News archive of March 2018

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on March 29 spoke over the phone with his counterparts in Serbia and Kosovo to discuss the recent detention of a Serbian politician in northern Kosovo, according to a presidential source.

US authorities have jailed Milan Trisic for 18 months for failing to state in his application for a green card that he had served in the Bosnian Serb forces that took part in the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995.

Turkey's demand for the extradition of a member of the outlawed far-leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C) was refused on March 29, by a court in the Greek town of Nafplio, according to a judicial source.

UEFA's ethics and disciplinary body has banned Albania's top soccer team Skenderbeu for ten years and fined it a million euros after finding it guilty of running a large-scale betting scam following a two-year investigation.

French President Emmanuel Macron promised 1.5 billion euros ($1.85 billion) of public funding into artificial intelligence by 2022 in a bid to reverse a brain drain and catch up with the dominant U.S. and Chinese tech giants, reported Reuters. 

Playboy issued a press release late Tuesday night to announce its withdrawal from Facebook. It has deactivated the Playboy accounts that Playboy Enterprises manages, directly affecting some 25 million fans, according to the company.

The Security Council with the Bulgarian government will hold a meeting on 30 of March to discuss the case with the Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and hear the Bulgarian Ambassador in Russia Boiko Kotsev, the government's press office said on 29th of March.

The Skripal case will be discussed at the meeting.

Saudi Arabia's crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al-Saud warned of the possibility of a military conflict with Iran in the coming 10-15 years.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the Crown Prince urged the international community for tougher sanctions against Tehran in order to avoid a military confrontation in the region.

(Reuters) - Rap artist and actor DMX was sentenced to one year in prison on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty in a federal case accusing him of dodging $1.7 million in taxes.

DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan. He pleaded guilty to one count of tax fraud in November.

President Donald Trump appeared to signal the withdrawal 'very soon" of U.S. troops from Syria on Thursday, surprising the Pentagon and State Department.