Germany's Foreign Ministry

It is the second day in a row that people have demonstrated, angry at the results of Sunday's presidential vote. Security services claim to have foiled an attempt to assassinate the president's main election rival.

"That's nonsense, nobody's coming," Dacic told Belgrade daily Politika, Beta agency is reporting on Thursday.

Germany's Foreign Ministry has warned its citizens thinking of traveling to Turkey that they risk arbitrary detention even in Turkish resort areas, Voice of America reports. The hardening of the travel advisory follows detentions of Germans by Turkish authorities that are considered by Berlin to have been politically motivated.

Germany's Foreign Ministry says envoys from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will meet this week in Berlin to try and push forward the implementation of a peace deal for eastern Ukraine, Voice of America reported.

Germany's Foreign Ministry has said it has been granted consular access to arrested German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel.

Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer said on May 17 that consular officials will visit Die Welt reporter Yücel in Istanbul's Silivri prison on May 18 for a second time since his arrest earlier this year.

The European Union should not freeze Turkey's negotiations to join the bloc, Germany's Foreign Ministry said on Nov. 25, a day after members of the European Parliament voted in a non-binding motion in support of such a freeze.

"It is important that we keep talking," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Sawsan Chebli told a regular government news conference. 

The cabinet of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic late on Tuesday reacted to statements made by German politician Michael Roth, a Belgrade daily writes.

Tensions peaked between Greece and Germany on Wednesday after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras renewed Greek demands for war reparations from Berlin for Nazi war crimes and statements by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble were perceived by authorities in Athens as offensive.

Detlef Lingemann, the German Ambassador to the Czech Republic, is the successor to outgoing Matthias Hoepfner, who represented the country in Bulgaria, reports say.

The information came from the website Dnevnik.bg, which quoted Germany's Foreign Ministry as confirming his appointment.