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Ljubljana – The outcome of a referendum on the right to abortion in the conservative US state of Kansas is not as surprising as it might seem initially, since it reaffirms what opinion polls have been saying all along, says Dnevnik on Thursday, highlighting that the divide on this issue is not as simple as the Republicans vs Democrats divide.

Bulgaria ranks 88th among 104 countries in a new international Gallup survey entitled World Happiness Report 2018-2020.

Six parties enter the 46th National Assembly. This is shown by the data from the exit poll of the sociological agencies Gallup International Balkan and Trend, announced immediately after the end of the election day.

A woman receives a COVID-19 vacine at the Military Medical Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria, February 22, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEV

According to Gigov, while 4.6 million doses of different brands have been distributed, only 1.8 million have been used. The expiry date is close for those jabs that arrived in late 2020 or early 2021. 

As the day progresses, the turnout is getting higher, by 5 p.m., it was 38.2%, according to exit poll data from the Gallup, the agency that is also a partner of BNR in this election.

On air of Radio Horizont, the sociologist Svetlin Tachev said:

The June 2017 report had put the figure at 3.5 percent.

The World Bank now says that in 2019 and 2020, Serbia will have GDP growth rates of 3.5 and 4 percent.

Serbia's economy grew by two percent in 2017, according to the financial institution's estimate in the January 2018 report.

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According to the MUP the drugs were found on the northern Horgos border crossing between Serbia and Hungary, and an investigation into the case is ongoing.

The daily Blic reported earlier in the day that this was one of the biggest cocaine hauls in Serbia in several years, while the street value of the confiscated narcotics stands at "at least one million euros."

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There has been a frightening rise in the number of women who have recently had to quit their jobs in order to carry out childcare or elderly care in Turkey. Reforms must urgently be made to address this trend. 

"There is something rotten in the state of Denmark" says Marcellus in the first act of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Living in Ankara, I can relate to that. 

The gap between Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and conservative GERB party is narrow two weeks out of the early election and the next fortnight will be decisive, a Gallup poll has suggested.

The pollster argues six parties would enter Parliament if the election were held on Wednesday, March 8.