Новости за 16.03.2018

Education Minister Krasimir Valchev expects half of the students from the first to the seventh grade to have lockers in the schools by autumn. This was made clear by his commentary on the sidelines of parliament. MES allocates BGN 2.9 million for the provision of school lockers in which students hold textbooks and other things for the purpose of lightening the backpacks.
 
"Students from grades 1 to 7 are approximately 450,000, and we estimate that between 150,000 and 200,000 lockers will be purchased with the funds for this year. Читать дальше...

Electric pillar has fallen on two children - brother and sister while playing in one of the neighborhood public gardens in Pazardzhik. The incident happened yesterday around 5 pm
 
The metal facility surprisingly fell on the children who were not badly injured. It saved them that the 10-year-old girl heard the creaking of a ladder before it collapsed and fell to the ground.
 
The child raised his hands and tried to save his brother, but only managed to soften the blow. The sister has bruises and flushing on the hands... Читать дальше...

Miami (AFP) - The world's leading brands of bottled water are contaminated with tiny plastic particles that are likely seeping in during the packaging process, according to a major study across nine countries published Wednesday.

Triple murder in Canada. The victims are Bulgarian woman and her two children.
 
Krassimira Peychinovsky was found dead in her home in Ontario, about an hour from Toronto. Her 13-year-old daughter and her 15-year-old son were also killed. The woman also had another daughter who was not at home because she was attending a driving lesson.
 
The main suspect is Cory Fen, the boyfriend of Krasimira, who is 29 years old. She was separated with the father of the children who is a Macedonian, NOVA said. Читать дальше...

A young family was found dead in their home in a block of flats in Plovdiv, the Ministry of Interior announced.

Migrants clashed with security forces in central Madrid on Thursday following the death of a Senegalese man whom they said was chased through the streets by police.

Donald Trump Jr. and his wife Vanessa Trump are separating, they announced in a joint statement Thursday.

Since mid-February, there has been serious interest in the Belene NPP project from China's largest state-owned nuclear power company. This is what Energy Minister Temenujka Petkova said during today's parliamentary oversight, BNT reported.

A 75-year-old man fell in a elevator shaft from the 4th floor of a block in the quarter of the Holy Trinity, the BNT reported. The signal was filed at 12.04 am for Emergency Assistance. The ambulance arrived in 6 minutes and took the victim to the emergency room of Pirogov. The state of the victim is stable at the moment. He has a broken leg and a fracture of the head.

The government of Gibraltar warned that it could deprive the rights and protection of Spanish and other European citizens on the territory if Madrid were to use its veto and exclude Gibraltar from the Brexit agreement, the Guardian said.

North Korea's foreign minister arrived in Sweden for talks on Thursday, with a two-day visit, according to FOCUS News Agency.
Minister Ri Yong-ho landed at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm before boarding a diplomatic car without giving any statements to the media.

We expect the sum of the winter tourist season in Bulgaria to be 1.2 million foreign tourists entering Bulgaria. There was a drop in ski tourism in early January due to the warm weather. Ski tourists will be about 190 thousand, with more than half of them in Bansko. This was pointed out by Rumen Draganov from the Institute for Tourism Analysis and Assessments in front of Bloomberg TV Bulgaria.

UN officials in Geneva today are on strike against cutting their salaries, BNT reports. Some 9500 people work at the UN in Geneva, and it is still unclear how many of them will be involved in the strike action, but the strike will break the work of the institution. The session of the UN Human Rights Council was canceled.

The monument of Buzludja is among the seven most endangered cultural and historical sites in Europe, BNR reports. This was reported by the largest European non-governmental organization for the preservation of the cultural heritage "Europe Nostra", which has more than 250 associations from 47 countries.

Bulgaria is again the country with the highest mortality rate across the European Union. This is according to  the European Statistical Office. According to data for 2015, the mortality rate in Bulgaria was 1660 per 100 000 people. In the EU, the average was 1036 deaths per 100,000.

Robbery was executed early this morning at a casino in Sofia, BNR reported.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman threatens a new arms race in the Middle East, the British Times reported, quoted by the Bulgarian National Radio.

EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel and Minister of Justice Tsetska Tsacheva will participate in an international conference on "Secure Future for Women - A Safe Future for All", BNR

Germany continues to sell weapons for millions of euros to Turkey in the context of a controversial Ankara operation against Kurdish militias in northern Syria, DPA reported.

More than 40 people were injured in a collision of two trams in Cologne on Thursday night, Lokal said. According to the police, one of the drivers was drunk and this caused the crash.

A pedestrian walkway that was still under construction collapsed onto a busy highway in Miami on Thursday, killing at least four people.

Bulgaria is in preparation for a unique conference, which places the country among the first in the world. The two-day information technology forum, which will take place in a few days attracts the interest of the world's largest in the IT industry. The idea of this conference comes from the Indian-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce.

A US military helicopter has crashed on the Iraq-Syria border while carrying seven people on board, The Daily Express reported.
The helicopter is believed to have crashed in the Anbar region of Iraq.

According to CNN, the helicopter was carrying seven personnel.

The helicopter was not believed to be on a military mission at the time of the crash.

It is unclear how seriously injured the personnel are

Today, the increase in the cloud that started from the west will gradually cover the whole country. Some places in Western Bulgaria will see light rain. This is the weather forecast of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, quoted by FOCUS News Agency.

In the afternoon, in Eastern Bulgaria there will be moderate to strong wind from the southwest. The maximum temperatures will be between 14°C and 19°C, along the Black Sea coast between 11°C and 17°C, in Sofia around 15°C.

It... Читать дальше...

 U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused Iran on Thursday of “mucking around” in Iraq’s May parliamentary election, in which Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is seeking another term after a successful, U.S.-backed war against Islamic State militants, Reuters reported.

The ballot will decide Iraq’s leader for the next four years, when Baghdad will be faced with rebuilding cities and towns seized from Islamic State, preventing the militants’ return and addressing the sectarian and economic divisions that fueled the conflict. Читать дальше...