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The number of irregular migrants who entered Greece from Turkey increased by 37 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year, Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Markos Bolaris has said.

Turkey's external assets totaled $243.6 billion as of February this year, the country's Central Bank announced on April 18.       

New data shows children, ages 0-17, made up 28 percent of Turkey's population in 2018.

An Albanian biometric passport. Photo courtesy: Bevis Fusha / Safran

It comes after parliament in the Netherlands voted to deploy the so-called Emergency Break Mechanism for Albania due to concerns about rising criminal activity by Albanian nationals in the country.

By George Gilson

Nearly three decades after it was finished by Yannis Pappas, one of the greatest Greek sculptors of the 20th century, a bronze equestrian statue of Alexander the Great has finally been installed in central Athens near the Zappeion, very near Syntagma Square and even closer to the columns of the Temple of Olympian Zeus.

Mali did this alongside LSE's CEO Nikhil Rathi, with whom he afterwards discussed the potentials for investing in Serbia and possibilities for cooperation, Tanjug is reporting.

At least six people have died after a small plane fell over a residential building in the city of Puerto Montmut, Chile, local radio reported.
 
According to preliminary data, all the dead were on board the plane.
 
At the place of the tragedy, a fire broke out.
 

Turkey's defense minister and his U.S. counterpart on April 16 met in Washington to discuss recent political and military developments.       

Turkey's industrial production in February rose by 1.3 percent from a month earlier, the Turkish Statistics Insititute announced on April 16.

On April 15, 2019 in Budapest, Hungary, in the framework of the Second Meeting of the Intergovernmental Bulgarian-Hungarian Commission for Economic Cooperation, BSMEPA together with its Hungarian partner - the Hungarian Export Promotion Agency organized a business forum with bilateral meetings.