Political history

Vucic said the people arrested in Serbia following an alleged coup d'etat in Montenegro have nothing to do with politicians in either country, but had connections to a third country.

I recently asked Mustafa Ataş, the head of the organization of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), whether the government had run any drills for what would happen in the event of a coup d'état before the July 15 coup attempt. 

Former Serbian Gendarmerie commander Bratislav Dikic has said that - during his arrest on October 16 for planning a coup in Montenegro - a Montenegrin policeman "planted evidence" on him, namely a phone and keys to a warehouse containing weapons.

Dikic is under arrest in Montenegro for allegedly plotting a coup on election day in Montenegro.

Montenegro's special prosecutor for organized crime, Milivoje Katnic, on Thursday tried to convince the public that the state has firm evidence that a terrorist attack was planned for election day as doubts swirl over the official version of the event.

Over 13,000 applications have been made over the past decade for people to be cleared of Communist-era offences - the most controversial being a request to declare Nazi-allied leader Milan Nedic not guilty.

German police detained on Thursday two suspected jihadists in Berlin during a series of raids targeting possible Islamists.

The two men aged 28 and 46 are suspected of planning an attack, with some media reports suggesting that they were targeting the city of Dortmund.

the spokesman of the German Finance ministry, Martin Jaeger, sent a message to Greek government saying that Greece should fully implement its commitments to the third Memorandum adding that Athens has still a lot of work to do in order to get the 2 bln tranche.

“Of course Greece must implement the Memorandum” said Martin Jaeger to journalists during a press conference in Berlin.

The divisive Confederate flag came down on July 10 at South Carolina's legislature, drawing a line under a furor rekindled last month by the murder of nine black churchgoers by a young white supremacist.

Serbia’s president unveiled a statue of Princip, whose murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand helped to spark World War I, saying that the assassin tried to liberate Balkan countries from slavery.

A summer garden party was organized by the British Chamber of Commerce in Turkey (BCCT) to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England, in 1215, with the attendance of leading diplomatic and business community members.