Новости за 16.04.2018

Nasa is planning to launch a telescope that will ride on a SpaceX rocket designed to hunt for 20,000 new worlds, the Guardian writes.

Since the beginning of the year, the number of unemployed registered in the Labor Offices has decreased by more than 15 000 and in March they are 221 600. Compared to February, the registered unemployed are by 9011 people less and compared to a year earlier - with 40 171. This was announced by the press center of the Employment Agency.
 
The data of the Agency's administrative statistics show a steady downward trend in unemployment, and in March the registered level in the country continues... Читать дальше...

SAN SALVADOR: A Salvadoran journalist reported missing Sunday has been found dead on the side of a road, according to media reports.

A new stretch of large metropolitan boulevard will be temporarily closed due to the construction of the third subway beam. From April 20 to October 20 will be difficult to cross Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi Blvd. in the area of ​​the Military Academy, announced Sofia Municipality.

Two Christians were killed and three others were injured in a church in the southern Pakistani city of Kveta.

“My appeal is for fewer weapons and more dialogue”, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said at a lecture he gave today at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia taking a question of a student from the audience about the operation of USA, UK and France in Syria.

Paris Saint-Germain were crowned Ligue 1 champions on Sunday night as they beat title holders Monaco 7-1 at the Parc des Princes.

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Hungarians protested in Budapest on Saturday against what organizers said was an unfair election system that gave Prime Minister Viktor Orban a landslide victory at the polls after a “hate campaign” against immigrants.

20% of Bulgarians do not believe in bio products. The introduction of a "mountain product" quality term can reverse this negative trend, data from a national representative survey show, reported BGNews.

After months of intense pressure, lawmakers finally got their wish: They gave Mark Zuckerberg a public roasting. The CEO of Facebook testified this week in two congressional hearings, which lasted nearly ten hours over two days.

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova will participate in a high-level official event during the G20 tourism ministerial meeting in Buenos Aires, the ministry press service said.

The European Commission has added new requirements to the necessary documents for municipalities to fund WiFi4EU public internet projects. This was announced by the Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications (MTITC).

A young woman with a jeep has made a spectacular accident at a parking lot in Plovdiv. On Saturday night, the 21-year-old driver hit ten cars, then left the vehicle she was driving and escaped.

A Russian journalist who wrote of the deaths of Russian mercenaries in Syria died today in a hospital after he had fallen from the balcony of his apartment in Ekaterinburg on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.

A mild earthquake was registered in Sliven, said Slajana Kaneva, Head of the Public Order, Crisis Management and Mobile Mobilization Training Department in Sliven Municipality, BTA.
 
According to data from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the earthquake with magnitude 2.8 on the Richter was registered at about 20:00 last night.
 
The epicenter is 240 km east of the capital.
 
The earthquake is not felt and there is no evidence of damage.

The International Packaging and Paper Production Group Mondigroup intends to invest over EUR 600 million in the construction of a new plant in Bulgaria. This was made clear by a meeting of Deputy Economy Minister Lachezar Borisov and Executive Director of Bulgarian Investment Agency (BIA) Stamen Yanev with Technical Director of Mondi Christian Skilich, reports money.bg. 

A minibus carrying children crashed in the Veliko Tarnovo area last night, Darik radio reported.

Today marks 139 years since the adoption of the Tarnovo Constitution. On April 16 1879 the Constituent Assembly in the city Veliko Tarnovo, Central Northern Bulgaria, adopted the first basic law of the Principality of Bulgaria formed after the country’s liberation from Turkish rule in 1878, quoted by BNR.

Bulgaria’s Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova told BNT  that she expected a good summer tourist season this year, predicting a growth of tourists between 5% and 10%. She noted that the number of tourists from Russia is expected to remain the same as last year, as the geopolitical situation has an impact on the flow of tourists.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov are on a one-day visit to Pristina, reports Segabg.

The foreign ministers of Belgium and Germany, Didier Reynders and Heiko Maas respectively, stressed on Friday the importance of finding a political situation to the Syrian conflict and avoiding an escalation, Brussels Times reported.

Reynders was particularly cautious when asked about the possibility of strikes against the Syrian regime, preferring to abstain from commenting on an event that has not yet occurred or may not happen.

“We should wait. We should certainly avoid a military escalation. Читать дальше...

Today there will be substantial cloudiness and in the afternoon it will rain in some areas of Western Bulgaria. In the night to Tuesday, it will also rain in the country’s central regions.

There will be light to moderate wind from southeast. The maximum temperatures will range between 19°C and 24°C, about 11-13°C on the Black Sea coast,  the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology told Focus News Agency.