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Six people have been detained and their weapons seized in the southeastern province of Mardin after police raided two separate homes in the K?z?ltepe district, upon intelligence that they were planning to assassinate a number of public officials including judges, prosecutors and the local district governor.

A group of masked people set a public bus on fire in Istanbul's Ata?ehir district late July 29. No casualties were reported.

The group set the bus ablaze, throwing Molotov cocktails after they stopped it in Ata?ehir's Mustafa Kemal neighborhood and asked its passengers and driver to evacuate around 10:30 p.m. on July 29.

Russia will start construction of its own Mistral-class amphibious assault ships in 2020, a Defense Ministry source has told a Russian news website.

It will take three to four years for Russia to build such a vessel after Moscow renounced a EUR 1.2 B deal with France to buy two ships, Lenta.ru quotes the source as saying.

Police officers on duty in the town of Nis in southern Serbia, who until recently carried only pistols, are now armed with automatic rifles, local media report.

Citizens who saw officers with the Zastava-manufactured M70AB2 rifles - "modeled after the Kalashnikov" - are worried and are contacting the local media outlet Juzne Vesti, inquiring about the change.

Bulgarian Economy Minister Bozhidar Lukarski assured on Saturday that the country does not export and does not allow for weapons to be exported from its territory to Syria.

The three US citizens injured near Bulgaria's Anevo were in fact sent on a mission to test weapons that would then be sold to the Syrian opposition, Reuters reported.

The arms allegedly were going to be used for anti-IS efforts in the region accoridng to an anonymous US military source.

A US citizen has passed away after the explosion at the military polygon Anevo, as reported by BGNES.

During the incident additional two more Americans and two Bulgarians have been injured. The life of one of the people injured is currently in danger. Everyone has now been taken to the local hospital.

Severe clashes took place in Milan between groups of young protesters who burned down cars with Molotov cocktails and police and riot forces, after the end of the Expo 2015 show.

According to Italian news sources, around 300 young individuals, wearing hoods, burnt down many cars and Milanese shops.

BELGRADE - A Molotov cocktail was thrown at the family house of Pecat weekly's Editor-in-Chief Milorad Vucelic late on Tuesday, the weekly's editorial board said in a release on Wednesday, condemning the uncivilized act of vandalism.

Chaos in Athens last night as 'anti-state' activists turned the area around the National Technical University of Athens (Athens Polytechnic) into a war zone. Makeshift molotov bombs were thrown at police forces in the region.