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Editors of travel guide Lonely Planet are predicting that Greece will be the top travel destination in Europe this year, as the country shows strong signs of bouncing back from a turbulent few years marked by political instability and anti-austerity protests.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Milica Mandic has won a gold medal while Tijana Bogdanovic a silver at a taekwondo G1 tournament in Switzerland.

Mandic, an Olympic champion, beat France's Aurelia Sanfilippo 7-1, Croatia's Iva Rados by a golden point and Dutch competitor Reshmie Oogink by a golden point in the final of the -73 kg weightclass to take the gold.

The last draft of Romania's Partnership Agreement with the European Commission is much better than the original one; the Romanian Government will take into account EC's observations and will improve the document to be signed, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Thursday evening.

BELGRADE - Finnish Ambassador to Serbia Pekka Orpana opened on Wednesday a seminar under the title “Stronger together - Nordic Cooperation and Innovation: A relevance to the Western Balkans?” with a message that the Nordic type of cooperation is a form of cooperation that could be implemented in the Western Balkans countries.

Nicosia held its first Greek Cypriot gay pride parade, 16 years after homosexuality was decriminalized on the Mediterranean island, where the influential Orthodox Church views non-heterosexual relations as sinful.

A study prepared by Turkish and Greek Cypriot economists predicts that a peace deal would generate 20 billion euros for the divided island, by expanding the size of their economies Cyprus reunification deal would generate a 20-billion-euro ($27.2 billion) peace dividend for the recession-hit island, according to a study released.

A Cyprus reunification deal would generate a 20-billion-euro peace dividend for the recession-hit island, according to a study released on Thursday.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday granted early release to Ranko Cesic, who was convicted of torturing, raping and murdering Bosniak and Croat detainees at the Luka detention camp in 1992.

Turkey is deeply concerned over the “abduction” of four observers of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), including a Turkish citizen, by “unknown persons” near the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 26, the Foreign Ministry has stated.

Although it was not given much attention in Turkey, with the latest Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament has gained prominence in European politics and thus the winners and losers of the last weekend’s elections indeed will have an impact on the climate between Turkey and Europe as well.