Italy

Two tremors have shaken the central region of Italy, local media report.

There have been no immediate reports of injuries. 

A first quake, measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale, was registered late in the afternoon, the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Institute has said.

It was followed by a 6.1-magnitude tremor that jolted Central Italy at 21:18 local time.

An 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit the Marche region in central Italy, just hours after a 5.4-magnitude temblor damaged buildings and cut power lines across the area. Buildings across the region have been damaged, but so far, there have been no reports of fatalities.

Greece named on Wednesday a consortium of France's Total, its biggest oil refiner Hellenic Petroleum and Italy's Edison as the preferred bidder for an offshore gas drilling block in the west of the country.

A total of 6,000 individuals have been relocated from Greece and Italy to other countries of the European Union in recent months, the bloc's Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos has said.

Bulgaria ranks first among ten European countries in its attractiveness to the automotive industry, a recent study of Automotive Cluster Bulgaria and Colliers International shows.

In addition, the text outlines the state of the automotive industry as of 2016.

The sale of nearly two dozen antiquities from an Ohio art museum brought in 640,000 dollars on Tuesday despite objections to the auction from the governments of Egypt and Cyprus.

The items sold were among nearly 70 pieces from Egypt, Greece and Italy that the Toledo Museum of Art plans to sell.

Temporary border controls set up inside the European Union's free-travel zone to cope with the migration crisis should be extended beyond a November 15 expiry, the European Commission proposed on Tuesday.

As Iraqi forces were inching closer to Mosul, the Western defense chiefs from the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) met in Paris to review the offensive on the jihadist bastion.

A Turkish entrepreneur has established an official betting system particularly for camel and horse races and sporting competitions in Ghana, with his company reaching 100,000 people on a monthly basis and creating 2,000 jobs. 

The death toll on the Mediterranean has nearly matched that of all last year, with more than 3,740 migrants and refugees having drowned on their way to Europe, and perilous winter months still to come, aid agencies said on Tuesday.