Новости за 23.03.2018

After the astronomical spring came days ago, next week it will also delight us in improving the weather, it is clear from the mid-term forecast based on computer models, reports Darik. 

The National Football Team starts 2018 today from 19:00 with friendly match against Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Ludogorets Arena in Razgrad. The duel will start the new cycle for the "lions" who will try to fight for Euro 2020. The chances of a qualiffication for a big forum being for the first time since 2004 are serious because of the changed format of qualifications.

BSP leader Kornelia Ninova and members of the party leadership met with representatives of the Bulgarian Cultural Center in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. 

Police have shot dead a gunman who killed two people and injured three others in a hostage-taking at a supermarket in the town of Trèbes, near Carcassonne in southern France, reported the Guardian. 

Head of State Roumen Radev responded to the invitation by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to hold a personal meeting, the head of state's presidential secretariat announced.

She’s been chancellor of Germany for 12 years, reduced to a caretaker for the past six months until she could form a new government. Today (March 21), Angela Merkel gave the first speech of her latest term to parliament, addressing the controversial topic of migrants and their place in German society.

The Minister of Regional Development and Public Works, Nikolay Nankov, said during parliamentary scrutiny that heavy goods vehicles would pay a toll tax on about 55% of the roads in the country.

On March 25 Bulgaria switches back to daylight saving time. 

Clocks will be adjusted one hour forward at 3 am sharp on Sunday morning. Thus, people will sleep one hour less tonight. According to psychologists, one needs a fortnight to adapt to the new rhythm. 

Daylight saving time is the practice of advancing the clocks during the summer months by one hour so that evening daylight lasts an hour longe

Due to the sharp temperature change in recent days there is an increase of heart attacks and strokes reported in the Emergency Relief in Sofia.

The Czech Republic will “probably” kick out Russian diplomats, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Friday after the European Union backed Britain in blaming the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England on Moscow, according to Reuters. 

Grigor Dimitrov will close the Friday program in Miami. World number 4 will face 22-year-old Maximilian Marterer tonight not before 23 pm Bulgarian time.

A shot of cognac has sold in the UK for £10,014, setting a new world record.

Further € 109 million will be invested under the Interreg V-A Romania-Bulgaria 2014-2020 Programme in the border region between the two countries. This became clear at the tenth meeting of the European Cross-Border Programme Monitoring Committee, which took place in Bulgaria’s old capital Veliko Turnovo on 22nd of March. It was co-chaired by Bulgaria’s Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Denitsa Nikolova. A total of 74 new projects were approved between partners from the two countries within the third call for proposals.

China's Tiangong-1 space lab will likely fall to Earth between March 30 and April 2, according to the latest prediction by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany.

There is no effective sanction mechanism for those who have committed violations, said Sotir Tsatsarov. He noted that such inspection of the pedestrian crossings was carried out for the first time. According to him, the results show defects and serious violations of the legislation. The Chief Prosecutor added that work in the area of prevention needs to be critically enhanced, as well as control activities and sanctions.

A state of emergency has been declared in the municipality of Vidin due to heaped-up snow and icy conditions, Mayor Ognyan Tsenkov said at a meeting on the situation in the area.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias arrived in Skopje on Thursday evening for a landmark visit as talks between the two sides appear to be edging toward a resolution on the longstanding “Macedonia” name dispute, Ekathimerini writes.

Kotzias, who touched down at Skopje International Airport at around 7 p.m. – on what was the first direct flight to Skopje in 12 years – was scheduled to have dinner with his counterpart Nikola Dimitrov ahead of talks today with him and other officials of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Читать дальше...

A suspected ISIS gunman has killed a shop worker after taking hostages at a French supermarket following a drive-by shooting that injured an off-duty officer. 

At least 34 people, including 17 children, were killed in an air strike in the town of Harem in the northwest Syrian province of Idlib today, the Syrian Human Rights Watch said.

Greekreporter.com - The weather split Greece into two halves on Thursday as the north experienced heavy snowfall, whereas a sandstorm and mini-heatwave hit the south and in particular the island of Crete.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is planning to apply tougher consumer laws to social media networks and email providers like Facebook (FB.O) and Google’s Gmail (GOOGL.O) as scrutiny of data protection grows in the wake of an outcry over Facebook’s handling of data

Colorful snow over Razgrad this morning between 6.00 and 7.00 puzzled the residents of the city.

A Florida cat has been reunited with its owner, 14 years after Hurricane Jeanne tore them apart.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A new nationalist party led by a self-styled intellectual won two seats in Amsterdam in Dutch municipal elections seen as heralding the fragmentation of the country's far right.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria’s lower house of parliament voted on Thursday to scrap an impending ban on smoking in bars and restaurants, backing the coalition government despite opposition from health campaigners and opposition parties.