Danube

Six pelicans have been found dead at the Srebarna nature reserve in northeastern Bulgaria on Monday, BTA news agency reported.

The cause of the death wasn't immediately known.

The find takes to 27 the dead bodies of pelicans found in the nature reserve, a World Heritage Site located on a freshwater lake of 900 hectares on the border with Romania.

BELGRADE - The Road Corridor X section through Serbia will be completed by the end of next year, State Secretary with the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Miodrag Poledica said at the opening of a conference titled "Transport and Logistics of South East Europe and Danube Region - TIL 2015" on Thursday.

A 38-year-old man was crushed to death by a 40-tonne machine in a unit of the former heavy machine production plant in the Danube city of Ruse.

The incident happened at the end of the workday on Monday, according to reports of local police, as cited by the Bulgarian National Television.

The team of emergency doctors could do nothing but register the death.

Romania aims to lure some 1 billion in European funds to develop infrastructure and tourism in the Danube Delta by 2020, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Thursday.

The cash - if it comes - will go on "infrastructure development, preserving biodiversity and on tourism development in the Danube Delta," Ponta said at the opening of Romania's Tourism Fair.

Employees of the Ruse-based arms and ammunition manufacturer Dunarit are set to stage a protest on Friday over the government's decision to scrap the plant's license over a "threat to national security."

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, in the opening of the Romanian Tourism Fair on Thursday, said that the European Union's 2014 - 2020 financial allotment for Romania provides one billion euro funds for the Danube Delta area.

Photo credit: (c) Grigore POPESCU / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Bulgaria and Romania are to attract tourists from the more distant Asian countries through the development of a common tourist product.

This was announced by Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova on Tuesday, BGNES news agency reports.

Angelkova also revealed that the two countries plan to open a joint tourist office until the end of the year.

The locally produced fig brandy made the folks of the Danube riverside township of Svinita - Mehedinti County famous 'far and wide'.

Photo credit: (c) Gil PIETRAR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

There water of the Danube River has not been affected by any pollution. The announcement was made by the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Waters on Friday.

The cause for the suspicion that the water might be affected came after a transport vehicle with 850 tons of chemical fertilizers on board sank on February 11.

A barge carrying 850 tonnes of fertilisers on board sank in the Romanian port of Moldova Veche on Wednesday, while conducting manoeuvres.

The Romanian port lies approximately 200 kilometres upstream from the beginning of the Bulgarian section of the Danube and 250 kilometres from the town of Vidin.