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European Comission President Jean-Claude Junker on Wednesday announced that Socialist MEP Romania's Corina Cretu would be European Commissioner for Regional Politics in the new Commission.

Cretu will manage a total budget of about 350 billion euro for the period 2014-2020, which makes this portfolio one of the most important in the structure of the Commission.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Thursday paid homage to those killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks upon the United States and he called for action against those phenomena conducive to the spread of terrorism.

A 27-year-old man was to face a prosecutor on Monday after he allegedly admitted to posting messages threatening firefighters and police officers in the prefecture of Ilia, in the Peloponnese, on the social networking website Facebook.

A European Commission mission is on a visit to Bulgaria's Sofia this week on occasion of the mechanism for cooperation and verification report due to be released in January.

Experts will meet with Bulgaria's caretaker Minister of Justice, the Chief Prosecutor, as well as with members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC).

Ukrainian official claims 5 countries will send weapons

KIEV -- Ukraine will receive military advisers and weapons from the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Norway, says a Ukrainian official.

Four of the five countries mentioned, however, denied this.

"Arben, how is it possible that lessons about wars, tanks and jihad are better than lessons about nature, art, animals and sport?" Pranvera Zena wrote in a message to her husband posted on Facebook after he took their child to Syria.

Ukrainian forces ceded a strategic eastern airport to pro-Russian insurgents on Sept. 1 as the government in Kiev accused Moscow of launching a "great war" that could claim tens of thousands of lives.

Ukrainian troops on Sept. 1 were battling a Russian tank contingent in the eastern city of Lugansk, Kiev said, accusing Moscow's army units of moving into large cities in the region.

The United States has launched a social media offensive against the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, setting out to win the war of ideas by ridiculing the militants with a mixture of blunt language and sarcasm.

Diplomats and experts are the first to admit that the digital blitz being waged on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube will never be a panacea to combat the jihadists.

*President Traian Basescu sent a message to his Moldovan counterpart Nicolae Timofti on the Republic of Moldova Independence Day on Wednesday, stating that Moldovans' European aspirations, prosperity and true friendship will be his soul project.