News archive of February 2017

Holding banners reading "We accept refugees, isolate the fascists," demonstrators on Tuesday gathered outside Oraiokastro Town Hall to pledge solidarity with refugee children attending schools in the town near Thessaloniki.

The gathering was organized by the local women's association and members of the People's Committee of Oraiokastro, and also included a march through the town.

The Turkish authorities arrested and jailed the Die Welt correspondent Deniz Yucel last Monday charged for spreading propaganda for a terrorist organization, incitement to violence and incitement of hatred.

Maja Ledjenac, one of the 191 journalists at the TV station in Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina, told BIRN on Tuesday that their positions were uncertain because their contracts could not be transferred from RTV to a private consortium on March 1 as previously envisaged.

According to certain information, Hungary has begun constructing a second fence along the Serbian border to stop the thousands of migrants waiting there from entering.

An explosion occurred on Tuesday afternoon in the A28 ammunition depot of the Tehnicki Remontni Zavod in Kragujevac, central Serbia, that killed one person.

The Ministry of Defense announced this on Tuesday evening, adding that three more persons are listed as missing, while 25 members of the Serbian Army (VS) and the Interior Ministry (MUP) have been injured.

The Basic Court in Pristina on Tuesday ordered the release of Naser Kelmendi, the alleged Balkan drug baron, and said he should be put under house arrest.

Every medieval English monarch had to decide how to deal with prisoners of war. Ruling over territory that sometimes ran from the highlands of Scotland to the south of France, their authority rested on violence. Fighting the French, Scots, Welsh, Irish, or their own nobility in a string of civil wars, they could not have kept their throne without victories on the battlefield.

Members of the Communist Party-affiliated PAME labor union will hold a rally outside the Hilton Hotel in Athens on Wednesday in protest at the talks being held there between the representatives of Greece's international lenders and government ministers and technocrats.

U.S. President Donald Trump will ask Congress to boost Pentagon spending in the next fiscal year by $54 billion in his first budget proposal and slash the same amount from non-defense spending, including a large reduction in foreign aid.

Trump said he believes the extra $54 billion spending on the U.S. military would be offset by a stronger economy as well as cuts in other areas.