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Bulgaria has highest percentage in the European Union (EU) of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion - 41.3%, media giant Bertelsmann says in a report.

One-third of the Bulgarians have no resources to cover basic needs, necessary for normal life, according to the report.

As many as 325 polling stations have been opened across the world for the need of the Bulgarian diaspora, election authorities say on Sunday, as Bulgarians are voting for President.

The Ministry of Foreign affairs has published a list with information about new addresses of electoral sections abroad for the second round of the presidential elections on November 13, announced the ministry.

Corrections have been made to the addresses of voting sections in the USA, Spain, France and Germany.

The list is still being updated.

The ancestor of the game of chess is believed to date back to India in the sixth century.

However, in the ancient Orient, from China to Egypt, several similar games representing a combat between pawns on a kind of draughtboard also existed.

NATO, with the participation of a Turkish frigate, has begun a new standing maritime security operation in the Mediterranean Sea named Operation Sea Guardian.

Rather than imitating its valuable "real" siblings, creative faux jewelry has long taken a bold stylistic direction of its own. As Coco Chanel, a designer whose adornment vision included both real and fake pieces, once put it: "Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautiful."

On November 3, the London-based research institute Legatum released its 10th annual global Prosperity Index, which evaluates countries based on a variety of factors, namely health, happiness and the economic prosperity of its inhabitants.

ApArt in central Athens is hosting an exhibition-sale of luxury vintage costume jewelry running from Friday, November 11, to Sunday, November 13. Going on display are pieces created for leading French fashion houses Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Dior, Lanvin, Scherrer and Spain's Loewe.

Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal have modified state guarantees on deferred tax assets created by banks following discussions with European Union regulators concerned that these may give the lenders an unfair advantage, the bloc's state aid chief said on Tuesday.

German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Nov. 7 that the European Union must modernize its military defense and security to match NATO's drive to beef up its own security forces in the wake of a major Russian build-up.