News archive of July 2014

Air Serbia launches flights to Tirana

BELGRADE -- Air Serbia has introduced a new service between Belgrade and Tirana that will run three times a week from September 23.

The company said on Thursday that promotional airfares will be offered to passengers on these flights.

Romanian female tennis player Simona Halep, currently 3rd in the WTA ranking, will become the world's No. 2 after China's Na Li announced she is forced to skip a series of tournaments because of a long-standing knee injury.

BELGRADE - Air Serbia has introduced a new service between Belgrade and Tirana that will run three times a week from September 23 and promotional airfares will be offered to passengers on these flights, the company said in a release on Thursday.

Planes will be departing from Belgrade at 1.20 p.m. and from Tirana at 3 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Bulgaria's government announced Thursday a shareholders' agreement was signed with US-based company Westinghouse on the construction of Kozloduy NPP's Unit 7.

The document is due to be approved on by the next elected government after the early general vote on October 5, according to the Council of Ministers' press office, the Bulgarian National Radio reports.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Government adopted on Thursday the Strategy for agriculture and rural development of Serbia for the period of the next ten years.

At a time when concerns are growing in Turkey due to an increasingly conservative and authoritarian political culture, which directly impacts the lives of women, the Istanbul Convention, a landmark treaty of the Council of Europe (CoE) dedicated to preventing and combating violence on women and domestic violence, is entering into force as of August 1.

BELGRADE - Certain provisions in the recently adopted amendments to the Labour Law in Serbia are not in keeping with European standards and some of them even constitute a setback and are inconceivable in Europe, Chair of the Confederation of German Trade Unions Reiner Hoffmann stated on Thursday.

Veteran thrash metal band Megadeth will headline Istanbul’s new Rock Off festival to be held between Aug. 2 and 4.

John Bass, who has been nominated by the Obama administration as new U.S. ambassador to Ankara, was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The committee also discussed the approval of 10 other ambassadors, along with Bass, in the meeting. The General Assembly will discuss Bass’ nomination on an unspecified date.