Disaster

A Code Red warning is in force on Saturday for a number of regions of Eastern Bulgaria, the weather department with the Bulgarian Academy of Science has said.

Passenger traffic in Greek ports fell by half a percentage point in the fourth quarter of 2014, compared with the same period in 2013, said the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) on Friday. Domestic passenger traffic totaled 6,114,935 in the fourth quarter of 2014, falling from 6,023,531 in 2014, a decline of 1.5%.

Representatives of Greece’s creditors are meeting with Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Economy Minister George Stathakis as part of continued negotiations on  the country’s third bailout program. IMF Representative Delia Velculescu was the first to arrive for breakfast at the Athens Hilton at around 8 a.m.

People took to the streets, with many of them rushing to hospitals, after a 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey?s Mediterranean Sea at 1:00 a.m. on July 30 off the Mersin bay and was felt in the southern provinces of Mersin, Adana, Hatay and Osmaniye, with no casualties reported.

Malaysia sent a team to determine whether the debris, which was recently found on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, is from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370).

The piece of wreckage, which measures two metres in length, washed up on the island late on Wednesday, the BBC reports.

Turkey expects to welcome more than 200 million air passengers by 2017, according to revised figures from the General Directorate of State Airports Authority (DHM?). 

A 4.3 on the Richter scale earthquake  has hit the western port city of Patras,, northwest Peloponnese, at 7.10 p.m. (17.10 GMT) on Sunday.

Patras is the 3rd largest city of Greece after the capital, Athens, and Thessaloniki. The epicenter was located approximately 48 kilometers south of the city. So far no damages have been reported.

The European Parliament on Tuesday approved the allocation of EUR 1.9 M in flood relief under the European Union Solidarity Fund.

Bulgaria was affected last year by flash floods which claimed more than a dozen lives and left hundreds of houses damaged or destroyed.

Mayor of Gracanica Vladeta Kostic strongly condemned the latest attacks on Serb families in Kisnica near Gracanica, in the vicinity of Pristina.

The attacks on Serbs in Kisnica were one of the main topics at last week's meeting of Gracanica's Safety Committee, reads a statement issued by the information service of the Municipality of Gracanica on Monday.

15 people were killed in western Turkey after a fatal accident between two trucks today. One of the trucks was varying workers. Besides the fatalities 2 more people were injured when the two trucks collided head on.