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The fire spread over 1500 hectares of forest. 500 families were evacuated as their homes were threatened by fire. Reports Bnt. 

One person was arrested and charged with arson. A California man held campfire for several days, but subsequently lost control of the fireplace. If found guilty, he may get up to seven years in prison.

In about a week's time, the public in Macedonia should learn important details about the millions of euros that the last government spent on assisting and subsidizing foreign investors, the new Social Democrat-led government said.

A compulsory and free pre-primary education should be introduced for 4- and 5-year-old children, Ombudswoman Maya Manolova said during a discussion on ethnic integration in Asenovgrad.

She estimated the associated costs at nearly BGN 19 million.

University rectors, who held an emergency meeting Monday, voiced disapproval of the government's proposed changes to tertiary education. The rectors are against the provisions regarding immunity within university grounds, postgraduate studies, the scrapping of differences between universities and technical colleges, and the election of professors via secret ballots.

Yet again, the Teachers Federation of Greece stands firm against any attempts to even think about evaluating its members, let alone allow it to actually happen. And they are not the only ones who are fervently fighting to prevent this from happening.

The İhsanoğlu Gold Medal, granted in an international competition held once every four years for doctoral theses on the history of science in Islam, will be offered for the third time in a ceremony during the 25th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine (ICHSTM) in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in July. 

The prime minister of demographic and economic policy, Valeri Simeonov announced on BNT that he is against the wild camping, and he will not permit it to happen by the current governance, reported Dnevnik.

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In a joint question tabled on Tuesday in Parliament for the attention of the tourism, justice and interior ministers, a group of 38 MPs of leftist SYRIZA called for the decriminalization of free camping in the Greek countryside.

The "thesis writing sector" in Turkey is expanding, as a large number of undergraduate, masters and PhD students in the country pay to have their theses written by others, daily Habertürk reported on March 23.