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BELGRADE - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel presented Serbian Consul General in Chicago Dejan Radulovic with a resolution to mark the tenth anniversary of twinning between Belgrade and Chicago.

'The Last Tram' by Nedim Gürsel, translated by Ruth Whitehouse (Comma Press, $15, 184 pages)

Russia and the United States have engaged in a war of words over the tension in Ukraine, but U.S. President Barack Obama's remarks putting the fight against Islamists in the focus of his Syria policy have been welcomed by Moscow.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced at his annual press conference on Wednesday that Moscow relies on the fact that the Turkish Stream project will be realized, which will allow for the strengthening of energy security in Europe.

Lavrov stated that the issue with South Streamis concluded, TASS news agency reports.

Bulgaria will demand measures in support of all dairy producers in the EU at the official meeting of the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council to be held on 26 January.

This course of action was approved on Wednesday by the Bulgarian government.

Fresh clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels rocked Donetsk in the country's war-torn east Jan. 21, killing at least five civilians and wounding 29 others ahead of high-stakes peace talks, officials said.
      

The governance program prepared after the cabinet was formed in November and a new bill on energy efficiency are on the agenda of Wednesday's cabinet meeting, officials say.

Austrian police have arrested a 44-year-old Russian national wanted for six counts of murder.

Aslan G., the alleged head of a Russian organized crime ring involved in the murders of politicians and senior officials, was arrested at Vienna's main train station on Saturday, according to reports of Die Presse and Der Standard.

He did not resist arrest.

There has been heavy fighting in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk as government forces have launched a counter-attack on the pro-Russian separatists.

Government spokesman said that the army has retaken most of the area surrounding the airport, which is of highly symbolic and strategic value, the BBC reports.

The foreign ministers of the 28 European Union (EU) member states are meeting in Brussels on Monday to discuss the increasing terrorist threat Europe is faced with.

The meeting comes after anti-terrorist raids were carried out in Belgium, Germany and France last week during which twenty people were arrested, the BBC reports.