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Over 800,000 people gathered on Paris' most famous boulevard to celebrate the new year and enjoy the giant fireworks

World 01.01.2024 - 11:41

Hundreds of thousands welcomed the New Year with an unprecedented show on the Champs-Elysées

This is how people around the world said goodbye to 2023 and welcomed the New Year.

World 01.01.2024 - 10:42

The world welcomed 2024 with celebrations and worries

Fireworks lit the night sky in Sidney to mark the beginning of the New 2024 in Australia

World 31.12.2023 - 17:17

Australia and New Zealand have already welcomed the New Year

Deloire, "Reporters without Borders" (RSF)

World 31.12.2023 - 12:44

779 journalists were jailed in 2023, 547 will spend New Year’s Eve in prison

Jacques Attali was a French economist, financier and philosopher. In 1991, he became the founder and first head of the new European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

World 31.12.2023 - 10:01

Jacques Attali: 2024 - the year of dangers and hopes

Nearly 2,200 people died or went missing in 2023 while trying to cross the central Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to reach Europe

World 31.12.2023 - 09:23

The Guardian: Migration is Europe's collective failure in 2023

Saturday brought more misery to New Year's travellers when flooding in southern England's tunnels caused the cancellation of Eurostar trains

World 30.12.2023 - 21:12

Eurostar floods have marred passengers' New Year holidays

The combined net worth of the 500 richest people increased by $1.5 trillion in 2023

World 30.12.2023 - 09:19

The world's richest people amassed $1.5 trillion in wealth in 2023

The heiress of L'Oreal is the first woman with a fortune of 100 billion dollars

World 29.12.2023 - 13:21

The heiress of L'Oreal is the first woman with a fortune of 100 billion dollars

The gunman who killed 14 people at a Prague university appears to have confessed to also killing a two-month-old baby and his father days before the mass shooting, police in the Czech Republic said

World 28.12.2023 - 17:31

The shooter from Prague also killed a father with his two-month-old baby

The majority of the world expects a troubled, not a peaceful, year 2024

World 28.12.2023 - 14:04

"Gallup": War fears are serious, and economic expectations are gloomy

Greece is prepared to part with some of its greatest treasures to "fill the void" at the British Museum if the Parthenon marbles are reassembled in Athens, the country's culture minister has said

World 28.12.2023 - 12:19

Greece offers treasures to Britain in exchange for the Parthenon marbles

Poland's new culture minister announced on Wednesday the liquidation of all public media, which were considered the mouthpiece of the previous populist-nationalist government

World 28.12.2023 - 11:41

Poland liquidates all public media in order to restructure

Bulgaria remains among the countries with the strongest passports in the world according to the Henley Passport Index

Bulgaria 27.12.2023 - 16:16

The Bulgarian passport remains among the strongest in the world

Salzburg - the city of salt and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

World 27.12.2023 - 13:35

Salzburg - the city of salt and Mozart

Saint Stephen's Day is celebrated on the third day after Christmas - December 27

Bulgaria 27.12.2023 - 13:14

Bulgarians celebrate Saint Stephan Day Today

The Bulgarian apostle of freedom - Vasil Levski was arrested on December 27, 151 years ago

Bulgaria 27.12.2023 - 12:33

151 years ago the Turks captured Levski in the Kakrina Inn

electric car charging

World 27.12.2023 - 08:39

There are over 12,000 charging stations for electric cars in Turkey

Latvia sends drunk drivers' cars to Ukraine

World 26.12.2023 - 11:25

Latvia sends drunk drivers' cars to Ukraine

The "Batman Building" astounded the BGNES Agency crew as well, with its astounding height of 443 metres and up to 110 stories

World 26.12.2023 - 10:19

In Batman's footsteps: Chicago's Willis Tower - the building from which the world saw Gotham City