Alabama

A charter school commission in the U.S. state of Alabama approved on June 7 a 1-year extension to start operation of a charter school despite objections of the superintendent of education, experts and local Alabamians.

Kiss have announced the first 44 dates of their farewell tour, titled the End of the Road and expected to run for three years, reported bTV. 

The veteran band will start the run on Jan. 31, 2019, in Vancouver and end it on April 13 in Birmingham, Ala.

You can see the full list of dates below.

Alabama state and business leaders are visiting two eastern European nations this week on a five-day mission to open new markets.

Alabama Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield and representatives of seven companies are visiting Romania and Bulgaria this week, with meetings scheduled in Bucharest and Sofia.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told The New York Times on Thursday that Macedonia had become involved in the spread of fake news.

Discussing the scandal involving British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica obtaining access to more than 50 million Facebook users' data in 2014, he said: 

Alabama-based artist B'Beth Weldon joins forces with Greek painter and fellow member of the Art Committee Board for the United States Sports Academy Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki for a show titled "Women Bridging Worlds" at the Ikastikos Kyklos Sinati gallery.

Democrat Doug Jones, who is a former prosecutor, won the Alabama partial elections for a seat in the US Senate, AP said.

Voters in the highly conservative state, which is considered a republican fortress, have struck President Trump and have nearly wiped out Senate Republican fragile leadership.

Democrat Doug Jones won a bitter fight for a U.S. Senate seat in deeply conservative Alabama on Dec. 12, dealing a political blow to President Donald Trump in a race marked by sexual misconduct accusations against Republican candidate Roy Moore.   

Bulgaria's new star swimmer Anthony Ivanov chose to continue his education and career at the University of Alabama, Alberta, said BGswim.com.

The power of hurricane Nate has fallen and now is tropical depression after causing floods and heavy rainfall in the southeastern part of the United States, reports Mediapool. 

An emergency situation has been declared along the Gulf of Mexico in the United States because of Hurricane Nate, who has reached the Mississippi River Delta and southern Louisiana, the BNR said.