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The body of a young man has been found lifeless at the entrance of an apartment block on Macedonia Blvd, in the center of Bulgaria's capital Sofia, authorities say.

Police on Saturday raided an apartment in central Athens and found more than 91,000 pieces of contraband retail products, including over 33,000 pairs of knock-off designer sunglasses and 24,000 brand labels.

Authorities were looking for the person believed to have been renting the space, located near Omonia Square.

The relationship between art and government is not a new topic, but this does not mean we will not discuss it over and over again. Come on, let’s discuss it.

The local market’s seven-month slide came to an end in November, with the month providing a 5.17 percent boost to the benchmark, which looks more like a correction considering the previous period of losses. The growth trend was confirmed on Friday as traders gave a final push to the main index, although many observers argue that was little more than window dressing.

A former professor at Ege University in Turkey’s Aegean city of İzmir will enter jail on Nov. 27 to serve his two-year sentence for preventing a female student with a headscarf from entering the faculty building, becoming the first individual to be sentenced according to the law.

Turkey should follow the West and impose sanctions on Russia, the leader of the Crimean Tatars has said during a visit to Ankara, reproaching his hosts for continuing trade with Moscow.

After the morning growth up to the 1.024 points, the benchmark of the Athens stock market dived to 945 before settling for 958 at the end of Monday's session, as investors chose to cash in on the gains generated last week before the announcement of the banks’ stress test results on Sunday.

Bulgarian Red Cross expects a refugee wave, and is properly preparing to face it, Hristo Grigorov, head of the organization said, Friday, Darik news reports.

He explained that currently the refugee situation in the country is under control.

A mosaic of Medusa, the terrible creature of Greek mythology who turned all those who looked her to stone, is being restored in the southern province of Burdur She may no longer turn people into stone, but Medusa continues to arrest onlookers; now, even more people will have a chance to glimpse at mythology’s most famous gorgon with completion nearing on the restoration of a mosaic at the an

Diplomacy may be the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for the directions, but in the Turkish case there are too many people who the Turks are telling to go to hell and, more problematically, they do not seem to be asking for the directions. But Ankara is trying nonetheless.