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China plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030, which would be another advance in what's increasingly seen as a new space race.

The U.S. aims to put astronauts back on the lunar surface by the end of 2025.

Deputy Director of the Chinese Manned Space Agency Lin Xiqiang confirmed China's goal at a news conference yesterday but gave no specific date.

Konstantinos Tasoulas has been reelected as the speaker of Parliament with 270 votes.

Lawmakers from New Democracy, SYRIZA, PASOK, and Greek Solution voted in favor, while Communist Party (KKE) MPs voted "present."

In a roll call vote with 296 participating MPs, 270 voted "yes" and 26 voted "present."

The Interior Ministry has announced the completion of the counting of ballots from all polling stations in Sunday's general election.

According to the final results, New Democracy won 2,407,860 votes (40.79%, up 0.94 points) and 146 seats.

A caretaker government led by a judge and with non-politicians at the crucial posts will be sworn in Thursday.

The House of Europe in Sofia on Sunday. Photo: Ivan Shishiev, https://www.facebook.com/etiuditenasofia.

"Such acts [are] … an incompatible counterweight to present-day Bulgaria, as well as to the democratic values that our country epitomises," the ministry stated. 

Party leaders have been hosting their traditional meal for political reporters ahead of Sunday's election.

Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis gathered with journalists at a café on Ermou Street, in central Athens, where much of the conversation was said to have focused on Olympiakos' participation in the Euroleague final on Sunday.

A new opinion poll released Friday, 9 days ahead of the May 21 election, shows ruling New Democracy leading main opposition SYRIZA by 7 points in voting intentions.

Slovenia is one of the few ex-communist or ex-socialist countries that has not opted for tearing down monuments associated with the former regime after it adopted democracy in the 1990s. However, now Slovenia's first president and last head of the country's Communist party has suggested just that.

A parliamentary candidate for the Green Left Party (YSP) has been arrested in the investigation into the far-left Socialist Party of the Oppressed's (ESP) youth organization.

Running for a seat in the Central Anatolian city of Eskişehir, Müslüm Koyun was detained during a raid on his house on April 30. The arrest comes as the country prepares for presidential and general elections.

Now, from a historical distance of three decades, it is possible to analyse these documents. A particularly interesting question is how the various intelligence predictions about the situation in Bosnia measured up to what actually happened.