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Serbia to play Spain, Germany, Turkey at FIBA EuroBasket
PARIS - The Serbian men's national basketball team has been drawn to play in EuroBasket 2015 Group B in Berlin, and will take on Spain, Turkey, Italy, Iceland and hosts Germany.
The draw ceremony took place at Disneyland Paris on Monday.
EU presses for accountability, opening rift at UN climate talks
European Union insistence on a right to challenge nations about their plans for fighting climate change, in the run-up to a United Nations summit in 2015, opened a rift at U.N. climate talks in Lima on Dec. 9.
Chios mastic know-how makes UNESCO list
The know-how of cultivating mastic, the aromatic resin of an evergreen that grows on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, has been included by UNESCO on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
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Dacic: OSCE chairmanship - great challenge
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said on Sunday that Serbia's OSCE chairmanship starting as of January 1 is a great challenge, but also a chance for Serbia to show that it could play the role of a fair mediator in peaceful resolution of conflicts.
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Senior Turkish diplomat to chair OECD’s Executive Committee
Senior career diplomat Mithat Rende of Turkey has been elected as chair of the Executive Committee of the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Foreign Ministry has announced.
Ambassador Rende has been serving as the head of Turkeyâs Permanent Delegation to the OECD since the summer of 2013.
UN chief hoping for draft of global climate deal
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Dec. 4 he will travel to the climate conference in Peru next week and is hopeful that delegates will draft an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.
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MAE: ForMin Aurescu invited by his French counterpart to pay visit to Paris
Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bogdan Aurescu, on Wednesday met with his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius, on the sidelines of the international informal conference on ISIL taking place in Brussels, reads a release of MAE to AGERPRES.
Troika's talks with Greece are continuing, says European Commission
There was no indication from the European Commission on Monday as to whether the troika has accepted the proposal sent by Greece on Sunday morning with the aim of unblocking stalled negotiations.
Clock ticking, UN climate talks resume in Lima
Negotiators from more than 190 countries get together Dec. 1 in Lima for the last main stop of the U.N. climate negotiations on the road to a planned global warming deal in Paris next year.
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Sofia Declared UNESCO City of Film - Report
Sofia has been declared a UNESCO City of Film.
The City of Film program is part of UNESCO's Creative Cities Network.
The new cities were announced by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova in Paris.
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