News archive of August 2017

Milos Vazura - the general director of Serbia's reigning football champions Partizan FC - has been found guilty of illegal carrying of weapons - i.e., a pistol.

Consequently, a Belgrade court has ordered Vazura to pay RSD 400,000 (some EUR 3,350 as of Aug. 31) in fines, that will go toward humanitarian purposes.

There will be an admission-free screening of Terrence Malick's romantic drama "Days of Heaven," hailed as an ode to America at the turn of the 20th century, at the Great Lawn of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on Friday, September 1, starting at 8.30 p.m.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel informed European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Aug. 30 that her country would veto an update of the Customs Union agreement with Turkey, daily Hürriyet has learned.

One day before their meetings in Berlin, Merkel announced they will convey the German government's position to Juncker regarding the Customs Union issue.

This is the horrific moment two young cousins were forced to dig their own grave before being shot and set on fire.
Sick murderers filmed the horrifying build up and aftermath of the execution of Wagner da Rosa, 17, and Victor da Rosa, 22, in Brazil.
The youngsters were held at gunpoint by a rival gang in Porto Alegre after being captured by the thugs.

A toxic combination of decreasing rainfall, the abandonment of rural areas and an increase in water consumption over the past few decades has resulted in more than half the island of Cyprus being in immediate danger of desertification. Just 1.5 percent of the land area - the ridge of the Troodos mountain range - is not deemed to be at any such risk.

SOCCER: Panayiotis Retsos has become the most expensive player ever to leave the Greek league, as Bayer Leverkusen has forked out a reported 22 million euros to acquire the 19-year-old Olympiakos defender.

At a joint press conference following their meeting in Skopje, the Foreign Ministers of Greece and Macedonia on Thursday said their discussions focused mainly on ways to revive stalled talks on Macedonia's name - which Greece disputes - possibly this autumn.

A 37-year-old Afghan male - whose initials are R.H. - has been arrested in the asylum center in Bogovadja, near Lajkovac, in western Serbia.

The suspect has been placed in police custody after he "threw his 22-year-old (female) cousin through the window" of the facility, Serbian media reports said on Thursday.

Greece are leading Iceland (37-33) in their Group A opening match for the 2017 Eurobasket championship in Finland.

At the retrial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, a witness said he and other Croat civilians were used as human shields during an attack on a village in 1991.