News archive of October 2014

Turkey’s top national security body has publicly documented the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, referred to by government officials as the “parallel state,” as one of the leading threats against the country’s national security.

The Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) candidate for Romania's president, Klaus Iohannis, on Thursday evening said in a TV talk show, that there were premises for a possible fraud in the November 2 presidential elections and that could only be done by those holding power.

Thousands have signed an online petition denouncing reported comments by an HSBC Holdings  board member in which she likened Hong Kong protesters' demands for democracy to the emancipation of slaves.
   

Bulgarian lawmakers are discussing amendments to the 2014 budget and two documents about the situation at Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB) on Friday.

Interim Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki submitted earlier this week a proposal to the newly-convened Parliament to update the State Budget of the Republic of Bulgaria Act.

Austrian energy concern Verbund is selling its wind park at Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, the concern said in a statement Thursday.

A subsidiary of the Bulgarian financial company called Inovent Holding AD is to purchase the wind turbines.

The park's turbines have a total power of about 16 MW, producing electricity for 14 000 households.

A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus went for a bike ride on Oct. 30, defying Maine's order that she be quarantined in her home and setting up a legal collision with Governor Paul LePage.
   

Moscow and Kiev on Oct. 30 clinched a deal that will guarantee that Russian gas exports flow into Ukraine and beyond to the European Union throughout the winter despite their intense rivalry over the fighting in eastern Ukraine.

The pair formed by Romanian tennis player Horia Tecau and Dutch player Jean-Julien Rojer has qualified, on Thursday, for the semifinals of the doubles' event of the 2,884,675-dollar Paris-Bercy tournament (ATP World Tour Masters 1000), thanks to the victory by 5-7, 6-1, 10-6 against pair formed by Eric Butorac (USA)/Raven Klaasen (South Africa).

Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev is to hold consultations with the left-wing ABV and ultra-nationalist Ataka on Friday.

Under Bulgaria's Constitution, presidential consultations with all parliamentary parties are a prerequisite for handing to a Prime Minister candidate from the biggest party the mandate to form a government.

As soon as Ukraine transfers the first chunk of debt worth USD 1.4 B, Russia will renew gas deliveries, Economy Minister Alexander Novak says.

At a meeting held in Brussels with officials from the outgoing EU Commission, Russia and Ukraine, the two countries' ministers signed an agreement setting the final price of supplies, set to gradually decrease over the next year.