News archive of November 2017

Instead, Grabar-Kitarovic continued, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) were "attacked by Milosevic's Serbia" and "the so-called JNA (Yugoslav People's Army)" - and these, according to her, are "notorious facts."

"Croatia did not attack anyone," the president said.

The suicide of Bosnian Croat military chief Slobodan Praljak at the Hague Tribunal diverted attention from his verdict, but the testimonies of war victims show how serious his crimes were.

European lawmakers on Thursday adopted a resolution by 539 votes to 13, with 81 abstentions, condemning the ongoing violence in Yemen and urging EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini to impose an EU arms embargo against Saudi Arabia, given the serious allegations that the Gulf state is breaching international humanitarian law.

The deadline for the submission of binding offers for the 66 percent controlling stake in gas grid operator DESFA has been put off from December 22 to January 2018.

State sell-off fund TAIPED accepted a request to that effect submitted by candidate investors last week, as they want more time to prepare their offers.

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said he received documents purportedly revealing off-shore bank transactions of relatives of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from “patriotic officials.”

This year’s Sign of the City Awards (SotCA) on Nov. 28, the real estate industry’s most prestigious competition, was bigger than ever, with new projects in the areas of “conservation and maintenance of cultural heritage” and “transportation and infrastructure” entering the competition for the first time.

Denmark passed a law on Thursday that could allow it to ban Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from going through its waters, Reuters reported.

Greek authorities on Thursday said they have moved a few hundred asylum seekers from the island of Lesbos to the mainland in an effort to ease overcrowding in its camps, Ekathimerini reported.

A Turkish Airlines jet carrying 107 passengers from Nairobi to Cairo made an emergency landing in Khartoum on Nov. 30 after a passenger reported a bomb threat, a Sudanese aviation official said.

Praljak was one of the leaders of Bosnian Croats during the 1990s war convicted of war crimes by the tribunal.

He died in the hospital shortly after reportedly "taking poison" in the courtroom - during the reading of the Appeals Chamber verdict, that also declared Croatia's state leadership of the time complicit in a joint criminal enterprise targeting Muslims in Bosnia.