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A jury on Feb. 11 found a rookie New York police officer guilty of manslaughter in the 2014 fatal shooting of an unarmed black man -- an incident that fueled US protests against police tactics.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will brief the Security Council on Oct. 21 on his trip to the Middle East where he is seeking to defuse weeks of violence, diplomats said.

Bulgaria's Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) has refused to approve the IPO prospectus of Smart Organic AD, a producer and distributor of organic products.

The Bulgarian company will not appeal the decision or try to remove the alleged omissions and regularities, according to its majority owner, Yani Dragov, as cited by investor.bg.

The Taliban claimed Oct.2 to have shot down a US military transport plane in eastern Afghanistan in a crash that killed 11 people, as the battle for Kunduz raged after the emboldened militants briefly seized the city.

Volkswagen has admitted using the same fake emissions test in Europe as it used to falsify results in the US, the German transport minister announced on Thursday.
Volkswagen is the second massive German multinational to fall into the US federal government’s sights, after Siemens.

Russia and the United States launched military talks on the Syrian conflict on Friday as Moscow stepped up its buildup of forces in the war-torn country.
 
The phone conversation between Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter ended an 18-month freeze in military relations triggered by NATO anger over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis.

Serbia on Monday said that Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will visit the US this week to meet, among others, Vice-President Joe Biden and John Kerry, Secretary of State.

Vucic will also meet Christine Lagarde, IMF managing director, and Jim Yong Kim, the President of the World Bank.

Nine people were given suspended sentences ranging from five to ten months for setting fire to the US embassy in Belgrade during riots sparked by Kosovo’s independence declaration in 2008.

A Russian nuclear official pleaded guilty on Aug. 31 to a US charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering in a case involving $2.1 million in bribes for contracts with a Moscow-controlled company.

US President Barack Obama has unveiled a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants at home, international media outlets reported.

Whereas an earlier version of the plan required a 30% cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, compared to 2005 levels, the new version increases that target to 32%.