News archive of August 2014

BELGRADE - Dr. Alban, famous Swedish musician and producer, will put on a concert in Belgrade's Freestyler Night Club on September 2.

The concert will be a lead-up to one of the top events of the year - The Best of 90's Festival, which will be held in the capital's Kombank Arena on October 11.

COMO - Serbian tennis player Viktor Troicki win the trophy at the Citta di Como Challenger tournament in Como, Italy, as he defeated Irish player Louk Sorensen in the final match on Sunday, 2-0 (6-3, 6-2).

Turkey’s top government officials will be absent at the opening of the judicial year, in protest at the scheduled speech of the Union of Bar Associations head The opening of the judicial year on Sept.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament adopted on Sunday three laws in the justice sector, which allow public notaries to begin their work as of September 1.

The adopted laws comprise the Law on signature, script and correspondence verification, the Law on real estate sale and the bill of amendments to the Law on court taxes. The three adopted laws will enter into force on Monday.

After the lone house in Istanbul’s popular Fikirtepe neighborhood, which made headlines after standing for months and refusing to settle with the municipality, another house now stands alone amid a vast urban transformation project in the Turkish capital.

The United States and the United Kingdom have spied on Turkey, German weekly magazine Der Spiegel has reported, citing documents provided by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Bulgaria has failed to cope with many of the problems identified 7 years ago, according to Geoffrey Van Orden, former Rapporteur for the country in the European Parliament.

MERDARE - Serbia will know how to protect its people and territory, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stated on Sunday during the visit to the Merdare base, adding that the Gendarmerie will get new equipment so that they could perform their tasks with maximum efficiency and with added protection.

Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel said he does not know the content of the road map of the peace process led by the Turkish government to end the 30-year-long Kurdish issue.

Israel downed a drone over the occupied Golan Heights on Aug. 31, the army said, amid mounting tension on the U.N.-patrolled armistice line with Syria on the strategic plateau.

Air defences "successfully intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that breached Israel airspace above the border with Syria," an army statement said.