News archive of November 2014

"Change of government could lead to hell"

BELGRADE -- Commenting on a European parliament resolution on Vojislav Šešelj, Tomislav Nikolić said the EP allowed Croatia to "instrumentalize it for election purposes."

EU Budget Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva said today that it is more important to reach a sound, rather than prompt agreement on the EU budget.

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BELGRADE - The departure of the Viking Amble from the Belgrade port on Friday, with its cargo of US passengers, marked the end of this year's tourist season when it comes to shipping, which saw around 70,000 passengers enter the city on cruisers.

Iraqi Turkmens have said they want to help defend the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk against Islamist jihadists along with Kurdish militants and have asked Baghdad to supply arms and a budget.

"We also want to contribute to the defense of Kirkuk with the Peshmerga," Arshad al-Salihi, the head of the Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITC), told state-run Anadolu Agency on Nov. 28.

China has lashed out at Turkey for offering shelter to roughly 200 Uighurs from the western Chinese region of Xinjiang who were rescued from a human-smuggling camp in Thailand.

Turkish Cypriot President Derviş Eroğlu has thrown his hat into the ring by announcing that he will run as an independent candidate in the country's presidential election to be held in April 2015.

Eroğlu, who was previously elected as the Turkish Cypriot leader in 2010, became the first to announce his candidacy via a statement on Nov. 28.

BELGRADE - Citizens' savings has been on a constant rise and the figures reached RSD 1,020.9 billion in October, the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) released on Friday.

Measured in euros in keeping with the NBS official middle exchange rate, Serbian citizens' savings totalled around EUR 8.46 billion in October 2014.

The average temperatures in December will be around the norm - from around 4 to -5° in the various parts of the country, said Bulgaria's Meteorology Institute in its monthly forecast.

The expected precipitation will be around and above the norm, with snow likely around Christmas and before New Year's Eve.

December will start with rain and snow.

The Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) decided to focus on “lies and gossip via the use of technological devices” as the topic in this week’s Friday sermon preached in Istanbul’s mosques.

BELGRADE - Retail sale recorded an increase in Serbia in October on both the monthly and annual level, the preliminary data by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia show.