News archive of September 2018

The population served by the public water supply system represented 67.5pct of Romania's resident population in 2017, in the urban area 96.9pct of the population being connected to the public system, and in the rural area - 33.5pct, according to data released by the National Statistics Institute for AGERPRES on Friday.

A group of Croatian right-wingers, including popular nationalist singer Marko Perkovic, alias Thompson, are suing over a report accusing them of involvement in hate speech against Serbs.

Greece's immigration authorities plan on Friday to ferry another 400 asylum seekers from the squalid Moria camp on the island of Lesvos to more suitable facilities on the mainland.

The fresh transfer comes on top of the arrival of 107 refugees from Lesvos to Piraeus in the early hours of Friday after a sailing ban enforced amid strong winds on Thursday was lifted later in the day.

Authorities in Berlin say they're looking into allegations that a police officer passed information to Turkish intelligence about Turkish opposition supporters living in the German capital.

The esteemed Greek-American mechanical engineer George N. Hatsopoulos, an MIT senior lecturer emeritus, has passed away at the age of 91, it was announced earlier this week.

The leader of Turkey's opposition IYI (Good) Party Meral Akşener said on Sept. 27 it had not met other parties to discuss election alliance "for the moment."

Gotse Delchev. 12 wine-culinary routes are under development, Deputy Minister of Tourism Irena Georgieva said during the Fifth Annual Congress of the Bulgarian Union of Balneology and Spa Tourism, Focus News Agencyreports. "The idea is to popularise Bulgarian cuisine as it is something that attracts tourists," she said.

Sofia. We expect that Varna will be taken off the list of cities with high levels of fine particulate matter this year, Minister of Environment and Water Neno Dimov said during the presentation of the National Programme for Improvement of Ambient Air Quality 2018-2024, Focus News Agency reports.

Brnabic presented Serbia's new face and the results achieved so far, and as an unavoidable topic, mentioned the issue of Kosovo.

Raina Kabaivanska is coming to New Bulgarian University to teach a master class at Sofia Opera and Ballet through Sept. 29.

In her master class, Raina Kabaivanska will work on improving the vocal technique and acting interpretations of the participants in selected works.