Danube

A Hungarian icebreaker has been sent to Serbia in a bid to reopen the Danube to navigation.

Almost the entire length of the river in this country has been frozen.

Last week's extremely cold weather in Serbia has resulted in the freezing of much of the Danube's surface.

In Belgrade's municipality of Zemun, the huge river now resembles a mass of ice.

Shipping in the Bulgarian section of the Danube has been prohibited, announced Captain Toni Todorov, director of river Supervision - Lom with the Marine Administration.

The order entered into force on Tuesday at 12:00 hrs.

Captain Todorov announced that all ships passing at the moment through the Bulgarian section must dock at the nearest port.

110 kilogrammes of marijuana have been discovered during an inspection in the area of Danube Bridge 2 Vidin-Kalafat via the joint efforts of Bulgarian and Romanian customs and police authorities.

The drug was hidden in a vehicle leaving the country, driven by a 26-year old Bulgarian citizen, announced the Customs Agency.

BELGRADE - The exhibition "The Danube - Artist, Traveler and Witness", showcasing fortifications situated on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, will open in the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, the Belgrade Fortress public enterprise has announced.

The Danube Bridge between Bulgaria and Romania has been closed for two hours.

The Bulgarian Specialised Prosecutor's Office and the Romanian Prosecutor's Office are carrying out an inspection, reported BGNES.

Border police are being checked for bribes on both the Bulgarian and the Romanian side.

The inspection is ongoing.

Novinite is republishing another story by our reader Leon de Leeuw about his visit to city of Vidin in Northwestern Bulgaria.

You can read the other stories about his travels that we have reprinted here.

Road haulage workers are protesting on Monday morning against what they describe as "inhumane conditions" conditions of waiting for hours to cross out of the country.

Truck drivers argue they have recently be waiting for 40 to 50 hours to cross.

A 16-year-old girl was rescued from the Danube River in Belgrade on Friday after she attempted to commit suicide by jumping off the Pancevo Bridge.

The teenager was taken to the Emergency Center with head injuries.

Due to technical testing of the Danube bridge on the Romanian side, the facility will not operate between 7:25 hrs and 12:20 hrs in the period October 21-23, reported the Road Infrastructure Agency.

Traffic on the bridge will be halted for the carrying out of tests of the load on the road part of the bridge after the extensive renovation works implemented there.