Focus agency

The members of Greece's new government were sworn in on Tuesday in a ceremony at the Presidential Mansion in Athens that was presided over by President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

Nurturing 'pub talk'

The popularity of Robert Fico, the former prime minister and chair of the social democratic Smer party who is currently an opposition MP, has received a boost lately. While only 19 per cent of voters trusted him in November 2020, that figure had risen to 29 per cent by September, according to a poll by Focus.

The loss of sense of smell is forecast for a mild course of the novel coronavirus infection, Prof. Todor Kantardzhiev, Director of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, said as quoted by Focus Agency.

He explained that usually COVID infection develops more slowly and its incubation period is longer.

One man was injured a car accident between a car and an ambulance on the Hemus highway in the direction of Varna.

This was announced by the FOCUS Agency from the SDVR.

The road accident occurred at 12:40 am at the 12th-13th km on the motorway.

The victim was transported in a hospital for an examination.

A person was hit by a train in the Iskar Gorge near the Lakatnik station, the BDZ has confirmed to Focus Agency. The accident occurred at about 7.45 this morning between Eliseyna and Lakatnik. The train was travelling from Lom to Sofia. Trains in the area have been halted until the on-site investigation concludes.

The conditions for tourism on the mountains are bad, there is fog in many places, it is snowing and the wind is getting stronger. This is what the Mountain Rescue Service to the Bulgarian Red Cross told Focus Agency. In all mountains there are great amounts of new snow and avalanche danger.

Bulgarian truck drivers will take to the streets in Brussels next week to voice their dismay about the so-called Mobility Package - a collection of three initiatives concerning the governance of commercial road transport in the European Union - which they say could leave them jobless.

A group of 10 Ukrainian soldiers who received injuries during the fighting in eastern Ukraine was sent to Bulgaria for rehabilitation, the local information portal Novoye tempora reported, quoted by Focus Agency.

The conditions for hiking in the lower parts of the mountains are good. This was announced by the Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC) FOCUS Agency from the Mountain Rescue Service (MSF). There are good conditions for hiking in the region of Stara Planina.

The incident occurred near Bergdorf Bondo, on the border between Italy and Switzerland

Eight people are missing after a landslide in Switzerland, according to the regional newspaper "Die Basler Zeitung", quoted by the Focus Agency.