Balneo and SPA Hotel Mineral Yagoda, located in the village of Yagoda about 15 km from Stara Zagora, is establishing itself as a modern centre for balneology, spa, and rehabilitation tourism. The complex is situated in the Rose Valley, at the foot of the Stara Planina and Sredna Gora mountains, whi»»»

Stockholm: The low-carbon Swedish steel startup Stegra, which has been struggling to secure financing, said Tuesday that it had raised 1.4 billion euros ($1.6 billion) from private investors to complete a "green" steel mill. The company is building the mill, which it says will use technology that e»»»

BusinessIranTrump's naval blockade raises economic pressure on IranNik MartinA US naval blockade will cut off Iran's main source of hard currency by halting most of its oil exports. Will President Trump's pressure force Tehran back to negotiations or widen the conflict? https://p.dw.com/p/5C4oIThe »»»

Lebanon responded positively to the US administration's request for a talks' preparatory meeting between the Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors after receiving a pledge from the U.S. to pressure Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire, a Lebanese ministerial source said. The source told»»»

The Paks-2 nuclear power plant construction project in Hungary will be a special priority for Rosatom, the head of the state corporation Alexey Likhachev told reporters in Cairo on Tuesday. "Additional mobilization to address this issue (Paks-2 NPP - ed.) in Hungary will also be necessary. We can p»»»

As the capital city sheds its daytime bustle, rhythmic footsteps echo across a quiet track under the cover of night. This weekend, a group of unusual "runners" took to the course for adaptive training ahead of next week's half marathon event held in Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (»»»

Beijing criticized the United States on Tuesday over its military blockade of Iranian ports, calling it "dangerous and irresponsible" and warning that disregarding international law was to risk the world "regressing to the law of the jungle." File photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA April 14 (UPI) -- Ch»»»

Turkish police investigators work at the site of a shooting that took place in a school in Siverek district of Sanliurfa, Turkey, Tuesday. At least 16 people have been injured after a former student opened fire at the Ahmet Koyuncu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in Siverek district.»»»

Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh Moawad will prioritize a single demand as Lebanon and Israel convene for their first direct diplomatic talks in decades this Tuesday in Washington: an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire. Hezbollah and ally Amal have refused negotiations under fire and»»»

SPA Hotel Dvoretsa in Velingrad will undergo a complete renovation over the next year and a half, hotel owner Alexandra Vlahova told BTA. The project includes a large-scale renovation of the facilities and modernization of the spa centre. The hotel will remain open during renovation, with only the »»»

An Ohio man won $300,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket just hours after winning $250 from a Pick 3 drawing. Photo courtesy of the Ohio Lottery April 13 (UPI) -- An Ohio man is celebrating the luckiest day of his life after winning two lottery prizes in a single day for a total $300,250. The Akr»»»

Tokyo: Japan's net greenhouse gas emissions fell 1.9 percent in 2025 to hit their lowest levels in more than a decade, partly due to a slight uptick in nuclear and renewable energy, the government said Tuesday. Japan is heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels and is the world's fifth-largest sin»»»

Iran has become more open and positive towards the Saudi role in Lebanon, viewing it as a stabilizing factor, diplomatic sources told Al-Jadeed TV. While noting expectations of a Saudi initiative following today's Washington meeting between Lebanon and Israel, the sources revealed that the Saudi sp»»»

Algiers: Pope Leo XIV travelled to the Algerian city of Annaba on Tuesday to walk in the footsteps of Christian theologian Saint Augustine, on day two of a historic trip marred by a spat with US President Donald Trump. On Monday the American pontiff became the first pope ever to visit Algeria, the »»»

The mother of a 14-year-old boy who suffered serious injury after a firecracker exploded in his hand last Sunday said her son found it on the ground while playing with his friends. “The firecracker was clogged, the cap was open. The child tried to hold it and at that moment it exploded in his hands»»»

Skopje, 9 April 2026 (MIA) - We lowered the VAT for fuels at the largest rate in the region and then intervened with the excise tax. The inflation in March, compared to the same month in 2025, is only 0.7 percent, says Deputy PM and Transport Minister Aleksandar Nikoloski. Deputy PM Nikolsoki told »»»

