News archive of September 2014

Elena Basescu, the youngest daughter of President Traian Basescu, was hospitalized on Tuesday afternoon at the University Hospital of Bucharest following a car accident in Charles de Gaulle Square.

Road Police officials told AGERPRES that another driver failed to give priority, and crashed their car into Elena Basescu's.

An elderly man died in Thessaloniki on Tuesday after collapsing at a bank while waiting in line to pay the ENFIA property tax, the Athens-Macedonia News Agency reported.

The unnamed man, believed to be aged around 70, was waiting in line with dozens of other people trying to pay their property tax before the deadline expires.

On the second day of closing arguments at Karadzic’s trial, the former Bosnian Serb leader was accused of leading a reign of terror over Sarajevo’s besieged population during wartime.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has underscored the need for an integrated European approach to refugee issues at an informal meeting of the Arraiolos Group in Braga, Portugal.

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Three teenage boys were taken into custody in Arta, northwestern Greece, on Tuesday following an uproar caused by a video posted on a social networking website allegedly showing them pouring flammable liquid onto a small dog and setting it alight.

The euro area seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 11.5% in August 2014, stable compared with July 2014, but down from 12.0% in August 2013, according to Eurostat.

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The National Press Agency AGERPRES launches on Wednesday (October 1) the editorial project 'FOREIGNER, IN LOVE WITH ROMANIA', publishing feature stories about people from all across the world for which Romania is already home.

Reports will be published at 11am on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in October.AGERPRES

BELGRADE - Milan Glisovic has been appointed new head of the Department for protection of certain individuals and facilities, the Serbian Interior Ministry released on Tuesday.

Glisovic was appointed by the decision of Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic at the proposition by Police Director Milorad Veljovic.

BELGRADE - Olja Beckovic, the author of the flagship political discussion show "Utisak Nedelje" (Impression of the Week) that ran on the privately-owned TV channel B92 with national coverage, has described the management's decision to take the show off air as political.

Some 369 Turkish workers employed by a Turkish firm in Libya returned to Istanbul late on Sept. 29