News archive of December 2016

Turkey and Russia will establish joint monitoring centers in the Eskişehir Main Air Base in Turkey and Hmeimim Air Base in Syria to closely follow the implementation of a cease-fire between the Syrian regime and opposition groups, a senior Turkish official has said. 

Gordana Medunjanin is a no-nonsense woman with military discipline that she passes on to her top recruits - the specially-trained dogs who detect mines and bombs all over the world.

State-run Anadolu Agency has visited Medunjanin's training center on the outskirts of the Serbian capital, Sarajevo, where the sound of dogs barking and yelping filled the country's frosty air. 

It is fair to describe Cem Mumcu as the writer of the human soul. His words and sentences in his essays depict the feelings, the ups and downs and sometimes disappointments that people face every day. Now, thanks to his artworks, which he has been creating for the past 15 years, his readers will discover more about him.

Authorities believe that Greece's missing ambassador to Brazil was killed at the home that his wife kept in the Rio de Janeiro area, a police investigator said Friday.

The self-proclaimed “conservative provocateur” Milo Yiannopoulos’ book is in the second place of the best-sellers in Amazon just 24 hours after its release was announced.

The backorders for his book “Dangerous” brought him above “Tools of Titans” and behind Carrie Fisher’s “The Princess Diarist” that died of a heart attack a few days ago.

BELGRADE - Kosovo's Supreme Court ordered retrial to doctors and officials convicted of organ trafficking in the period between 2006 and 2008, reports "Reuters". EULEX said it was disappointed by the decision of the court.

BELGRADE - The CNN is spreading 'false information' by reporting that Russia closed the Anglo-American School of Moscow in retaliation to a new set of US sanctions, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska is pictured on an election poster calling for votes for a referendum on their Statehood Day in Prnjavor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Photo: MFA

BELGRADE - Relations in the region definitely must be better, which is not hard to achieve as they are poor now, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said Friday, adding the door was open to dialogue with Croatia.

BANJALUKA - The Republika Srpska public broadcaster RTRS reported Thursday it had obtained secret orders issued by the Bosnia and Herzegovina Intelligence and Security Agency (OBA) for eavesdropping on Serbian officials.

The operation has been underway for five months, the report said, and the RTRS website published scans of OBA documents designated as secret.