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he supports direct peace talks between the Israeli and Lebanese governments, which are set to start Tuesday in Washington. Merz called for an end to hostilities in southern Lebanon and said mil»»»

Tuesday's talks between Lebanon and Israel will be "open and direct, not merely technical or formal, and will address the security of Israel's northern border," U.S. State Department sources told MTV. "However, the core U.S. objective goes beyond this, reaching a fundamental question: Is the Lebane»»»

Speaking in Asenovgrad, the leader of “Progressive Bulgaria” Rumen Radev said that a high voter turnout could fundamentally reshape the political landscape, arguing that mass participation would lead to the removal of Boyko Borissov and Delyan Peevski from public life. “We will remove Borissov and »»»

China and Russia should elevate their comprehensive strategic cooperation to a superior level across all fields, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov during a meeting in Beijing. "Hegemony and the harm it generates are becoming increasingly evident, with the s»»»

Let’s start with something surprising. We even wrote an article expressing worries about potential manipulation and what the reaction to Viktor Orbán’s defeat would be. In the end, he congratulated Peter Magyar quite early, and there was no big news about major manipulations. So, what happened? Tha»»»

Barcelona: European football governing body UEFA rejected Tuesday Barcelona's complaint over a handball incident in their Champions League quarter-final first leg defeat by Atletico Madrid, hours before the second leg. Diego Simeone's side won 2-0 at Camp Nou last week and Barca were upset by an in»»»

Baghdad's oil ministry said Tuesday it has "understandings" with the United States and Iran to reduce the impact of the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on Iraqi oil exports. The ministry did not elaborate or say when these reported understandings were reached. But Iran announced earlier this month»»»

Bulgaria's 90-day fuel reserves should not be used to reduce prices but must be preserved as a buffer in case of physical shortages, caretaker Energy Minister Traicho Traikov told journalists on Tuesday after the opening of the National Repository for Radioactive Waste at the Radiana site near Kozl»»»

Michal Strnad, Czech owner of regional weaponry and ammunition conglomerate Czechoslovak Group (CSG), is said to be in talks with the richest Czech investment company PPF Group over a sale of TV Markíza, the biggest commercial television station in Slovakia. »»»

The planned sale of a majority stake in Serbia’s oil company NIS to Hungary’s MOL Group has become increasingly uncertain following Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary’s general election, though Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic said he still expects a deal to proceed. »»»

The planned sale of a majority stake in Serbia’s oil company NIS to Hungary’s MOL Group has become increasingly uncertain following Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary’s general election, though Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic said he still expects a deal to proceed. »»»

Michal Strnad, Czech owner of regional weaponry and ammunition conglomerate Czechoslovak Group (CSG), is said to be in talks with the richest Czech investment company PPF Group over a sale of TV Markíza, the biggest commercial television station in Slovakia. »»»

Manila: Manila said Tuesday it was seeking US permission to buy more Russian crude, as the import-dependent Philippines scrambles to shore up scant fuel supplies amid a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The Philippines' sole oil refinery secured nearly 2.5 million barrels last month after seeing at»»»

April 14 (UPI) -- Authorities in the Bahamas have released the 58-year-old American man detained last week in the investigation into missing American Lynette Hooker. The man, Lynette Hooker's husband, Brian Hooker, was released Monday, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement that only id»»»

Istanbul: An ex-student opened fire at his former high school Tuesday in Turkiye, where school shootings are rare, wounding 16 people including students before killing himself, officials said. Special security forces were deployed to the school in southeastern Turkiye's Sanliurfa province, where st»»»

FALLOUT OF IRAN CONFLICT 24 Chasa writes that premium diesel has surpassed the EUR 2 mark. At least three of the major gas station chains are selling this fuel at EUR 2.00, 2.02, and 2.03 per liter. Since Sunday, the prices of regular diesel and petrol have also increased by EUR 0.01, according to »»»

An ex-student opened fire at his former high school Tuesday in Türkiye, where school shootings are rare, wounding 16 people including students before killing himself, officials said. Special security forces were deployed to the school in southeastern Türkiye 's Sanliurfa province, where students we»»»

