News archive of November 2015

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has claimed responsibility for last week's slaying of two Syrian journalists in Turkey's southeastern province of ?anl?urfa.

Kosovo's parliament ratified the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) on Monday with 86 of the legislature's 120 MPs voting in favour.

Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said the SAA would contribute to further strengthening the country's rule of law as well as its economy.

“The fact that the Greek banks recapitalization needs do not exceed 25 billion euros is positive,” the German Finance ministry spokesman, Juerg Weissgerber, said on Monday clarifying, though, that it is too early to estimate whether the total Greek program could be contained.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras inaugurated on Monday the first independent therapeutic community KETHEA-Prometheus for detained drug users.

It can accommodate up to 84 people who will get a 24-hour basis treatment.

Pristina and Belgrade stepped up their lobbying campaigns for and against Kosovo’s bid to join UN cultural body UNESCO ahead of the final vote next week.

A man has attempted suicide after trying to enter a presidential facility in Istanbul following a quarrel with the police. 

The unidentified suspect entered the Huber Kö?k, a presidential facility located in Istanbul's Tarabya district, despite police asking him to stop. 

Turkey witnessed a new high on Nov. 1 with a turnout of over 85 percent of eligible voters in the snap elections held only five months after the June 7 parliamentary elections.

The British artist, Poppy Jackson, sat naked on the top of a London rooftop for four hours as a piece of performance art.

The performance is titled ‘Site’ and ‘investigates questions relating to temporality, the body in site, representation and gender through consideration of the use of the body in performance as an activist practice’, as it is mentioned at the artist’s website.

The upcoming European Commission report on progress in EU integrations will for the most part refer to the migrant crisis.

The report will refer to EU's enlargement to a lesser extent than in previous years, the Belgrade-based daily Danas writes, citing diplomatic sources, the Beta agency reported.

Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that no possible causes of the Saturday's crash of a Russian airplane in Egypt should be ruled out.

According to him, no possible causes should be ruled out for the moment as the investigators were only starting their work.