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Famous Croatian writer Edo Popovic, whose mother passed away of ALS, slammed the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, reports Index.hr.

He writes on his Facebook profile that he was saddened that this serious condition was turned into a reality circus. 

According to fellow columnist Nuray Mert, “millet,” a word used a lot by President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, could mean “people.” That would make Turkey a People’s Republic like China. Since I recently spent two weeks there, I can tell you that the two countries are actually quite similar.

Prime Minister Vctor Ponta wishes "Happy Birthday!" to the Ukrainian people, on the occasion of the Independence Day, also assuring them of the entire Romania's and the EU's support.

August 23, 1944, was neither an act of treason nor the start of Romania's becoming a communist country, as it is attempted to be presented, it is our contribution to ending a devastating war, which took tens of millions of human lives, Prime Minister Victor Ponta says in a post on Facebook on Saturday.

A Syrian source close to the Islamic State told Reuters that the militants had been tipped off to the July 4 operation when Americans were seen asking about the hostages in the Turkish city of Antakya

Actually it’s not a novelty to answer a challenge by either paying $100 or dumping a bucketful of water on your head. In addition, it is not even related to ALS.

Initially, some American sportsmen started this tradition with an ice bucket. When the 29-year-old baseball player Pete Frates was diagnosed with ALS in 2012, he turned this ice tradition into an awareness campaign.

 Turkey has also caught up with the global trend of the “ice bucket challenge,” with politicians and business supremos joining the fun with the aim of raising awareness of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Romanian super middleweight world boxing champion Lucian Bute will make a comeback to the ring on December 6, almost one year since the defeat by points suffered before Canadian Jean Pascal, as he has announced he will take part in a supergala in Montreal.

Ukraine's military on Thursday said its forces in the east of the country had captured two Russian armoured vehicles with documents linking them to an elite army paratrooper unit.
      
"Ukrainian soldiers captured two armoured vehicles of Russia's Pskov Airbourne division in a battle near Lugansk," said security spokesman Andriy Lysenko at a briefing.
      

A deal to sell steroids gone wrong appears to have been the reason for the murder of two bodybuilding fanatics, aged 25 and 26, whose bodies were found on Tuesday in a ravine on the outskirts of Kalamata in the Peloponnese, Kathimerini understands.