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The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution on Wednesday supporting Montenegro's accession to NATO, in a second attempt to push the Balkan's country membership bid.

The committee passed a resolution in December 2016, but the full Senate did not reach consensus on Montenegro before the end of the year.

The World Bank (WB) has upped its 2017 forecast for Serbia's GDP growth to 2.8 percent.

This is 0.5 percentage points higher compared to an initial June 2016 estimate.

Marinko Umicevic, director of the Banja Luka-based factory Bema, told BIRN on Wednesday that he had been having sleepless nights since receiving an invitation to one of the inauguration parties for new US President Donald Trump on January 20.

The US Senate is expected to vote on Wednesday on the ratification of the protocol on Montenegro's accession to NATO, which would mark the final step in the Balkan country's membership process. 

Protests have been held and petitions launched by members of the Albanian diaspora in several cities around the world, calling for the immediate release of guerrilla turned politician Ramush Haradanaj, who was arrested in France last week on a Serbian war crimes warrant.

The title might look like a far-fetched one. Also, I have not heard any piece of news or a hint from Washington. I am only looking at what U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is saying. Also I am looking at the incidents occurring in our region.

What I mean with the "here" in the title is the clashing area from Baghdad to Istanbul.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will become a senior White House adviser working on trade and the Middle East, transition officials said on Jan. 9, in a rare case of a close presidential family member taking a major job. 

One the same day as tense debates started in Turkey's parliament for a constitutional shift from a parliamentary to a presidential system to grant him more executive power, President Tayyip Erdoğan addressed U.S.

The turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on a statement he made on Monday he argued that the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will not make the same mistakes as the outgoing administration in relations with Turkey.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's economic and political strategies are likely to have a "mixed effect on Turkey" and it will be up to the Turkish administration to turn them into advantages, economist Fatih Keresteci has told the Hürriyet Daily News.