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More than 200 migrants are feared to have died in the Mediterranean over the weekend, according to testimony from survivors, and several bodies, including that of an infant, have washed up on a Libyan beach.

The number of weapons used by civilians in Turkey rose by 10 percent in the first three months of 2017, according to statistics released by the Interior Ministry. 

The total number of licensed weapons used by civilians reached 338,052 with the increase, the ministry said upon a parliamentary question regarding individual arming by independent lawmaker Aylin Nazlıaka. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on May 8 said he aimed to boost economic and military ties with Arab Gulf states, as talks on a free trade zone deal pushed ahead.

Erdoğan, who is expected in Kuwait on May 9, said Ankara was involved in "high level strategic dialogue" with the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the state-run KUNA news agency reported.

On May 9, the Europe Day, at 21:30 p.m. the Information Desk of the European Parliament for Bulgaria and the European Commission in Bulgaria will present a sound and luminous 3D mapping show "Europe - your home".

The place will be at "Alexander I" square on the building of the National gallery.

The Bulgarian President Rumen Radev congratulate the new elected French president Emmanuel Macron with Facebook and Twitter publications, reported BGNES.

More than 85 percent of shops across Greece remained closed on Sunday, said the National Confederation of Greek Commerce (ESEE) which opposes reforms demanded by the country's international creditors.

Three people died, and 40 are injured in twenty heavy accidents on the road in the past 24-hour. The life of five of the injured is threatened. This announced the MIA's (the Ministry of Internal Affairs) Press Centre, reported Focus News Agency.

In Sofia are registered 51 slight and one severe road accidents.

EU sanctions on Turkey would open deepen the country's problems instead of encouraging democracy, the secretary-general of the Turkish Industry and Business Foundation (TÜSİAD) has said, noting that the bloc must wisely and pragmatically manage this paradox.

BELGRADE - Serbia's EU Integration Minister Jadranka Joksimovic said Thursday she expected a relatively positive report on fulfilment of benchmarks and activities under the action plan for Chapter 23 in Serbia's EU accession talks.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel grimaces as she arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)