News archive of May 2024

Acting Minister of Tourism Evtim Miloshev addressed Bulgaria's labor shortage, particularly acute in the tourism sector, highlighting the need for an estimated 27,000 workers for the upcoming summer season.

Authorities arrested four people and took down or disrupted more than 100 servers in the "largest ever" operation against botnets that deploy ransomware, Europol said Thursday.

Dubbed Operation Endgame, the sweep was initiated and led by France, Germany and the Netherlands, with a French official saying they wanted to act before this summer's Paris Olympics.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Thursday he had received Michael Roth, head of the foreign affairs committee of the German Bundestag.

"A very open and difficult discussion with Michael Roth," Vucic wrote in an Instagram post that also included photos from the meeting.

During their operational meeting, ministers from Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev's office unanimously supported the government's initiative to purchase Dimitar Talev's ancestral home in Prilep, North Macedonia. The Minister of Culture, Nayden Todorov, was tasked with promptly investigating the feasibility of the acquisition.

Ryan Gingeras joins Thanos Davelis to discuss Turkey's latest decision to teach the controversial Blue Homeland doctrine in Turkish schools, its wider ramifications, and explore the link between the rhetoric of conquest we've become used to hearing from Erdogan on the commemoration of the fall of Constantinople and policies like Blue Homeland. 

Latvian President Edgars Rinkevičs has proposed the construction of a "wall of drones" along NATO's border with Russia to counter potential migration-related provocations by Russian President Putin and other threats. In an exclusive interview with "The Times" during his visit to the UK, Rinkevičs outlined plans for this measure, emphasizing the need to protect NATO's eastern flank.

An architectural landmark hotel, designed by Panagiotis Zizilas, influenced by the architectural style of the hotels of the Cyan Coast, a vision of the eupatric benefactor Sotiris Anargyros

The prosecutor at Athens' Appeals Court proposed on Thursday the upholding of the guilty verdicts for the two men convicted of fatally beating Zak Kostopoulos, a gay rights activist, during an altercation in a jewelry shop in downtown Athens on September 21, 2018.

The Wall Street Journal, as reported by Reuters and BTA, suggests that Elon Musk might assume a political advisory role in Donald Trump's administration if the former president returns to the White House.

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.1109 dinars for one euro on Thursday, which is a slight change from Wednesday, the National Bank of Serbia said.

The dinar is steady against the euro m-o-m and up by 0.1 pct y-o-y and relative to the beginning of the year.