News archive of February 2015

Life is short, so is February. A few days shorter than other months, February did not even exist once.

The president determined the basic topic of the coming general election as ?constitutional change and the presidential system,? and he has personally begun to ?campaign for the presidential system.? In fact, ?the presidential system,? in the mind of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and his supporters rather sounds like a system of ?supreme guidance.?

BELGRADE - The railway companies Zeleznice Srbije, Chinese Railway Corporation and Coroporation of Hungarian State Railways have signed a memorandum of understanding concerning a feasibility study for the Belgrade-Budapest railroad project, Zeleznice Srbije said on Sunday.

Head of Zeleznice Srbije Miroslav Stojcic signed the agreement for the company.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has lodged a statement of opposition to the 15 articles of the new homeland security bill, saying that the penalty given for brandishing a sling is higher than the penalty of gun possession.

A rare explosion in central Damascus targeted a bus believed to be carrying Lebanese Shiite Muslim pilgrims on Jan. 31, killing at least six people and wounding more than 20, a Reuters witness and local media said. 
A social media account linked to al Qaeda's Nusra Front said the hardline Sunni group was behind the attack on the bus near a market place in the capital. 

Australian journalist Peter Greste will keep fighting to free his colleagues still jailed in Egypt, his family said Monday, after he was released following more than 400 days in prison on charges of backing the Muslim Brotherhood.
      

Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste left Egypt for his native Australia Feb. 1 after serving 400 days in a Cairo prison on charges that included aiding a terrorist group, security officials said. 

While word is going around that President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s daughter, Sümeyye Erdo?an, will run for office in the upcoming general elections in June, the names of several bureaucrats may also be pronounced.

Thirteen Ukrainian soldiers and at least seven civilians have been killed in fighting in the past 24 hours, Kyiv authorities said on Jan. 31, reporting widespread clashes with Russian-backed separatists a day after peace talks collapsed. 

"Fighting continues across all sections of the frontline," Kyiv military spokesman Volodymyr Polyovy said in a briefing. 

Six Bulgarian U.N. aid workers who were detained by rebels in Sudan's strife-torn South Kordofan region have been released, the Bulgarian foreign ministry said on Jan. 31.

"They are in good health and are in a safe place with a team of the United Nations (World) Food Program," foreign ministry spokeswoman Betina Zhoteva said.