Новости за 20.08.2022

This school year, such strict restrictions and preliminary examination of children with salivary tests for COVID-19 will not be imposed, the chief state health inspector Angel Kunchev announced on bTV. Instructions are currently being prepared for both the October 2 election in the context of COVID-19 and the new school year. When a case of COVID-19 occurs in a school, the response will be in a much smaller circle of people, and only the class in which there is a sick student will move to distance... Читать дальше...

US troops within the framework of NATO are deployed on the main roads in the northern part of Kosovo after the failure of negotiations in Brussels, reports Reuters. The European Union's foreign policy and security chief, Josep Borrell, said on Thursday after a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo President Albin Kurti in Brussels that "unfortunately no agreement has been reached, but this is not the end of the story." ...

By 2040, over 44 countries will face severe water scarcity. In general, the Mediterranean countries belong to the regions of the planet with the highest risk of drought and water scarcity. Today, Europe is already facing the longest period of drought in the last 500 years....

One thousand and forty-one new cases of coronavirus were registered in the last 24 hours in Bulgaria. 12 confirmed infected have died, according to data from the Unified Information Portal. The figures are slightly higher than a week ago....

The price of gas on the spot market in Europe rose to 261 euros per megawatt hour after Gazprom announced that it would temporarily stop the supply of blue fuel through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Last night, Gazprom announced that the only working compressor unit at the initial compressor station of the Nord Stream gas pipeline - the Portovaya compressor station - will be shut down from August 31 to September 2 for three days for maintenance and preventive upkeep. This puts a number of European countries... Читать дальше...

The Parliament of Montenegro voted a vote of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic, reported AFP. The agency notes that this opens the way for new political upheavals in the small Balkan state. The previous coalition government was also voted out in February. ...

Bulgarians celebrate 145 years of the Shipka epic. The epic battles were fought at the highest points of the Shipchen Pass - St. Nicholas Peak (today Stoletov Peak), Shipka Peak and Orlovo Gnezdo from August 21 to 23, 1877 between Suleiman Pasha's troops and the Russian-Bulgarian detachment of Gen....

“We accepted Cheniere’s offer for one vessel with gas for the month of October, for the month of November and December we could not find slots. The offer has been adjusted for delivery of one tanker in October to Turkey.” ...