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Bulgaria spends far more on defense as a share of its GDP compared to Germany, Italy, and Canada, NATO data shows.

A CNN Money report, which includes Alliance data about military expenditures, cites NATO statistics according to which Bulgaria, with spending at 1.20% of GDP, ranks 12th out of 28 member states.

It is still far behind the 2% target adopted in 2014.

Hundreds of refugees are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after their boats capsized on the way to Europe, a Somali ambassador has said.

More than 400 refugees are thought to have drowned, the Somali ambassador to Egypt told BBC Arabic.

A closely-watched Italian referendum on oil and gas drilling concessions failed to reach the required turnout threshold on April 17, in a win for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi who had urged voters to stay home.

CORFU - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, who is leading a delegation to a ceremony marking the centenary of the Serbian army's landing on the Ionian island of Corfu, has said that the brotherhood of the Greek and Serbian peoples was then forged for eternity, woven into our being forever, as part of Serbia's heroic history.

Hundreds of migrants are feared to have died in a new migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said on April 18. 

Unconfirmed media reports earlier on the same day spoke of up to 400 victims from boats that capsized near the Egyptian coast as they attempted to sail to Europe. 

Several hundred people appear to have died in a new migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said on April 18. 

Unconfirmed media reports earlier on Monday spoke of up to 400 victims from boats which capsized near the Egyptian coast as they attempted to sail to Europe. 

When ?pek Cem Taha, the daughter of a former Turkish foreign minister (who passed away in 2007) decided to initiate a lasting idea to maintain her father's personal commitment for peace, the first door she knocked on was that of Yorgo Papandreu.

The popular Simon Kuper book, "Football Against the Enemy," was an analysis of the football-politics relationship and published in the U.K. in 1994. This study became a "cult book" in a short time and was translated into Turkish in 1996 and has been reprinted several times.

Yes it is a scientific fact that smoking is hazardous to people’s health. It is a also a fact that smoking is detrimental to the health of non smokers forced to inhale in closed areas. But this funny video aired on Italian TV looks at the whole ant-smoking hysteria from a different perspective. Sometime the hypocrisy inherent in all social movements is worth pointing out.

At least 41 people were killed in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the west of Ecuador in the early hours of Sunday. The epicentre of the earthquake was 20 km deep and was felt throughout the whole country, while sources say the injured are expected to be in their hundreds. There have been extensive damages though out the country, while a tsunami warning has been issued.