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At least one sector in the Greek economy has improved its performance over the last 12 months, as Greece climbed seven spots in the World Economic Forum's Tourism Competitiveness Index for 2017.

With a campaign on April 9, the day of the big Christian holiday Palm Sunday (Tsvetnitsa), the spring campaign for voluntary blood donation continues throughout Bulgaria, the press centre of the Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC) announced.

Bulgarians with dual citizenship - Bulgarian and Turkish - as well as Turkish citizens living in this country can vote in the national referendum on constitutional amendments in Turkey as of today, BNR said.

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The German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble stated on Friday in an interview with German newspaper Rheinische Post that “I expect that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will remain in the Greek programme. It is not so important the percentage it will participate with. What matters is that it will do so”.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble expects the International Monetary Fund to remain on board with Greece's bailout program, he told a German newspaper in an interview published on Friday.

Greece is ranked 11th in the preferences of American travelers as a tourist destination, according to online platform “TripHobo”. The data was collected based on the choices of 700,000 users and revealed that American holidaymakers picked Greece as one of their most popular choices over the last six months. Canada took first spot, followed by Mexico, Italy and Britain.

Turkish flour mills have covered their short-term needs by purchasing several hundred thousand tons of wheat from EU and Black Sea countries, replacing Russian supplies blocked by a change to import rules, millers and traders said on April 5.

Humanitarian groups operating rescue ships off the coast of Libya picked up more than 700 migrants out of seven flimsy and overcrowded boats on April 5, the Italian Coast Guard said.

The IMF said the first review of the program in Bosnia, agreed in September 2016, would now be delayed "significantly", after the country's parliament failed to vote through changes to finance laws.