Новости за 16.08.2022

A young serviceman shot his girlfriend, then committed suicide, BNT reported. The tragedy took place in the Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora. According to BNT, the girl's mother reported this morning that she has not been able to contact her daughter for several hours....

The government of the Republic of North Macedonia adopted measures to save electricity up to 15 percent. Recommendations are provided for households and companies, and specific obligations are introduced for state institutions, which must be complied with, otherwise sanctions will follow, MIA reported. As the Minister of Economy Kreshnik Bekteshi announced on Tuesday, the measures come into force on September 1 this year and will be valid until March 31, 2023: "The goal is to reduce consumption... Читать дальше...

A car crashed and subsequently caught fire on the "Trakia" highway in Bulgaria. One person died in the accident, the Ministry of the Interior stated. Due to the accident, traffic on the highway was temporarily stopped at km 264....

Mandatory isolation for those sick with COVID-19 is officially reduced from 10 to 7 days. This was stated at a briefing before the Ministry of Health by Professor Angel Kunchev - Chief State Health Inspector. He specified that the quarantine of contact persons is reduced from 7 to 5 days, and persons who are within 3 months of their last immunization - with a full or booster dose, as well as those who have fallen ill within this period, will not have to be quarantined. ...

Finland will reduce the number of visas issued to Russians to 10% of the current level, Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said on Tuesday. He said that the Finnish Foreign Ministry will reduce the number of visa application interviews from September 1, which will in effect lead to fewer visas being issued to Russian citizens. Instead, Helsinki will introduce a "national humanitarian visa" that will be granted to those fleeing Russia, journalists and human rights activists....

Bulgarian goat's milk curd won the highest distinction at the most authoritative world taste awards, the Great Taste Awards. The curd (cottage cheese) made by the Bulgarian company “Harmonica” was awarded three stars by the international experts, and two more products with the Bulgarian brand - lemonade and pretzel sticks with spelt - were awarded one star each. “Harmonica” is among the winners of the prestigious awards for the sixth year in a row, but for the first time it has received the highest recognition - three stars. Читать дальше...

A "Machine Voting Simulator" is now available on the website of the Central Electoral Commission in and outside Bulgaria. The simulator is only available in Bulgarian but you can try and test it, the process is very simple: 1....

The annual inflation for the month of July jumped 17%, and after the first seven months of the year, it is over 11%, with the biggest increase recorded in electricity, gas and fuel bills. In July 2022, the monthly inflation was 1.1% compared to the previous month, and the annual inflation for July 2022 compared to July 2021 was 17....

The main emphasis in the work of the Acting Minister of Ecology, Rositsa Karamfilova, will be the work on the criminal procedures that have been initiated by Europe against Bulgaria, she told bTV. Currently, there are 16 in total, but the focus will be on three of them. The issue of completing the reclamation of 8 landfills that are no longer in use must be resolved most urgently....

Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange filed a lawsuit Monday against the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo, alleging it recorded their conversations and copied data from their phones and computers. The lawyers, along with two journalists joining the case, are American and claim the CIA violated their constitutional protections in confidential conversations with Assange. They said the CIA worked with a security firm hired by the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Assange was living at the time... Читать дальше...

“The virus type and mutation are different compared to previous waves. That is why an expert council takes adequate measures week by week, in order for them to not apply for a whole month.” ...

China is upping the ante against Taiwan amid another US congressional delegation visit to the self-governed island. China's military said it conducted combat alert patrols and military drills in the waters and airspace around Taiwan on Monday, a day after the arrival of a US congressional delegation to Taipei, reported CNN. A fresh delegation of US lawmakers is visiting Taiwan, less than two weeks after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the self-ruled island angered China and set off large-scale military drills in the Taiwan Strait. Читать дальше...

By November 15, the world's population will reach 8 billion people, the UN Population Fund has confirmed. Earlier, on August 14, the Countrymetrics.info portal stated that the population of planet Earth has officially reached 8 billion people and continues to increase. ...

The new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria for the last 24 hours are 1864, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal. 8,845 tests were performed, which means that the proportion of positive results is 21.07 percent. ...

The fire near Lyubimets and Harmanli has been completely contained, Haskovo regional governor Minko Angelov told the Bulgarian National Radio. Because of the big fire, a partial state of emergency was declared there yesterday. The control of the fire took place after the intervention of heavy mechanization from "Mini Marica Iztok", which prevented the "creeping" of the fire. ...