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Two US congressmen have nominated Natasa Kandic and the Humanitarian Law Center NGO for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Voice of America reported this on Thursday.

The nomination was submitted by US Congress Helsinki Commission Chairman Senator Roger Wicker and Representative Eliot Engel, ranking member of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

An emergency situation has been declared along the Gulf of Mexico in the United States because of Hurricane Nate, who has reached the Mississippi River Delta and southern Louisiana, the BNR said.

Messages from the front lines of war or from soldiers currently fighting were, and still are, sent home on a regular basis. Some of these come with hidden coded messages about enemy activities and some are just messages of love and support from a husband to a wife.

Aleksandar Vucic on Monday opened a 5.6-kilometer-long stretch of the Corridor 10 highway from Grabovnica, near Leskovac, to Grdelica.

The prime minister spoke during the ceremony to say that works on a highway "from the Macedonian border and Presevo to Subotica or to Sid" will be completed by this time next year, Tanjug reported.

A Turkish man extradited from Iraq in a U.S. military contract bribery case has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.

Metin At?lan also was fined $1 million and given five years' probation.