Hanoi, Vietnam: Electric vehicle sales have jumped in Southeast Asia as cost-conscious buyers have poured into dealerships looking to dodge the fuel price spikes driven by the Middle East war. Asian nations have been particularly hard hit due to a sharp fall in the crude shipments they rely on -- a»»»

Saudi Arabia has invested about SAR100 billion ($26.7 billion) in its water sector since 2018, as part of its National Water Strategy to improve efficiency and sustainability while expanding private sector participation in line with Vision 2030. Deputy Minister for Water at the Ministry of Environm»»»

Negotiating teams from the US and Iran could return to Islamabad later this week, five sources said on Tuesday, days after the highest-level talks between the two countries in decades ended without a breakthrough. A source involved in the talks said a date was not yet decided, but both countries co»»»

Abu Dhabi’s ‘Darb’ toll system is expanding to other external roads in the emirate, and new gates have been installed at strategic locations. The toll gates, installed by the Department of Transport under Abu Dhabi Municipality, operating as Abu Dhabi Mobility, have come up in areas such as Ghantoo»»»

Madrid: Spain will on Tuesday approve a decree expected to regularise around 500,000 undocumented migrants, said Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who has bucked a European trend cracking down on irregular immigration. Cabinet will pass the measure "that begins the extraordinary regularisation process »»»

Khaled Ghulam, Director of the Media Office at the National Oil Corporation (NOC), told yesterday that the resumption of LPG tanker arrivals at the Marsa al-Brega port, after a hiatus since 2017, represents a significant strategic step towards stabilizing supplies in the local market. Ghulam explai»»»

A total of EUR 1 million has been seized in police operations against vote buying, Interior Ministry Secretary General Georgi Kandev said in a social media post Tuesday. In an earlier post, he said that an online ring for vote-buying has been dismantled. Kandev wrote: "It is EUR 1 million, with whi»»»

Around seven in 10 people in Sudan are now living in poverty, a senior UN official told AFP on Tuesday, nearly twice as many as before the war between the army and paramilitary forces broke out three years ago. "Before the war, we were probably looking (at) around 38 percent of people living in pov»»»

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to end fighting in southern Lebanon and engage in direct peace talks with the Lebanese government, a spokesman said. Merz also expressed his "grave concern" about developments in the Palestinian territories i»»»

China's President Xi Jinping warned against a return to the "law of the jungle" in international relations and called for closer economic ties with Spain as he met Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Beijing on Tuesday, according to Chinese state media. The meeting of the two leaders comes on the secon»»»

From his small shop in Beirut, facing a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, Qassem Saad said he was exhausted by repeated Israeli wars on Lebanon, and hoped negotiations could end decades of suffering. "We know that Israel will remain an enemy to us, but we are tired," 49-year-old Saad, who»»»

The global economy enters a new stage of uncertainty as the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said American forces began implementing a blockade of maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports. US President Donald Trump ordered the naval blockade after marathon peace talks with Iran in Islamabad,»»»

The Committee of Economic Affairs in the House of Representatives has finalized its review of the long awaited new investment law, Mohamed Khodeir, Head of General Authority for Investment (GAFI) said, noting that the committee has discussed all clauses in the law with him throughout the previous p»»»

Lebanese and Israeli representatives are scheduled to meet in Washington Tuesday for U.S.-mediated talks on ending the war in Lebanon, but the prospects of an agreement appear slim. Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem called for the talks to be scrapped before they even began, describing them as "f»»»

An uncontrolled collapse of the internal radiation shell at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine could increase the risk of radioactivity release in the environment, Greenpeace warned on Tuesday. In 1986, while Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, a reactor at Chernobyl exploded,»»»

Two US lawmakers stepped down on Monday and two others faced possible expulsion amid scandals roiling Congress. Democrat Eric Swalwell resigned after misconduct allegations, while Republican Tony Gonzales said he would retire following pressure over an affair with a former aide, deepening turmoil i»»»

Global technology company Lenovo has inaugurated its regional headquarters in Riyadh, after investing more than 2 billion riyals ($532 million) in the Saudi economy, underscoring the Kingdom’s growing role as a regional technology and industrial hub. The move goes beyond establishing an administrat»»»