News archive of October 2014

One of eight people arrested on Wednesday night after an attack on a police precinct in Mesolongi, western Greece, was remanded in pretrial custody on Friday.

Two other suspects, aged 19 and 20, were released on bail, while the other five were granted unconditional release.

A truck plowed into an electricity pole in the coastal city of Piraeus on Friday, causing a blackout in the area close to central Hatzikyriakou Street, where the accident occurred.

There was no information suggesting why the truck, which had been parked on a slope, careened into the electricity pole, as well as a garbage bin and parked cars.

No one was injured.

In a few months' time, three leading outsourcing firms will open offices in Bulgaria's Plovdiv.

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The appeal of former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, currently serving 20 years for accepting bribes in exchange for weapons contracts, was postponed until November 14 on Friday as the court examines a slew of objections filed by his defense.

BELGRADE - Dragonslayers (Zmajeubice), a play written by Serbian playwright Milena Markovic and directed by Iva Milosevic, will be staged by a Yugoslav Drama Theatre (JDP) troupe at the National Theatre in Prague on November 3 and the Schauspielhaus theatre in Graz on November 6.

Police were seeking two men in connection with a deadly drive-by shooting at Vathis Square in central Athens early on Friday.

A 44-year-old Greek man was killed in the attack and an Albanian woman was injured.

BELGRADE - The non-profit organisation Serbian City Club from London has celebrated its 10th anniversary in Belgrade, the organisation has stated.

The local bourse lost about one-seventh of its capitalization in October as the benchmark declined 13.73 percent within the month despite Friday’s gains of almost 1 percent.

Romania has managed to keep the number of inhabitants in rural areas, to provide the opportunity to young people to return to and work in their village, Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Daniel Constantin told Friday's conference 'Romanian Organic Forum,' held within the Indagra 2014 trade fair.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister of Defence Bratislav Gasic and Indonesian Ambassador Samuel Samson agreed on Friday that the political relations between the two countries were good and improving further.