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Around 750 US Army tanks and other vehicles and military equipment are already in Latvia for the so-called "Operation Atlantic Resolve" exercises with NATO partners.

The drills will continue for three months, though a US military source quoted by various media outlets argues the equipment will remain in the region even after this period.

McKinsey Global Institute this week reported that global debt continues to grow. Moroever, the group says that “all major economies today have higher levels of borrowing relative to GDP than they did in 2007. Global debt in these years has grown by $57 trillion, raising the ratio of debt to GDP by 17 percentage points.”

The Voltaj band will represent Romania in the 2015 Eurovision contest with the song 'De la capat' (Over Again), after winning the national selection on Sunday night in Craiova (west of Bucharest).

Photo credit: (c) Ilie BUMBAC / AGERPRES FLOW

Voltaj got 24 points, with the specialized jury and public vote weighing 50 percent each.

Bulgaria ranks 42nd in the latest edition of the How Active are Retailers Globally? survey of global property adviser CBRE.

The survey examines the most popular destinations for global retailers in 2015.

Bulgaria ranks 42nd out of 60, sharing a place with Qatar, Kuwait, and Estonia.

According to data published in the CIA World Factbook, Bulgarian population has dropped below 7 million people.

The data was refering to the middle of 2014, and showed that Bulgarian population in fact amounts to 6,724,716 people. According to the CIA website, the information has been gathered based on population census, migration processes, life expectancy and others.

Bulgaria registered an unemployment rate of 10.8 % in January, but still remains above the EU average of 9.8 %.

This became evident from the latest figures of Eurostat, which were released on Monday.

The figures show that the unemployment rate in Bulgaria steadily decreased in the past year from 12.6 % in January 2014.

Estonia's ruling center-right Reform Party won the most votes in Sunday's general elections.

Prime Minister Taavi Roivas announced on the ETV public television station that the Reform Party had won the 2015 parliamentary elections.

Estonia is holding parliamentary elections on Sunday marked by concerns over Russia's actions in Ukraine.

Lawmakers in Germany have overwhelmingly voted for a four-month extension of the bailout program agreed between Greece and the "Troika" of international lenders.

Out of 631 lawmakers present, 542 approved, with 32 against and 13 choosing to abstain.

The European Commission made three demands towards Bulgaria in terms of complying with the legislative norms of the Union Thursday.

The representative organ has requested from the Bulgarian government that an explanation is provided in three sections: driving licences, railway transportation safety and field crops disease management.