News archive of December 2017

The U.S. will retrieve every weapon that could threaten Turkey from the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Pentagon said on Nov. 30.

An orange code warning for heavy rainfalls has been issued for 8 Bulgarian regions, according to the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology's website, quoted by Focus.

A Turkish passenger plane on Thursday made an emergency landing at Khartoum airport after a report on bomb threat, airport authorities said, Xinhua reported.

Boosted by her comfortable victory in the recent vote for the center-left leadership, Fofi Gennimata appears determined to occupy the political space eyed by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's ruling SYRIZA party.

Metin Topuz, an employee at the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul who had been arrested over his alleged links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), gave an additional testimony on Nov. 30, showing his communications with leading Gülenist figures.

Romanian activists braced on Friday for renewed anti-corruption protests, as authorities readied to mark the country's national day with military parades in several cities.

Declaring the northern Serb-run half of the town of Mitrovica as a free trade zone might help the reconciliation of ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo and stimulate the local economy at the same time, business leaders told BIRN, following Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli's invitation to his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic to consider the idea.

Legal experts in Macedonia say an ongoing investigation into 36 terrorism suspects may shed light on the masterminds, if they exist, behind the mob attack on parliament on April 27.

Be there when Christmas lights are switched on in Ljubljana! Following a short festive ceremony and an address by the Mayor of Ljubljana, all the city's festive lights will be turned on simultaneously.

The display is conceived as a visual intertwining of the stories of Slovenian collectors and of Slovenian Africans, which provide insight into the background and nature of the ties between Africa and Slovenia, whose origin dates back to the times of the former Yugoslavia.