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Hundreds of migrants are feared to have died in a new migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said on April 18. 

Unconfirmed media reports earlier on the same day spoke of up to 400 victims from boats that capsized near the Egyptian coast as they attempted to sail to Europe. 

Neighboring Iran and Iraq are among the 14 countries with which Turkey has offered to sign readmission agreements in a move to enable Turkey to take back migrants rejected by the European Union more quickly.

The Bulgarian men's national football team climbed one position to occupy the 69th place in the latest monthly FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking released on Thursday.

With a total of 508 points, Bulgaria is between the teams of United Arab Emirates and South Africa.

At a meeting in Zagreb on Thursday, the police chiefs of Austria, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia agreed to organize the joint transport of Middle Eastern migrants from the Macedonia-Greece border all the way to Austria, where they will have the chance to stay or continue their journey to Germany.

The Bulgarian men's national football team dropped three positions in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World ranking released on Thursday.

At present, Bulgaria occupies 75th position with 494 points, being between the teams of South Africa and Zambia.

There is no change to the first eighteen positions in the ranking as only 43 matches have been played since the start of the year.

Turkey's Coast Guard rescued 91,611 would-be migrants who left their countries in a bid to reach northern and Western Europe in 2015, while 279 of them lost their lives in drowning incidents in the Aegean Sea, according to officials.

Increasing numbers of refugees and migrants are taking their chances aboard unseaworthy boats in a desperate bid to reach Europe. From the 972,551 arrivals by sea in 2015, more than 800,000 passed through Greece according to data of the UNCHR’s International Migration Organization.

According to the demographics, 25% of arrivals are children, 17% women and 58% men.

Only days after the adoption of a new Aviation Strategy for Europe,  the European Commission updated the EU Air Safety List, the list of airlines that are subject to an operating ban or operational restrictions within the European Union. This list is essential to guarantee the highest level of air safety for European citizens.

Bulgaria ranked 38th in the latest Doing Business ranking of the World Bank, dropping two positions from the place it occupied last year.

Doing Business 2016 ranks 189 economies on their ease of doing business, with a high ease of doing business ranking meaning that the regulatory environment is more conducive to starting and operating a local firm

Ten Eritrean national football players seeking asylum in Botswana should be deported, Botswana's security minister said on Oct. 15, a decision their lawyer said he would challenge in court.

The Eritreans refused to board their plane home on Oc.t 14, the latest in a series of defections by athletes from a country under investigation by the United Nations for human-rights violations.