News archive of September 2014

CACAK - Bosko Obradovic, one of the founders and Eldership member of the Dveri Movement member, and also head of an electoral list at this year’s early parliamentary elections in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), has been banned from entering the province, the movement said in a release Monday.

Former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic resumed his war crimes defence at the Hague Tribunal, distancing himself from Serb paramilitaries fighting in Croatia and from Slobodan Milosevic.

Optional reproductive health classes began in 66 high schools in Vojvodina as the new school year began on Monday, as part of attempts to address a potentially dangerous lack of knowledge among pupils.

A bison was found dead on Monday morning at the Sofia Zoo, authorities say.

This is the seventh similar incident in less than ten days, with a baby capricorn and a yak having died last week and a camel and three gaurs the previous one.

Prior to its death the bison had been ill, according to information quoted by private national channel bTV.

By Hugo Dixon

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has harshly criticized the main opposition party’s decision not to attend President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s inauguration ceremony last week, saying it shows “disrespect to the elected head of the nation” and describing the situation as “a major crisis on behalf of the main opposition.” 

Serbian FM to attend Bled Strategic Forum

BELGRADE -- Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dačić will attend the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia on Tuesday.

He will participate in a panel discussion dubbed "The Future of the Western Balkans - How to Make Regional Cooperation Work?"

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has vowed to bring down unemployment while voicing optimism that some 770,000 new jobs will be created by 2020.

“Unemployment is society's most insidious and tough enemy because it undermines the dreams of youth,” Samaras said during a meeting of the government's employment council on Monday.

Several dozen children from Vrbanjci near Banja Luka in Republika Srpska did not start school on September 1 due to their parents' boycott of the school system which does not allow Bosniaks to have their own curriculum at the local school uses the Serbian-language teaching programme.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry has summoned the US charge d'affaires over a media report that the United States had spied on Turkey intensively since 2006.