United Arab Emirates

Turkey's foreign trade deficit regressed to $4.11 billion in November with a 4.1 percent decline compared to the same month of 2015, data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) showed on Dec. 30. 

The country's trade gap declined to $50.4 billion in the first 11 months of the year, with an around 12 percent of drop compared to the same period of 2015, according to TÜİK data. 

Bulgaria has comfortably preferred to leave export of military output to third countries "unregulated," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has said.

And "we are not talking about pins and needles," but lethal products that can be used in any armed conflict in the world, Zakharova has added at a press briefing in Moscow.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic spoke with Mukl Holding Chairman Shaji Ul Mulk in Abu Dhabi Thursday to discuss cooperation on investments, including a 20 mln dollar investment that would create 100 new jobs at the company's Serbian plant.

ABU DHABI - Serbia will continue the successful cooperation with the United Arab Emirates, which will last for a long time to come, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said in Abu Dhabi Thursday at the opening of the Sheikh Zayed Heritage Festival, organised by the UAE Ministry of Presidential Affairs and the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation.

ABU DHAB - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Thursday arrived on a two-day working visit to the United Arab Emirates.

Nikolic was welcomed by Minister of State for Higher Education Ahmad Belhoul.

Iran's supreme court has upheld the death penalty against Iranian businessman Babek Zanjani for corruption, the judiciary said on Dec. 3, a sentence critics say will mask the identity of senior officials who supported him. 

A rising Fenerbahçe, which has won its last eight games, will host historic rival Beşiktaş on Dec. 3 looking to maintain an 11-year undefeated record in derby games.

Beşiktaş, meanwhile, is out to extend its unbeaten run in three competitions - the Spor Toto Super League, Champions League and the Ziraat Turkey Cup. 

As the Security Council held emergency talks on the fighting in New York, Syria's opposition urged the U.N. to take immediate steps to protect civilians.

A government offensive to retake all of Aleppo has pounded the city in recent days, with shelling of an opposition-controlled area reported to have killed at least 26 civilians.

Five Nobel prize winners, including Turkey's laureate Orhan Pamuk, called on Dec. 1 for urgent international action to protect world heritage sites from the destruction wrought by extremist groups and conflicts.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Thursday arrived on a two-day working visit to the United Arab Emirates.

Nikolic was welcomed by Minister of State for Higher Education Ahmad Belhoul.