countries, signaling the elimination of border controls at internal air and sea borders.

Turks began voting on Sunday in municipal elections focused on President Tayyip Erdogan's bid to reclaim control of Istanbul from rival Ekrem Imamoglu, who aims to reassert the opposition as a political force after bitter election defeats last year.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is getting into the voice assistant business and showing off new technology that can clone a person's voice, but says it won't yet release it publicly due to safety concerns.

Travelers and vacationers' spending is expected to be around 100 billion Turkish Liras during the upcoming nine-day Eid holiday, according to Firuz Bağlıkaya, the president of the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TÜRSAB).

A nun makes her way to the milking pen at the Monastery of St John the Frontrunner nestled at 1,080 meters on Mount Ossa (also known as Kissavos) in Anatoli, near Larissa in central Greece. Founded by the monk St Damianos in the 16th century, the monastery was abandoned and fell into ruin in the mid-20th century, only to be revived by a group of devoted nuns in 2000.

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