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Bulgaria will draft a roadmap for the criteria it needs to fulfill to get visa liberalization for travels to Canada, the leaders of the two countries have agreed.

Meeding Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has said the text will be put forward for consideration "as soon as possible", the Bulgarian Presidency quotes Plevneliev as saying.

Forthnet announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with China International Television Corporation (CITVC) with the aim of cooperation between the two parties.

CITVC's Great Wall TV is the only legally authorized Chinese TV package for overseas broadcasts and includes 33 general and specialized live TV channels.

Turkey ranked as having the worst environment for social entrepreneurs, scoring poorly in most of 12 indicators used to measure political, economic, regulatory and cultural factors, according to Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of almost 900 social enterprise experts in the world's 45 biggest economies. 
Ireland and Venezuela also fared badly. 

Ankara has warned officials in the United States that they should detain Pennsylvania-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen before he escapes to another country, in a temporary detention request sent by the Turkish Justice Ministry to Washington on Sept. 13. 

As the saying goes ‘Beaty is in the eye of the beholder’. But one dating site, begs to differ. ‘Beautifulpeople.com’ only accepts daters based on their perceived attractiveness as rated by its users. The site has compiled a list of the most beautiful from the data it has collected. Here os the list of the sexiest nationalities in the world, according to the dating site.

Excavations carried out for more than 100 years by the Austrian Archaeology Institute in the ancient city of Ephesus in western Turkey have been cancelled two months before scheduled this season, through a decision by the Turkish Foreign Ministry. 

"Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," Mark Twain quipped more than 100 years ago. Now, a 61-year-old Turkish woman is also saying the same thing, but she's having a tough time convincing authorities that it's the truth.

If necessity is the mother of invention, eight years of a crippling recession and dwindling work prospects has compelled at least some Greeks to reboot, switch professions and innovate to survive.

Turkey's famous reed and baglama virtuoso, Ömer Faruk Tekbilek, says it is a gift from God that his team is made up of Greek, Armenian and Jewish musicians, as well as Turks. 

Synthesizing Eastern and Western melodies with folkloric and Sufi music in his works, Tekbilek is an internationally-acclaimed artist. 

PARIS - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the current world number one in men's tennis, was on Friday drawn to play Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei in the Roland Garros opener.

Djokovic could face arch-rival Rafael Nadal of Spain in the semi-finals.