Chemistry

Tests conducted by Greenpeace on apple orchards across Greece have revealed a toxic cocktail of pesticide residues, a report by the environmental group said on Tuesday.

The Star Refinery, the first oil refinery project in Turkey since 1975, will be online by March 2018, a $5.6 billion investment that will help decrease the country's current account gap by $2.5 billion annually, cutting Turkey's dependence on imported refined oil products, said the SOCAR Turkey CEO and board member of Petkim Petrochemical Holding, Kenan Yavuz. 

A rough analysis of genetic material from the teeth of 101 ancient humans show how mass migration changed Europeans during the Bronze Age from 3000-1000 BC. Prior to that era, people were mainly light-skinned and lactose-intolerant. They moved from hunter-gatherers to farmers and slowly created urban civilizations from Babylon to Egypt to classical Greece to Rome.

The Dita Detergent factory in the north-eastern industrial town of Tuzla was once a leading brand in the former Yugoslavia.

But after surviving the 1992-5 war it went bankrupt and stopped production as the global recession swept through the region from 2008 onwards.

Bulgargaz has proposed to cut natural gas price by 7.11% in the third quarter of the year.

The state-owned gas supplier proposed to Bulgaria's energy regulator KEVR to set the price at BGN 486.48 (EUR 248.73) per 1,000 cubic meters, which is a decrease of BGN 37.24 compared with the second quarter, Bulgargaz said in a statement on Wednesday.

In March 2015, the production of unleaded petrol increased by 127.4% on the month to 166 000 tonnes, according to Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute.

At the same time deliveries of unleaded petrol went up by 22% to 50 000 tonnes on a monthly basis.

Deliveries of unleaded petrol fell by 72.4% on the year.

A Lebanese-Canadian man detained in Greek Cyprus after two tonnes of potential bomb-making material was found in his home was reported by media May 29 to be a member of the militant group Hezbollah.

There was a leak of radioactive material on Friday on board a Turkish Airlines freight plane at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, government and airport officials said, adding it had been contained. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has vowed to support farmers if his party is elected in the June 7 general elections during a campaign stop in the Central Anatolian province of Konya. 

A joint operation by the Serbian, Spanish and Croatian police resulted in a seizure of 1.1 t of cocaine, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Thursday.

According to him, it is "one of the largest quantities seized in the past few years".