News archive of December 2018

Turkey is entitled for 2019 World Cup in China following the results Dec. 2 cin the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 European Qualifiers.

Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy, and priests who are gay should be celibate or leave rather than lead a double life, Pope Francis said in a new book.

"Four countries fund the manifestations of radical Islamism in Bulgaria. Target is the Roma population, ghettos in particular. " Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Krasimir Karakachanov said during his visit to Rousse. The recent case, with a Bulgarian citizen arrested and convicted in Austria, is proof of this in his view.

The decision to cancel the change of time in the EU is unlikely to take place before 2021, Austrian Transport Minister Norbert Hofer said, quoted by DPA.

The start date, two years later than the one proposed by the European Commission in September, will give more time to member states to prepare, said Hofer, whose country currently holds the EU presidency.

The latest developments in economic co-operation between Romania and Norway is encouraging, with the total volume of trade between the two countries having jumped more than 150 percent this year to over 420 million euro, Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu said on Monday.

An address to the French National Assembly on Tuesday by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was canceled to "give priority" to a hearing on the "Yellow Jacket" protests that have swept across France in recent weeks, writes Politico. 

A play prepared by the Directorate General of State Theaters has been staged for a group of children staying in a prison with their mothers in the western province of İzmir as part of a project conducted between the Justice Ministry and Culture Ministry.

The big, luxurious airplane used to ferry Mexico's former president around the globe is about to fly away permanently in one of the first moves by the new president to rid the country of what he has derided as a towering symbol of excess.

The Ministry of Education and Science will propose a national innovation promotion programme that will be open to all schools, Minister Krasimir Valchev said to reporters at the first National Innovation Forum, Focus News Agency reports.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos referred on Monday to broadening international support for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece during a visit to the capital's Acropolis Museum which was built to house the sculptures, currently in the British Museum.