Veto

Bulgaria is by no means a presidential republic, but a parliamentary one, and yet the presidential elections kick up a great deal of fuss.

With the vote coming on November 06, it is worth explaining why.

NEW YORK - Former Serbian FM Vuk Jeremic, Belgrade's candidate for the new UN secretary-general, finished second in Wednesday's sixth round of the informal secret ballot in the UN Security Council behind former Portuguese PM Antonio Guterres, who is now set to succeed South Korea's Ban Ki-moon.

BELGRADE - Saudi Arabia has condemned a U.S. law allowing families of victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks to sue the kingdom for damages, calling it a matter of "great concern," RFE/RL reports.

BELGRADE - The United States is at risk of facing retaliatory measures, if the US Congress overrides presidential veto for a bill allowing families of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks' victims to sue Saudi Arabia, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan said at the Aspen Institute on Wednesday.

Congress on Sept. 28 overwhelmingly rejected U.S. President Barack Obama's veto of legislation allowing relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, the first veto override of his presidency, just four months before it ends. 

Bulgaria's Parliament rejected on Wednesday the presidential veto on disputed changes to election rules concerning the opening of polling stations abroad.

The veto imposed by President Rosen Plevneliev last week was rejected by 135 members of the 240-seat National Assembly.

If Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev doesn't veto much disputed changes to the Electoral Code, the Consultative Council with National Ombudsman Maya Manolova will consider filing a complaint with the Constitutional Court, Manolova has said.

Members of the parliamentary committee for oversight of the security services backed on Tuesday the recent veto imposed by Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev on the controversial amendments to the Military Intelligence Act.

Russian veto on British resolution on Srebrenica

The British draft resolution on Srebrenica has not been adopted by the United Nations Security Council, because Russia vetoed it.

Earlier in the day, Russia suggested that the document should not be put up for a vote at all.

The Greek parliament adopted a "humanitarian crisis" bill on Wednesday, the first package of social measures put forward by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' radical left-wing government.