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BELGRADE/OTTAWA - On the last day of a visit to Canada, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic met with his counterpart Stephane Dion after attending the inaugural meeting of the parliamentary friendship group for cooperation with Serbia.

Bulgarians will be able to travel to Canada visa-free as of December 1, 2017.

The agreement was reached during emergency negotiations at a meeting of the European Council, which continued until early in the morning in Brussels on Friday.

A new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project to clear Turkey's eastern borders of land mines was launched on April 4, International Land Mine Awareness Day, at a hotel in Ankara with the participation of Defense Minister ?smet Y?ld?z.

A Turkish Airlines plane flying from New York to Istanbul was diverted to Canada on Nov. 22 because of a bomb threat, but police said no explosives were found.
 
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said the plane, with 256 passengers and crew, landed at Halifax Stanfield International Airport early Sunday after being alerted to the bomb threat.
 

Canada will soon discuss with Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey taking 25,000 Syrian refugees off their hands and resettling them in this country by year's end, the immigration minister said Nov. 9.

For several days in September, the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna will be hosting a festival which was once a young and ambitious contender to become a key event in the world of animated movies.

Len Homeniuk, a former CEO of Toronto-based Centerra Gold mining company, is facing an extradition hearing in Bulgaria on Thursday, the Globe and Mail has reported.

Thousands of people are expected to take part in dozens of marches in cities across the globe on August 15 in support of Iran's deal with world powers over its controversial nuclear programme.

Canada carried out its first air strikes in Syria on Wednesday the military said, expanding Ottawa's contribution to the US-led coalition against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), after parliament approved a larger role in the conflict.
      

An agent who helped three British schoolgirls cross into Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant  (ISIL) was also working as a courier to transfer money to jihadists, a Turkish newspaper reported on March 15.