News archive of March 2016

Amid woes in Turkey's tourism sector this year, Tourism Minister Mahir Ünal has said the country wants to attract 1 million tourists from Black Sea neighbor Ukraine this year to compensate. 

A new Ro-Ro (roll-on/roll-off) route to Jordan's port of Aqaba from Turkey announced by Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu last week could boost exports to the Middle East, Turkish Exporters Assembly head Mehmet Büyükek?i said March 30.

A drone strike near Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) de facto Syrian capital Raqqa killed a jihadist commander heading to Aleppo province on orders from the organisation's chief, a monitoring group said on March 31.
 

A UN court has found Serbian political leader Vojislav Seselj not guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s.

The Hague-based institution has ruled that the defendant is not responsible for any of the nine counts in his indictment.

An explosion at Duisburg’s shipyard in Germany killed at least two people Thursday morning, according to German reports. A third worker is currently missing and police are searching for him. The two deceased workers were said to have been loading something on the tanker at the time of the explosion.

The UN court in The Hague found Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj not guilty of crimes against humanity including murder, persecution and expulsions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has called on businesses in Bulgaria and Croatia to "act and think regionally" while opening a bilateral business forum in Sofia.

The event is being held within the visit of Plevneliev's Croatian counterpart, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, to Bulgaria and has been inaugurated by the two heads of state.

The office of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on March 30 vehemently denied a media report alleging that Erdo?an "blasted" the U.S. administration in a closed-door meeting.

Hungarian author Nobel Literature Prize winner Imre Kertesz has died aged 86 early Thursday in Budapest after a long illness, his publisher said on March 31.
 
The Holocaust survivor, who won the Nobel in 2002, passed away at his home, the director of Magveto Publishing, Krisztian Nyary, told AFP.
 

Opposition parties in Kosovo expressed anger after an ad-hoc international commission on Wednesday approved the controversial border demarcation agreement between Kosovo and Montenegro.