Tunisia

A Tunisian border guard was killed on Aug. 23 in a shootout with jihadists on the border with Algeria, state television and the president of a union of border guards said.

A Tunisian policeman was shot dead on Aug. 19 by two assailants on a motorbike in the coastal resort of Sousse where a jihadist gunman killed 38 tourists in June, a senior security official said.

The quality of life in the Bulgarian capital steadily deteriorated, recording a drop for the fifth consecutive year.

This is revealed by the latest Global Liveability Ranking 2015 of The Economist Intelligence Unit, daily Sega informs.

Bulgaria ranks as the third most perspective destination in the world for locating manufacturing facilities.

This is revealed by the latest annual report of Cushman & Wakefield entitled "Where in the world? Manufacturing index 2015", daily Sega informs.

TUI, the world?s largest leisure tourism group, is considering a spin-off of its non-core assets, which have turnover of about three billion euros ($3.33 billion), London?s The Times newspaper reported on Aug. 17.

A Turkish hotel which staged a ?poolside jihadist assault? as entertainment has refuted a British media report that its customers were ?panicked,? hotel managers have told daily Hürriyet.

Strong summer holiday demand offset the impact of the Tunisian beach massacre for TUI which said annual profit would come in at the upper end of its forecast range.

Turkish shipyards have focused on finding new export markets as the country?s ship and yacht exports declined due to the problems in neighboring hot markets, according to sector representatives, as reported by daily Dünya. 

'Strong' evidence suggests the Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia's capital in March is linked to the beach shooting in the country's resort of Sousse in June, according to British police, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

"Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism officers say they are now connecting the two attacks based on evidence," the BBC revealed.

While big olive oil producers had their worst year in more than a decade, Turkey couldn't turn this situation to its advantage despite increasing production, as some merchants stockpiled olive oil and caused prices to rise dramatically, according to sector representatives.