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On March 31, a rare thing in our century happened in Turkey. A major power outage hit most cities in the country. It was a day to remember.

According to daily Hürriyet, a technical problem in the system of the Turkish Electricity Conduction Company (TE?A?), which operates energy transmission lines, led to the massive outage.

NIS - The International Fair of Tourism and Active Holiday starts on Thursday at the "Cair" sports center in Nis, said the organizer of the event, Tourism Organization of Nis (TON).

The show will feature holiday offers based on hiking tours and races, sailing, rafting, jeep safari, paragliding, caving, diving, mountain biking and free climbing.

Greece's air traffic controllers' union is calling for an urgent upgrade of the country's air traffic radar system and for more staff to be hired to handle the increasing number of tourists coming in.

Lazar Lazarov, Chairman of the Management Board of Bulgaria's Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA), has complained of the decades-long underfunding of the unit.

In a Tuesday interview for the morning broadcast of Nova TV, he pointed out that the only source of revenues for the RIA road repair budget were vignette stickers.

Japan donates 150 eco-friendly cars to Serbian government

BELGRADE -- The government of Japan donated 150 eco-friendly cars worth around EUR 3.5 million to the Serbian government.

The donation is meant to help boost the environmental protection and cost-cutting measures introduced by the government.

Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who reportedly crashed an Airbus en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf into a French Alps mountainside, had received treatment for suicidal tendencies prior to obtaining his commercial pilot's license.

Dusseldorf prosecutor Ralf Herrenbruck said the co-pilot had been in "psycho-therapeutic treatment with a noted suicide risk over a long period."

BELGRADE - The government of Japan donated 150 eco-friendly cars worth around EUR 3.5 million in total to help boost the environmental protection and cost-cutting measures introduced by the Serbian government.

The keys to the cars were handed over to Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Monday by Japanese Ambassador to Serbia Masafumi Kuroki.

By Ilias Bellos

Boosted by last weekend?s statement by Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis from China that the government will go ahead with the sale of the majority stake in Piraeus Port Authority (OLP), Cosco will now be able to implement its plan for the creation of a ship repair unit on the island of Salamina.

BELGRADE - Around 2,000 vehicles were sold at the 52nd International Motor Show in Belgrade, which is about 10 percent more than last year, said Milan Vukasovic, acting director of the Serbian association of car and parts importers, on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday that 1,537 official cars have been slated to go on sale.

The Serbian government decided last month to auction off 1,583 state-owned passenger vehicles.