Belarus

At a bilateral meeting with President Lukashenko, it was concluded that relations between Serbia and Belarus are friendly and that there are no outstanding issues, the Serbian government announced in a press release.

Belarus news agency BelTA said it learned this on Wednesday.

On the sidelines of the conference, Brnabic will meet with Belarus President and Prime Minister, Alexander Lukashenko and Syarhey Rumas, the Serbian government announced.

On November 1, Brnabic will be on a one-day visit to the United Kingdom, during which she will be the keynote speaker at the Blavatnik School of Governance at Oxford University.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday awarding the head of the Moldovan Church, Metropolitan Vladimir, Russia's Order of Friendship.

A new treatment for a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis can cure 80 percent of sufferers, according to a trial hailed Monday as a "game changer" in the fight against the global killer.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors implementation by States of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), will meet in Geneva from October 8 to November 2 to review Belarus, Belize, Bulgaria, Guinea, Sudan, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

The meetings will be webcast here and #CCPR124 will be the recommended hashtag for the meeting.

Serbia said on Tuesday it was not considering participating in a mooted peacekeeping mission in Ukraine after a US official said Belgrade was among a number of capitals willing to contribute.

Serbia's Defence Ministry has declined to respond to questions about whether Serbia will send peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine, as Kurt Volker, the US Special Representative for Ukraine, has suggested it will.

Romania's Ovidiu Ionescu secured a medal in the men's singles event of the 2018 ITTF-European Table Tennis Championships in Alicante (Spain), after qualifying for the semifinals.

IRUM Reghin is launching this fall, the year of the Greater Union's Centennial, the first 100 pct Romanian tractor, designed and made by the company's engineers, 15 years from the disappearance of the Romanian tractors' production, on Friday announced Mircea Oltean, the company's managing director.