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A general strike has led to the shutting of all of Israel’s embassies worldwide, a notice on the website of the Israeli foreign ministry on March 23 2014 said. As […]
With the election of the Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Bishop Naum, as the new Metropolitan of Rousse – an office ma ...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected accusations of intolerance following his decision to ban Twitter. At a campaign rally in Ista ...
Ukrainian protesters are gathered in Kyiv’s Independence Square calling for unity, a day after Russian forces seized the last major Ukrainian mi ...
With chants of “keep your filthy hands off Karadere”, well more than 1000 protesters marched in Sofia on March 23 in the latest in a series of protests against a […]
The ruling centre-right Fidesz party has a good chance of winning a second consecutive two-thirds majority at the parliamentary election on 6 April, according to the leaders of the major […]
Russian soldiers and militiamen stormed a Ukrainian air force base in Crimea on Saturday, firing shots and smashing through gates and walls with armored vehicles, ending a lengthy standoff with […]
A Syrian fighter jet was shot down at the border with Turkey, over the border crossing of Kasab, between the Turkish Hatay and Latakia, where Syrian armed forces are fighting […]
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, on March 23 2014 elected Bishop Naum of Stob as the new Metropolitan of Rousse, to succeed Neofit who became the […]
