News archive of July 2015

Discovery Communications is set to build a strategic partnership with Turkey?s Do?u? Media Group and buy a television frequency, CNBC-e, from the group, the company said July 30.

Britain has denied Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei a six-month visa, he cited an embassy official as saying July 30, restricting him to a three-week trip on the grounds he did not declare a criminal conviction in his application.

The police have found and interviewed a persons suspected of attacking Dajana Pospis in Novi Sad on Tuesday, the N1 broadcaster is reporting.

Dajana Pospis, who was previously a man called Dolf Pospis, is undergoing sex change medical procedures. Pospis is a former member of the banned neo-Nazi group Nacionalni Stroj.

An explosion outside a police station in Macedonia's capital Skopje has damaged three cars parked nearby, MIA news agency reported on Thursday.

There were no reports of injuries from the blast that occurred overnight near a police station at Skopje's Aerodrom neighbourhood. 

A female badger was recovering at a Polish animal shelter on July 29, two days after the party animal was found passed out on a beach from having too much to drink.

The main aim of Turkey's recent military operations in northern Syria and Iraq is to prevent Kurdish territorial unity and not to combat Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition HDP said on July 30. 

This year's excavation works have begun in the ancient site of Myra and the Andriake Port situated in Demre district of Turkey's southern resort province of Antalya. 

Six of the most important ancient sites of the Lycian Union lie in this area, where excavations kicked off in 2009. 

Plane wreckage found on an Indian Ocean island is "very likely to be from a Boeing 777", Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on July 30, as speculation mounted that it could be debris from missing flight MH370.

Vasl Velev, Chair of the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association (BICA), has argued that electricity tariffs should remain unchanged in the next pricing period.

In a Thursday interview for TV7, Velev claimed that there was no obstacle, be it of legal or economic nature, for Bulgaria's Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (KEVR) to keep electricity prices unchanged.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has criticized employers' organizations over their demand that a hike of electricity prices for industrial consumers be postponed.

Power prices for industries are set to rise by 15-20% from August, and the national energy regulator KEVR is to officially confirm the move on Friday, July 31.