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Unemployment Falls to 11.2% in May, Bulgarian Employment Agency
Bulgaria's National Employment Agency has registered an 11.2% unemployment rate in May, which is 0.6% lower than the April figure.
This is the second consecutive month when the rate falls, after it stood at 12.2% during the January – March period, Investor.bg reported. However, compared to the same time last year, it is 0.2% higher.
Bosnian Serb Soldiers Deny Kotor Varos Rape
Former Bosnian Serb servicemen Bosiljko and Ostoja Markovic both pleaded not guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl in the Kotor Varos area in June 1992.
Djuric visits Oliver Ivanovic in detention
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric visited leader of the Citizens Initiative 'Serbia, Democracy, Justice' Oliver Ivanovic in the Kosovska Mitrovica detention unit on Wednesday.
Displaced Serbs vote for Serbian list
PRISTINA - Over 9,000 Serbs voted mainly for the Serbian list in the recent Kosovo elections.
A total of 12,990 ballots arrived from central Serbia, of which around 9,500 ballots passed the second ring of examination, the Frankfurt-based Serbian language daily Vesti reported.
Serbs remove barricade on Ibar bridge in Mitrovica
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Early on Wednesday, the citizens removed the barricade on the northern side of the main bridge over the Ibar River in Kosovska Mitrovica.
The barricade was removed with the use of trucks and heavy machinery.
No incidents were reported during the removal, which lasted nearly three hours.
Dacic commends assistance of OSCE Mission in Kosovo
BELGRADE – Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met with the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jean-Claude Schlumberger, in Belgrade Wednesday.
The officials discussed activities of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a release.
KFOR: Serbs voluntarily remove barricade
KFOR: Serbs voluntarily remove barricade
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- During the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, citizens removed a barricade on the northern side of the main bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica, Tanjug reported.
Serbs voluntarily decided to remove the barricade, KFOR spokesman Angelo Morcella said today.
ISIS-Led Militants Take Over Iraq's Biggest Oil Refinery
Islamist insurgents invaded the Baiji oil refinery, the biggest such facility in Iraq, as they are pushing toward the capital Baghdad after having seized a number of cities.
Some 75 percent of Baiji, located 210 km north of Bagdad, is now under the control of militants led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), as the BBC reports citing officials.