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BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met on Wednesday with France's new Ambassador to Serbia Christine Moro to discuss the relations between the two nations, Serbias EU integration and French investments.

Records of treasury transactions published by Open Data Albania, a Tirana-based watchdog, show Albania's Ministry of Justice paid 36,000 lek (about 250 euros )to the Albanian Football Federation on October 8 for football tickets.

France's government is drawing up a new set of rules for theatres after Paris Opera ejected woman for wearing a veil during a performance, the institution's deputy director said Sunday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic had a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Manuel Valls discussing the preparations for the upcoming visit of the French Prime Minister to Serbia.

Russia and Ukraine made a progress in reaching an agreement on the gas supplies row, reports Reuters.

European leaders, however, said Moscow has to significantly increase its efforts to support the ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine.

The deal aims at re-opening Russian gas supplies to Ukraine ahead of the cold winter months.

Car sales in Europe rose 6.1 percent in September, helped by strong demand in the region’s top markets of Germany, the UK and France, data from the Association of European Carmakers (ACEA) showed on Friday.

Growth of nearly 30 percent or more in Spain, Portugal and Greece, countries formerly hit by austerity, stoked demand for volume brands.

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In September, the EU market for new passenger cars expanded for the thirteenth consecutive month, totalling 1,235,501 units, the latest report released by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association.

Putin meets with Merkel and Poroshenko

MILAN -- Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Milan with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Putin and Merkel stated that there are still serious differences in their opinions regarding the Ukrainian crisis.

BELGRADE - The European soccer's governing body UEFA should deal seriously with the abandonment of the Serbia vs Albania match, says Dick Advocaat, the head coach of the Serbian national team, adding that he is proud of the way his players conducted themselves during the incident.

Historians Alexandru Zub and Gheorghe Cliveti of the A.D. Xenopol History Institute of the Romanian Academy will hold two conferences at Moldova's Academy of Sciences in Chisinau on October 21, as part of a project called 'Academic Readings,' the Mihai Eminescu Romanian Culture Institute reports.