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All 14 passengers survived a close brush with death on Monday when their helicopter crashed in the far east of Russia -- a rare happy ending for a country prone to aviation disasters.
      
The Mi-8 helicopter, which included 11 forest firefighters among its passengers, crashed near the village of Chekunda in the Khabarovsk region, the Federal Forestry Agency said.

The police’s cyber crimes unit has warned e-banking users to protect themselves against a new computer virus that helps criminals steal their details.

Officers said that the malware, dubbed EMOTET, is spread via e-mails, with bank customers’ receiving what looks like a genuine invoice from their lender. They are then invited to click on a link in the e-mail, which installs the virus.

Bulgaria's energy watchdog (DKEVR) will discuss and set price changes for natural gas, electricity and central heating and hot water, to come into effect on July 1. 

It is expected that the price of natural gas will be decreased by 2.47% to BGN 597.69 without excise duty and VAT for 1000 cubic meters. 

A solar panel producer in western Turkey has said the recent international media coverage of their "plug-and-play donkey" project proved that they are on the right track.

BELGRADE - Serbian experts in the fight against cyber-crime won a great international recognition at the seat of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg recently as Serbian Special Prosecutor for High-Tech Crime Branko Stamenkovic was appointed member of the Steering Committee of the Convention on Cybercrime.

Over 60% of the cars stolen in Bulgaria since the beginning of 2014, are cars of 10 years or older, of modest makes, shows Interior Ministry statistics. 

Usually they do not have a CASCO insurance and the entire loss is covered by the owner, reports the Nova TV national channel. 

Bulgaria's Government approved a plan for the construction of next generation broadband internet infrastructure, reports Dnes.bg.

It must provide access to internet with speed of 30+ Mb/s to the entire population. 

At least 50% of the households and 80% of the businesses must have access to speeds of 100 Mb/s by 2020, according to the plan.

BELGRADE - The website of the Belgrade-based daily Kurir has been attacked by hackers again, the daily reported on Thursday, urging the state bodies to ensure conditions for normal work so that it can inform the public timely and freely.

“This blow to the Kurir website is far more stronger than the one two days ago. This attack has jeopardized several other websites,” Kurir notes.

Investigators looking into the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane are confident the jet was on autopilot when it crashed in a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean, Australian officials said June 26 as they announced the latest shift in the search for the doomed airliner.

Google announced Wednesday it was working on a low-cost smartphone aimed at emerging markets as part of an initiative called Android One.