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OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has said that recent attacks and threats against journalists in Albania are unacceptable.

Sasa Obradovic has said that proceedings before the Hague Tribunal (ICTY) take an excessive amount of time, in the context of the health of some indictees.

The Serbian government's legal representative was addressing a UN Security Council session when he called for the proceedings before the court to be concluded as soon as possible.

The police from Nis, in southern Serbia, have discovered 185 migrants in a freight train at the Popovac train station, the Interior Ministry (MUP) has said.

Among them were 137 citizens of Afghanistan, 26 Pakistanis, 19 Syrians, and three Iraqis.

Three masked persons armed with what turned out to be a plastic pistol and a knife on Tuesday stormed an elementary school in Belgrade's Kotez neighborhood.

They disrupted a 7th grade class and threatened the teacher with the weapons, snatching the gradebook from her.

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on Tuesday reiterated his proposal for army facilities in the southern Aegean to be made available for use by NATO units as part of the fight against terrorism.

Prosecutors have opened a case into 87 people, including four lawyers, for their participation in an allegedly illegal demonstration on the first anniversary of the Gezi protests in Ankara. 

Romania's presence with civil and military staff in peace-keeping missions is a confirmation of its commitment towards the UN Charter's values and principles, the Romanian Foreign Affairs minister, Bogdan Aurescu said on Friday, on the Blue Helmets International Day.

The Bosnian State Prosecution has charged Dusko Kornjaca with committing war crimes in Cajnice municipality in the eastern part of the country in 1992.

Turkey has been fined 54,000 euros by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for "excessive and disproportionate use of force" by security forces against 18 inmates in an Istanbul prison in 2000.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella, who is visiting Montenegro, has assessed that this country is ready for membership in NATO.

Mattarella on Tuesday added that he is confident Montenegro will get an invitation to join by the end of the year.