News archive of March 2015

BELGRADE - Minister of Agriculture Snezana Bogosavljevic Boskovic presented on Tuesday the Strategy of Agriculture and Rural Development of Serbia from 2014 to 2024.

Tens of provinces across Turkey were left without electricity on Tuesday after a damage to the power grid that passes through the biggest city Istanbul links the country's European and Asian territories.

Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu says no version is currently being dismissed to explain the incident, including a terror attack, according to Hürriyet Daily News.

Iraqi forces have retaken the Salaheddin provincial government headquarters in Tikrit from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a significant advance in the battle to recapture the city, officials said March 31.
      

BELGRADE - The Cities of Belgrade and Moscow will sign a cooperation agreement in the Russian capital in June, to deepen cooperation between the two cities in several areas over the next few years, Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali said Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Famous U.S. blues musician Carvin Jones will perform in Belgrade's Youth Centre on April 9 within his European tour to promote his latest album 'The Carvinator'.

Carvin Jones and his band appeared onstage at festivals throughout Europe and he also performed with famous musicians including Buddy Miles, Gary Moore, Eric Burdon and The Animals.

Serbia's lack of desire to join NATO "not wrong"

BELGRADE -- Vice President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Paolo Alli has said that "it is not wrong" that Serbia does not want to be a member of this alliance.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters killed at least 30 people in a Syrian village near the city of Hama overnight, a group monitoring the war said, part of a pattern of attacks by the ultra-radical force in government-held areas of western Syria.
   

Bulgaria marked one of biggest year-on-year falls in unemployment rate in the EU in February 2015, official statistics showed on Tuesday.

The EU-28 unemployment rate was 9.8% in February, down from 9.9% in the prior month and from 10.5% in February 2014.

A U.S.-led programme to train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants will start in May, Turkey's Defence Minister ?smet Y?lmaz was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency on March 31.
   

Greece's energy minister said on Tuesday that major Russian firms will take part in a Greek tender for deep-sea oil and gas exploration, after the cash-strapped country extended the bidding process by two months.