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The U.S. ambassador in Ankara, John Bass, will represent his country in the commemoration ceremonies for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli, U.S. Embassy spokesperson Joe Wierichs told Hürriyet Daily News. 

Turkey will host leaders from all corners of the world when it holds commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli April 24-25.

The heads of state for 20 nations will be in attendance, while two parliament speakers, three vice presidents, five prime ministers and around 20 ministers will also attend the ceremonies.

Italian police arrested 15 African men suspected of throwing about a dozen Christians from a migrant boat in the Mediterranean on April 16, as the crisis off southern Italy intensified. 

Forty-one more deaths were reported in a separate incident. 

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed on Tuesday the Bulgarian Petko Draganov as his Special Representative and Head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

Draganov succeeds the Slovak Miroslav Jenca, who was recently appointed as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, the site of UNRCCA informs.

LESKOVAC - The injured illegal migrants admitted to Leskovac general hospital are not in a life-threatening condition and their recovery is going well, hospital director Nebojsa Dimitrijevic told Tanjug on Wednesday.

A total of 29 migrants from Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria, Burma, Syria and Algeria are hospitalized in the surgical, orthopedic and ENT departments, he specified.

Rioting spectators forced a 34-minute stoppage in the African Nations Cup semifinal and several people were injured as Ghana eliminated hosts Equatorial Guinea with a 3-0 defeat on Feb. 5. 

Guinea qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals on Jan. 29 after a drawing of lots was required to separate them and Mali.
      
They will go through to a quarter-final on Sunday in Malabo against Group C winners Ghana while Mali go home.
      

The head of Boko Haram -- the enigmatic Abubakar Shekau -- has openly taunted the countries being menaced by the armed Islamist group as they call for a united effort to crush it.
      

Serbian-origin Swedish center back Alexander Milosevic, the new arrival of Turkey?s Be?ikta? football club, has said this was not his first time in the country, as he tasted the police tear gas in the summer of 2013 during a U-21 national game at Istanbul?s Kas?mpa?a stadium near the core of the Gezi Park protests.

BELGRADE - The exhibition entitled "Traditional African Murals" by Natasa Njegovanovic Ristic will be opened at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade on Tuesday.

The exhibition will display photographs of painted, relief and mosaic decorations used in house exterior and interior design and settlements in different parts of the African continent.