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The TRT World Forum 2019 is to take place on Oct. 21-22 in the metropolis Istanbul, with the theme "Globalisation in Retreat: Risks and Opportunities".

The final result of the competition for 8-grade pupils of Sofia's Math High School and the Math High School of Varna is 3 silvers and one bronze, reports BNT. 

The silver winners are Atanas Dimitrov, Dejan Hadji-Manich and Blago Gunev. The bronze winner is Velislav Garkov.

The false bomb signals received today from airports and the media in Bulgaria are part of an international scheme. A similar series of messages were sent to other EU countries, the Interior Ministry said. This happened in the same order as in Bulgaria - first at the airports, then at the media.

BNT provided access to inspectors from Bulgaria's special services to the broadcaster's building for the necessary checks for explosive devices. Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security (SANS) and the Ministry of Interior are investigating the terrorist threat.

The Management Board of the State Fund Agriculture on July 19 chose new management of the Fund, Vassil Grudev, was elected as Executive Director after the previous one resigned for personal reasons earlier today, reports BNT.

Emil Koshlukov was elected as Director General of BNT. Three of the five members of the CEM voted for him.

Two of the CEM members voted for Sasho Yovkov.

Until now, Koshlukov has been a temporary acting Director General of BNT after the removal of Konstantin Kamenarov.

TV channels in Albania have declared their latest election campaign pricelists, with a number of them offering spots for paid appearances on editorial programmes, despite the electoral code explicitly banning broadcasters from running election propaganda as news content.

In just half an hour Plovdiv, the second largest city in Bulgaria, saw heavy flooding with most of its central boulevards and subways under water, reports BNT

Municipality cleaning groups and fire brigade crews are working hard to drain off hospitals and kindergartens.

RT is reporting this on Monday, citing analysts and politicians who said that the EU has now turned into a problem."

A number of media outlets in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia duly "reported" this development, some for the second time, since they also reported it three years ago.

Most of them quoted Radio Free Europe, RFE, saying that after the movement was registered on April 18, this had drawn negative reactions from the public and prompted the Montenegrin NGO Civil Alliance to request a ban.