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All United Nations Security Council resolutions related to Iran's nuclear programme will be lifted immediately if a final deal is agreed, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on April 4, stressing the benefits to Iran of this week's negotiations.
   

The crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 in France has heaped intense pressure on Lufthansa's CEO Carsten Spohr, who in less than a year at the helm has had to grapple with weak earnings, labor unrest and tough competition from lower-cost carriers.
                   

Emblematic radio producer Paul Grigoriu died on the evening of April 3, the National Radio Broadcaster announced.

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BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Friday that his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier will pay a visit to Serbia on April 28.

"This is our most important foreign policy activity in April," Dacic said at a regular monthly press conference.

Six people who hid in a supermarket refrigerator during January's Islamist attacks in Paris have sued French media for broadcasting their location live during the siege.
      

The 32rd International Ankara Music Festival, organized by the Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation, will open on April 4. The festival will present more than 500 artists from 16 countries in 19 concerts through April 30. 

The EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini announced on Thursday that the basis for an agreement for a peaceful Iranian nuclear programme and a lifting of sanctions against Tehran has been reached.

"We have reached solutions on key parameters of a joint comprehensive plan of action," Mogherini said after eight days of talks in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Serbian "cyber criminal" imprisoned, ordered to pay millions

A Serbian citizen has been sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of USD 17 million by a U.S. court.

Milos Vujanic was accused of "cyber crime" and arrested in France in 2012. In April of last year he was extradited to Texas.

Greek Cyprus has made it a crime to deny the Ottoman Turks committed genocide against Armenian Turks a century ago, a move likely to rile its old rival Turkey as peace talks on the ethnically-split island remain stalled.

The UEFA European Under-17 Championship will be opened with a football match between the teams of Bulgaria and Croatia.

This was determined by the draw, which took place on Thursday in the Bulgarian town of Pomorie, the website of UEFA reports.

The opening game of the tournament, which will be held in Bulgaria between May 6 and 22, will take place in Stara Zagora on May 6.