News archive of July 2024

A yellow alert for high temperatures has been issued across most of Bulgaria, as indicated on the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology website. Only the regions of Sliven, Targovishte, Razgrad, Dobrich, Varna, Shumen, and Burgas are exempt from the extreme heat warning.

What everyone was afraid of and talked about behind closed doors ended up happening on Thursday night. No one could tell if it would come in the form of a stumble on the steps of Air Force One or a terrible interview.

Removal of Türkiye from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) "gray list" is expected to lead to more foreign investments in the tourism industry, Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy has said.

On June 28, FATF announced that it dropped Türkiye from its gray list of countries that require special scrutiny.

The daily natural gas production from the Sakarya field in the Black Sea has reached 5.5 million cubic meters, according to Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar.

The daily output in this field is expected to climb to 6 million cubic meters in August, Bayraktar said in an interview with private broadcaster Kanal 7.

The project for Terminal 3 at Sofia Airport includes plans for airbridges and the option for passengers to walk to and from the planes (the so-called WiWo - walk in, walk out). Milena Mihailova, Director of "Public Relations and Communications" at the concessionaire "SOF Connect," shared this information with TravelNews.

Two wildfires that burned near Athens since Sunday, destroying dozens of houses and vehicles had eased by Monday morning, officials said.

This photo shows Efe Talha Palabıyık, who ranked first in LGS after going through the devastating Feb. 6 earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye.

Some 352 students out of 992,906 examinees have scored the highest mark as the Ministry of Education has announced the results of the High School Entrance Exam (LGS) on June 28.

The deadline for linking the professional accounts of freelance professionals and entrepreneurs with the IRIS instant payments system has been extended until August 31.

Türkiye's application to register döner kebab as a traditional Turkish product with the European Union has sparked reactions from Germany.

The International Döner Kebab Federation in Istanbul has filed the application, aiming to both recognize döner as a Turkish product and protect its production standards.

Hungary takes over the EU's rotating presidency on Monday, promising to be an "honest broker" despite widespread concerns over what critics see as an authoritarian, Russia-friendly government.