Ivory Coast

Ebola screening at Serbian airports "not rigorous"

BELGRADE -- The World Health Organization has recently said that Europe is "very well prepared" for a possible Ebola outbreak.

However, experiences of travelers arriving from Africa show that airport checks are "not very rigorous."

Sierra Leone’s footballers are motivated by a sense of betrayal by fellow Africans over the Ebola virus that has led to a near pariah status and forced them to play all their games away from home.
  

More than 90 international leaders and politicians are expected to attend Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s presidential handover ceremony.  

At least 15 countries will be represented at the highest level at the event, however, the United States will send its Ankara Embassy’s chargé d’affairs, a rather low level participant compared to other countries.

West Bromwich Albion have signed Greece striker Georgios Samaras on a two-year contract following his release from Scottish champions Celtic, the English Premier League club said on Friday.

The British-Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin, who is engaged to George Clooney, on Aug. 11 pulled out of an appointment to serve on a U.N. commission on possible violations of the rules of war in Gaza.
     

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic presented on Thursday the officers of the 57th class of the National Defence School General Staff professional improvement course with officer sabers and said that Serbian officers on peace missions were ambassadors and the most eloquent testimony of Serbia and its dedication to peace and security in the world.

By Nikos Xydakis

By George Georgakopoulos

Eleven-year-old Jay Beatty as well as tens of thousands of Greece fans have had their demand answered by the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO), which has invited the Celtic and avid Giorgos Samaras fan to travel to Brazil and attend Greece’s game with Costa Rica on Sunday.

Greece will not take the challenge of Costa Rica lightly when they meet in the second round of the World Cup finals in Recife on Sunday, said coach Fernando Santos after he guided the Greeks to their first ever appearance in the knockout stages.

Fans of the Greek national squad, which made it into the top 16 of the World Cup this week, have launched a Facebook campaign, "O JAY PAEI Mundial," in a bid to convince the Greek Soccer Federation (EPO) to spring for the tickets to get an 11-year-old Scottish fan of team striker Georgios Samaras to Brazil in time to see Greece square off with Costa Rica on Sunday.