Новости за 10.04.2018

A suspicious package addressed to Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov was received at the Court of Justice in Sofia in the early afternoon, BNT reported. It was left at the service entrance of the Courthouse, from Alabin Street.

The police in Pernik detained a man on suspicion that he did not take sufficient care of his dogs, after 14 of them were found dead, the BNR reported.

Masazo Nonaka from Japan was recognised today as the world’s oldest man at the ripe old age of 112, as his family revealed his secret: sweets and hot baths. Nonaka, who was born on July 25, 1905 — just months before Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity — received a certificate from Guinness World Records at home on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido. The supercentenarian lives with his family, which manages a hot springs inn. “He needs a wheelchair to move but he is in good condition,” said Yuko Nonaka... Читать дальше...

An informal meeting of the EU Environment Ministers is held in the National Palace of Culture. In the first session of today's meeting, participants discussed opportunities to improve air quality.

In the first quarter of this year, 53 Chinese people have been the victims of various disasters. This was announced by the Ministry of Civil Administration of the Professional Regulation Commission - PRC.

Bulgaria and Romania are European leaders in the number of fatalities in road accidents in the EU, Brussels will introduce tighter road traffic measures.

53% of Bulgarians believe that global war is a real danger, and 62% of the population in the country supports the foreign policy of Boyko Borisov, writes Investor.bg, citing a study by Gallup International.

23 US organizations blame YouTube and its owner Google for collecting children's personal data and using them to target certain ads according to the interests of consumers, news agencies said. This is illegal under US law.

A domestic dog attacked a 6-year-old boy in Sofia.

The incident took place in the yard of the 121th High School in the ''Gotse Delchev'' district of Sofia. Rottweiler has bitten the child. It was taken to Pirogov, Nova TV reported.

Police have detained two people - the owner of the dog and the person who took the dog for a walk. 

Environmentalists gathered in protest at the National Palace of Culture before the start of the meeting of EU environmental ministers.

According to the preliminary data the Industrial Production Index , seasonally adjusted , decreased by 1.5% in February 2018 as compared to January 2018. In February 2018 working day adjusted4 Industrial Production Index went down by 1.0% in comparison with the same month of 2017. This is according to data by the National Statistical Institute (NSI). 

In 2016, the European Union has given citizenship to almost one million people, most of them Moroccans, followed by Albanians, Indians, Pakistanis and Turks, according to Eurostat data released on Monday. This pan-European trend, however, does not apply to Bulgaria, where nearly a third of the granted citizenships are given to Russians, Ukrainians and Turks. The study also shows that Britons who have received other citizenship in EU countries have grown more than two times since Brexit.

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borissov, continues his visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. PM was a special guest to the 21st International Economic Fair in Mostar. The exhibition is a meeting place for businesses from the region and international companies.

Bulgarians working abroad have sent their relatives in Bulgaria over 1.15 billion euros last year. This is EUR 284 million more than in 2016 when the amount of money transfers amounted to EUR 869 million. This shows the preliminary data of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB).

Access to the central building of the National Palace of Culture will be limited on April 10 and 11 (Tuesday and Wednesday). The measure is due to security concerns about high-end events in the calendar of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU.
 
Tickets at the Ticket Center will normally run at regular business hours from 09:00 to 20:30, but are moved to Lumiere Lidl cinema. The online ticket reservation system is still available. 

The price of labor of a worker in France is seven times higher than that of his colleague in Bulgaria, France's Figaro reports, citing Eurostat's European Statistics Office last year. After the crisis, however, the gap has diminished.

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un discussed future talks with the US at a party meeting, state media reported on Tuesday (April 10), in his first official mention of dialogue with Washington ahead of a planned summit with President Donald Trump.

Personal data of over 35,000 Bulgarian Facebook users may have been collected by Cambridge Analytica. This was answered by Facebook this morning.

Yulia Skripal has been discharged from a British hospital, the BBC reported on Tuesday, just over a month after being poisoned with a nerve agent along with her father Sergei, a former Russian double agent, quoted by Reuters.

The informal meeting of EU Environment Ministers will be held in Sofia on 10 and 11 April 2018 at the National Palace of Culture.

Thousands of passengers at four German airports, including the biggest hub Frankfurt, were stranded on Tuesday as ground staff and other public sector workers staged walkouts across the country to increase the pressure in a pay dispute.

When Congress returns Monday from a two-week recess, all eyes will be on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as he takes the hot seat in two congressional hearings over the latest privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, reported CNN. 

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that countries need to rise to the challenge of climate change, quoted by Reuters. 

Aging populations in advanced economies drain the labor force and could slow economic growth, but allowing an influx of immigrant workers could counteract that decline, the International Monetary Fund says.

On Saturday, the South Park in Sofia will become a sports arena. The event "Exercise in your City" is organized by Sofia Municipality and is part of the initiative "Sofia - European Capital of Sport".