Munich

Ukraine is at crossroads - OSCE chairperson

VIENNA -- Ukraine is currently at a crossroads - between whether the clashes will continue, or if work will be done on the peace option, Ivica Dacic has said.

Following last week's terrorist attacks in Paris, 25 000 people joined an anti-Islamisation march in Dresden, while thousands of other Germans participated in counter-rallies on Monday.

The anti-Islamisation marches in Dresden have become the trademark of the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West, shortened to PEGIDA, the BBC reports.

Starting from next year, several new airlines are starting flights from Rijeka to Germany, Britain, Lithuania and Latvia, in a bid to bring new development to the Kvarner region of northwest Croatia.

The calculators will be out in force as AS Roma and Manchester City clash for a place in the last 16 of the Champions League on Dec. 10 with outsiders CSKA Moscow lurking in the background.
   

S. Stream "sobering for Serbia," says German paper

BERLIN -- It was "sobering for Serbia to learn that in the NIS sale contract had no clause on compensation or extra payment in case of the South Stream pipeline failure."

This is what German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung writes in an article it dedicated to relations between Serbia and Russia.

BELGRADE - The exhibition of jewelry by Nevena Arsic, inspired by the antique jewelry from Serbian archaeological sites dating from the Late Antique and Early Byzantine periods and medieval Serbian jewelry, will be opened at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade on Tuesday.

Arsic will present necklaces, bracelets, rings, hairpins and earrings made of copper or fine silver.

 Prosecutors getting close to key officials who signed off on deals a decade ago

German prosecutors on Thursday searched the Munich offices of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) in connection to the alleged payment of bribes to Greek officials over the sale of 170 Leopard 2 tanks and 24 self-propelled howitzers at least a decade ago, Kathimerini understands.

Herta Strossberger, the former lover of Stjepan Djurekovic, the dissident who was murdered in Germany in 1983, testified at the murder trial in Munich on Tuesday that he told her that he was worried that he could be kidnapped by the Yugoslav security agency, UDBA.

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‘A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood’ by Ian Johnson (Mariner Books, 336 pages, $16)