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The military alliance will continue using its armed forces to deter aggression, said NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu.

AP quoted her as saying that "Russian statements threatening to target allies are unacceptable and counterproductive."

The Specialist Chambers ("special court") for crimes committed in Kosovo in 1999 is interpreted to be a criminal court for the crimes committed by the KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army"), which is why it has been met with strong opposition from top political leaders in Pristina.

Nicosia will host the 9th Mediterranean Oil and Gas Forum 2018 on March 27 and 28.

Montenegrin police said on Thursday that the man who threw a grenade into the US embassy compound in Podgorica and then killed himself had no criminal record and that the attack was not an act of terrorism.

The US State Department also said on Thursday that it doesn't believe that an attack on the American embassy in Montenegro "is part of an ongoing threat".

The US State Department on Wednesday announced that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had "designated" Adriatik Llalla, 49, and his family as corrupt foreign officials, thereby banning Llalla from entering the country.

The US State Department has called on Greece and Turkey to use their regular diplomatic channels to resolve any disputes in the Aegean following an incident on Monday night, when a Turkish coast guard vessel rammed a Greek patrol boat off the Imia islets.

November 17 hitman Dimitris Koufodinas, who is serving 11 life sentences for his role in the extreme-left terrorist group, began a two-day furlough from prison on Friday, his second in three months.

He was greeted outside Athens's maximum-security Korydallos Prison on Friday morning by his partner, his son and a group of applauding supporters and friends.

Dacic was speaking in Washington DC on Friday for VOA, after his coversation with US State Department official Wess Mitchell and ahead of his meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Dacic said that the meeting with Mitchell was "effectively an introduction into the meeting with Tillerson" with whom he met recently in Vienna.

US and EU delegations discussed their cooperation on new technologies, including the development of the new 5G mobile communication format, the US State Department said on Thursday.

According to the information, the next round of talks in the bilateral dialogue on digital format cooperation took place on 1 February.

US President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech on Tuesday, which called for an end to the Diversity Visas program, has caused alarm in Romania.

The presidential call has made headlines there, raising fears that the program might be stopped in the autumn of this year.