News archive of November 2016

Greece's official lenders are likely to offer it short-term debt relief by the end of this year, the head of the eurozone's bailout fund said on Tuesday.

Klaus Regling, head of the European Stability Mechanism, told reporters that there was progress in talks.

A parrot has been left trapped in a news agency that was shut down over its alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Agency (PKK) after Turkish authorities shuttered the office even though the bird remained inside.

A company which was declared last week to be the true owner of the Sultanahmet Köfte (meatball) brand has asked a rival company to remove signboards with the name of Sultanahmet Köfte from its 200 branches around the company.

Elit Gıda, which belongs to the Tezçakın family, won a court case over Sultanahmet Gıda Sanayi over the rights to use the name Sultanahmet Köfte.

Croatian authorities have arrested four Bulgarians with 47.7 kilogrammes of heroin at the Bayakovo border cross checkpoint with Serbia, announced the head of Criminal Police in Vukovar Mario Karamatic.

The Bulgarians were detained on October 29. They were travelling in a KIA vehicle with Bulgarian registration. The police discovered 90 packages of heroin.

The remonstration by the Greek Foreign Ministry regarding the seizure of Greek properties in Albania, lead to Albanian PM Edi Rama uploading an outrageous and unhistorical post on his Facebook page concerning Athens and its inhabitants.

Around 220 African migrants forced their way through a fence between Morocco and the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta Oct. 31, clashing with police in an incident that injured 35, officials said.

The woman at the center of the snowballing political scandal engulfing President Park Geun-Hye has been put under emergency detention after prosecutors said she was "unstable" and a flight risk.

The United Nations' humanitarian chief says that if the warring parties in Yemen do not reach a peace agreement soon, the country could collapse with menacing consequences for the entire region, while the U.N. envoy for Yemen said both parties in the conflict had rejected his peace plan but he would return back to try to clinch a peace deal in the coming weeks.

Many in the West are more nervous about the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue than the Serbs or the Albanians are, says Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic.

"And I do not know why, as we must speak to each other and solve problems, which is what we are doing," he added.

The Saudi secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) resigned on Oct. 31 for health reasons, according to a statement from the organization.

Iyad Madani, 70, had held the post since 2014. A statement by the IOC said Saudi Arabia had nominated Yusuf al-Othaimeen, a former minister of social affairs, as his replacement, Reuters reported.