News archive of July 2017

NIS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Friday expressed the hope Serbia would win another victory against a Kosovo UNESCO membership bid and that a vote on this would not be swayed in Pristina's favour.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Monday there is no larger threat to Baltic states than the "specter of aggression" by Russia, as he pledged support for NATO allies Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, reported Voice of America. 

"The Theater of Disappearance" is a large-scale site-specific installation by Adrian Villar Rojas. This is the first time the celebrated Argentinean artist has worked at an archaeological site, where he has radically altered both the indoor and outdoor space of the National Observatory of Athens in Thiseio. The installation will remain in place until September 24.

Ismail Morina, arrested in Croatia on Serbia's warrant over a scandal during a football game played in Belgrade in 2014, is seeking political asylum in Croatia.

We fell in love with the movie The Singing Shoes from the first watch. Тhe play of Raya Peeva, Donna Bangjizova, Ernestina Shinova, Julian Petrov and all the others is more than wonderful, and the story is worth to watch.

Foreign ministers from Islamic countries will meet in Istanbul on August 1st to discuss the situation at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the Foreign Ministry announced on Friday, quoted by Daily Sabah.

Members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold an extraordinary meeting following a call from Ankara.

Turkey's opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) will continue its "Conscience and Justice Watch" in Istanbul after spending a week in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

It is set to begin in Yoğurtçu Park in Istanbul's Kadıköy on Aug. 1 and will continue for a week.

The Luxembourg government approved the law passed by parliament, which gives full rights to resources derived from space. This law has been worked on since last year and now, as of August 1, it enters into force. Reports Kaldata. 

An Athens prosecutor has recommended that Greece's former statistics chief, Andreas Georgiou, be convicted of breach of duty for not relinquishing the IMF post he held for 21 years before he joined ELSTAT.

A group of Croatian 1990s war veterans shouted and insulted speakers at a commemoration for Serb civilians killed by the WWII fascist Ustasa movement in the town of Glina.