News archive of March 2014

Authorities in Mexico announced they had rescued 370 migrant children who had apparently been abandoned by traffickers paid to take them to the United States.

Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement on Saturday that the children had been found in the period March 17-24 on the territory of 14 Mexican states.

Over 50 million eligible voters can go to the polls in Turkey's local elections on Sunday.

According to the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey, a total of 52 695 831 Turkish citizens are entitled to cast their ballots at 194 310 polling stations.

Independent candidate Andrej Kiska won the presidential elections in Slovakia.

Kiska beat current Prime Minister Robert Fico in the second round of voting by 59.4% to 40.6%, according to reports of the local statistics office. The turnout was 50.5%, according  to Bloomberg.

At 3 am on March 30, Bulgarians moved clocks one hour forward to 4 am, switching to Daylight Savings Time.

Clocks are advanced by one hour in spring and moved back in autumn, to make the most of seasonal daylight.

DST is observed in all of the countries of Europe except Iceland, Belarus, and Russia.

JAGODINA – Italy’s company Aunde opened a factory for the production of automobile seats and technical textiles for the automotive industry in Jagodina on Saturday.

THE HAGUE - Serbia wants the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to declare the Croatian armed forces’ 1995 Operation Storm a genocide against the Serbian people and to find Croatia guilty of violating the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

The Albanian Foreign Ministry expressed concern over the weekend at the death of a 42-year-old Albanian inmate of a prison in Nigrita, northern Greece, whose battered body was found in his cell just a few days after the convict stabbed a prison officer to death.

After an open-ended strike by pharmacists resulted in huge lines of Greeks seeking medicines, the union representing the sector decided over the weekend to open more duty pharmacies to tackle the fallout of its own industrial action.

The government is bracing for a crucial week, with eurozone finance ministers expected to discuss the release of further rescue loans to Greece at an informal summit in Athens starting on Tuesday.

By Tasoula Karaiskaki