Pope says humanity hungry for peace, gestures of forgiveness needed
Pope Leo XIV said in Cameroon Friday that humanity is hungry for peace, and gestures of forgiveness are needed. There is a humanity hungry for peace, the pope reiterated in his homily at Mass in the southwestern port city of…
Reports that jet fuel within EU will last for six weeks “not accurate” Commissioner says
The European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, speaking on Friday at a press conference, in Nicosia, after the informal meeting of EU Tourism Ministers, stressed that reports saying that jet fuel in the EU is only sufficient for the…
Health minister: Seven in ten screened have at least one risk factor
ZAGREB, 17 April (Hina) – Health Minister Irena Hrstić said in Pula on Friday that seven in ten people over the age of 40 who had not visited their family doctor for two years but attended a preventive check-up were found to…
PM Mitsotakis contacts Lebanese president and Israeli PM, expressing satisfaction over ceasefire
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday contacted Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the telephone for a briefing on the latest developments in Lebanon, expressing his satisfaction with the 10-day ceasefire agreed by the two…
Nine countries represented at Bucharest’s second International Conference on Creativity in Dance
The second edition of the International Conference on Creativity in Dance (ICCD), an initiative dedicated to exploring the most relevant directions of contemporary dance at a global level, will take place between April 20 and 23, at the I.L. Caragiale…
Central Bank Sees Rise in Foreign Direct Investment in Bulgaria
Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria reached EUR 809.1 million at the end of February this year, preliminary Bulgarian National Bank data showed on Friday. The net flow of direct investment into the country rose by 87.4% compared with the same…
Kazakh president says Astana, Ankara could play ‘very positive’ role in tackling ‘most acute global issues’
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Friday that Kazakhstan and Türkiye could play a “very positive” and “huge” role in “tackling” the world’s “most acute issues.” Speaking at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on the southern coast of Türkiye, Tokayev said that…
Butrint National Park sees 49% rise in visitors in March
TIRANA, April 16 /ATA/ – Butrint National Park, southern Albania, recorded a 49% increase in visitor numbers in March compared with the same month a year earlier, according to official figures. One of the country’s most visited cultural heritage sites,…
National Gallery mounts ethnography-inspired exhibition
Skopje, 17 April 2026 (MIA) — A new exhibition opened Thursday at the National Gallery’s Chifte Amam, highlighting how traditional Macedonian culture influenced the region’s modern art movement. Titled “Ethnography in Works from the National Gallery Collection,” the exhibition consists…
Monstat: Foreign trade exchange reaches €5.03 billion
Podgorica, (MINA-BUSINESS) – According to preliminary statistics released by Monstat, Montenegro’s total foreign trade amounted to €5.03 million in last year, up 7.2 percent year on year. The export amounted to a total of €572.3 million in this period, down…
