News archive of November 2017

Ukrainian Ambassador to Belgrade Oleksandr Aleksandrovych says Russia is "using Serbia to create chaos and provoke a new war in the Balkans."

He also said that Russian President Vladimir Putin "does not care for Serbia" - but rather uses our country as "another instrument to destroy Europe."

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Wednesday expressed condolences to his American counterpart Donald Trump over a suspected terrorist attack in New York City on Tuesday night that left eight people dead.

Six Balkan countries - Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria - have been ranked among the top 50 countries in the world in the Doing Business Report of the World Bank for 2018, released on Tuesday.

Macedonia is the highest performing Balkan economy, ranked in 11th place among 190 economies worldwide in terms of quality of its business regulations.

There are mountains, mountains and more mountains. And peaks, slopes, gorges and cliffs, not to mention the rapids, rivers, streams, waterfalls, lakes and forests. In Evrytania the absolute master was, is, and will always be the physical landscape.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic says the Hague Tribunal (ICTY) has not been unbiased, and that Serbia "fared the worst."

Brnabic said she was referring to the overall convictions, and the number of those who died in the tribunal's custody.

The authorities of Madagascar urged citizens to give up the ritual of Famadihana, which is a dance of the dead, because of the plague epidemic.

Police said that they have matched the DNA of a 29-year-old man accused of sending several letter bombs to foreign and Greek targets to DNA found on remnants of a device that exploded in the hands of former prime minister Lucas Papademos in May and on similar devices intercepted by police at a Hellenic Post sorting center near Athens in March. 

Libyan Coast Guard said today that it has encountered two inflatable boats with 299 African migrants, including 40 women and 19 children, in the Mediterranean east of Tripoli, an Israeli press reported.

A good sense of humour goes a long way and apparently, this applies even when you have reached the end of the road and there is no other place to go to…

Some people decided that friends and relatives crying over their grave just wouldn’t be something they’d like as an image.

So, this is what they came up with…

The Transport and Infrastructure Ministry has banned all trucks from using auxiliary highways and old national highway networks in a move it says is intended to increase safety and improve policing but which critics claim is aimed at raising revenues by forcing trucks to use toll roads.