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The disclosure of leaked HSBC confidential documents that reveal how the Swiss bank was helping its wealthy clients, including several Greeks, to conceal millions of their assets, has caused global uproar during the last 24 hours.

Belgrade among 10 "must-see" destinations

DUBLIN -- Belgrade is one of the ten holiday spots to visit in 2015 recommended by the Irish Times, Tanjug has reported.

"Belgrade has reaffirmed itself as the major Balkan metropolis," Irish Times Travel reporter Fionn Davenport writes.

He noted the city's "Kalemegdan Citadel and its beauty that spreads outward."

DUBLIN - Belgrade is one of the 10 holiday spots to visit in 2015, as recommended by The Irish Times.

"Belgrade has reaffirmed itself as the major Balkan metropolis," Irish Times Travel writer Fionn Davenport says, noting specifically the city's Kalemegdan Citadel and its beauty that "spreads outward". More than anything the 'White City' is a place to experience, he says.

The Bulgarian Velizar Popov was appointed as the head coach of the Maldives men's national football team on Wednesday.

Popov was presented at a special ceremony prior to the beginning of the President Cup's final, daily Dnevnik reports.

The Bulgarian is well-known in the Maldives, where he coached the New Radiant Sports Club between 2012 and 2013.

Bulgaria has climbed up 6 places in the 2015 Index of Economic Freedom compared to the previous year, currently ranking between Hungary and Oman.

The adoption of a human rights declaration by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that was designed to shield wealthy Gulf monarchies, including 2022 World Cup host Qatar, from criticism by human rights and trade union activists is likely to increase pressure on the sports-focused Gulf state to significantly alter its controversial migrant labor system.

The outcome of the debate about the invitation extended to Jordan and Morocco to attend the Gulf Cup will serve as one more indicator of the balance of power among the Gulf states Wealthy Gulf states have invited Jordan and Morocco to compete in future Gulf Cups as part of a bid to strengthen their fragile six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), at a time when they have - at best - papered

BELGRADE - The Serbian delegation will harmonise and draft the agreements on airline transport with the U.S. and 13 more countries during the ICAO Air Services Negotiation Event (ICAN) in Indonesia, which will make room for network expansion of Serbia's national airline company Air Serbia.

Gulf leaders agreed Nov. 16 on the return of Saudi, Emirati, and Bahraini envoys to Qatar after an extraordinary meeting in Riyadh, promising an end to eight months of tense relations.
      

The United States and Iran began high-level talks in Oman Nov. 9 ahead of a looming deadline for a deal on Tehran's nuclear programme, with both sides under pressure at home.