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Greece, Mexico, Indonesia, Romania and Egypt have tabled a resolution, titled "Right to Work", that marks the start of a serises of initiatives in the employment sector.

A total of 94.5 per cent of people who turned out to cast ballots in the referendum on Sunday expressed disapproval about the building of the power Plomin C plant near the town of Labin.

But the turnout at 36 per cent was not high enough to make the vote binding because it did not pass the 50 per cent legal threshold.

Now that the lira and other emerging market (EM) currencies have somewhat stabilized, at least for the moment, it may be useful to try to understand why some underperformed, while others overperformed, peers.

Shinzo Abe is expected to become the first Japanese prime minister in history to address a joint session of the US Congress, crowning an April visit focused on deepening trade and military ties.
      
Abe hopes to make the speech during a trip to the United States at the end of next month, around Japan's "Golden Week" holiday, diplomatic and legislative sources told AFP.

Sixteen Indonesians, mostly women and children, have been arrested in Turkey attempting to cross into Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
      
The 11 children, four women and one man from the world's most populous Muslim-majority country were detained in the Turkish border town of Gaziantep. Officials did not say when they were arrested.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on March 10 urged Japan to resolve issues surrounding Tokyo's system of wartime sex slavery, her second foray into the delicate issue of East Asia's history.
      

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Wednesday received the credentials of newly-appointed Indonesian Ambassador to Serbia Harry Richard James Kandou.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met on Monday with heads of the diplomatic missions of the Asia-Pacific region in Belgrade to discuss intensifying of the political dialogue and promoting the economic cooperation.

Defense minister in Abu Dhabi for arms show

ABU DHABI -- Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic attended on Sunday the opening of the 12th International Defense Exhibition and Conference IDEX 2015 in Abu Dhabi.

After visiting the stand of the Serbian company Yugoimport-SDPR the minister told Tanjug that the country's defense industry was "successfully presented."

ABU DHABI - Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic attended on Sunday the opening of 12th International Defense Exhibition and Conference, IDEX 2015, dedicated to military technologies and innovations in Abu Dhabi.

At the exhibition, we have successfully presented our defense industry, Gasic told Tanjug after visiting the stand of the Serbian company Yugoimport-SDPR.