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Romanian citizen, family member evacuated from Yemen

One Romanian citizen one family member were evacuated from Yemen on Sunday, the Spokesperson and Communication Directorate of the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) informed in a release to AGERPRES.

People line up for lunch at the Chinese Linyi missile frigate, April 2, 2015.
Photo credit: (c) Pan Siwei / XINHUA FLOW

Bulgarian FM Condemns Kenya University Terrorist Attack

Bulgaria condemned the terrorist attack on Garissa University College in Kenya carried out by the Somali terrorist organisation Al-Shabaab on Thursday, which left 147 civilians dead and 79 injured.

Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry expressed its firm opposition against all forms of terrorism, the ministry's press service reports.

Access to Key Bulgarian Government Websites Restored

Access to the websites of Bulgaria's government and the President's office has been restored on Wednesday evening following a short outage, a search by Novinite has shown.

The reason or the reasons for the disruption that started around 6.30 p.m. (1530 GMT) and  lasted about half an hour, were not immediately clear.  

Turkey dismisses claims of support for fall of Syria's Idlib

Ankara has strictly refuted charges by neighboring Syria that Turkey assisted Islamist rebels staging an assault on Idlib, a provincial capital that opposition fighters seized over the weekend.

Any intervention into Idlib by Turkey is ?untrue,? said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said at a press conference on March 31.

INTERVIEW Malginov: I hope the officials who say that is a defensive system at Deveselu believe in it;but we have a different opinion

Interview with the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Bucharest, Oleg Malginov

Photo credit: (c) ANGELO BREZOIANU / AGERPRES PHOTO

AGERPRES: Mr Ambassador, how would you rate the relationship between Romania and the Russian Federation right now?

Ai Weiwei, Joan Baez honored by Amnesty International

Amnesty International awarded its top honor Tuesday to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who has spent years shining light on his country's restrictive political atmosphere, and to U.S. folk singer Joan Baez for her civil rights activism.
     
Both were named recipients of Amnesty's Ambassador of Conscience Award, which recognizes lifetime human rights leadership.

Turkey to train, equip Syrian rebels in border province, too

Turkey will provide a military facility in the southern province of Hatay, along with the Hirfanl? military base in the central Anatolian province of K?r?ehir, for the training-equip program with the U.S. in the struggle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Turkish official has told the Hürriyet Daily News.

Turkish politicians head to Washington over worries about Armenian resolution

Worried about a draft resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that recognizes the 1915 killings of Ottoman Armenians as genocide, a group of Turkish politicians have set out for Washington to ensure that the resolution does not pass.

Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek arrived in Washington and is expected to meet his counterpart at the House of Representatives on March 25.

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