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The appeals court upheld the verdict convicting ten former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, including Sylejman Selimi, of crimes against civilians during the 1998-99 conflict.

Politicians assigned to the southeastern and eastern regions of Turkey may be provided with weapons licenses, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said, commenting on the recent murders of politicians from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The government has decided to recruit 5,000 additional village guards in a bid to combat the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) east and southeast Anatolia, daily Habertürk has reported.

Ten soldiers and five civilians were killed on Oct. 9 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) suicide bomb attack targeting a military road checkpoint in the Şemdinli district of the eastern province of Hakkari, the Hakkari Governor's Office has announced, revising the previous civilian death toll to five.

Daily Hürriyet has accessed details shedding light on events concerning the prime suspect of the July 15 coup attempt, Adil Öksüz, and the Akıncı military base from which the coup attempt was orchestrated.

THE HAGUE - David Schwendiman, lead prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers - set up to try crimes committed by the "Kosovo Liberation Army" - held in The Hague on Thursday his first press conference since his appointment.

He declined to speculate on the number of future indictments and on when they will be raised.

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo head Marko Djuric says he hopes a new court would help rid the Kosovo public scene of people responsible for crimes.

THE HAGUE - David Schwendiman, lead prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers - set up to try crimes committed by the "Kosovo Liberation Army" - held in The Hague on Thursday his first press conference since his appointment.

He declined to speculate on the number of future indictments and on when they will be raised.

The chief prosecutor at the new special court set up to try former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters for crimes during and after the war promised he would conduct his investigations fearlessly and independently.

A 40-year-old police sergeant in northern Greece has been arrested after authorities found four bags of cannabis weighing a bit over 124 kilos in his car trailer.

During a search of his home, investigators also found two Kalashnikov rifles, ammunition, a sword and other weapons.