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BERLIN - Konstantin Samofalov, spokesperson of the New Democratic Party (NDS), which has seats in the Serbian parliament, has taken part in a conference organised by the ASPEN institute in Berlin, where the topics were the rule of law in the Western Balkans and the EU enlargement policy.

A joint operation between the police forces of Germany, Greece, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and the Czech Republic, supervised by Europol, led to the arrest of 38 people believed to belong to a European-wide ring producing and distributing forged passports and other identification documents.

Six of the arrests were made in Greece.

BELGRADE - International conference 'The future belongs to us: LGBT rights on the road to the European Union' opens on Friday at the Metropol Hotel in Belgrade.

In addition to long-standing issues such as discrimination, violence and hate speech, the two-day conference will also tackle the quality of social services and cooperation with social work centers.

BELGRADE - The Undertaker, a film by director and screenwriter Dragan Nikolic, has been nominated as the best European television documentary after featuring at thirty festivals to great acclaim, the producers announced.

Turkey has captured and deported 830 citizens of European countries attempting to cross into Syria to fight with the Islamist jihadists over the past two years.

Turkey has established specialist anti-terror teams focusing on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, who have seized large swathes of territory across neighboring Syria and Iraq.

The football match between Iceland and Turkey on Sept. 9 showed once again the problems of the Turkish way of dealing with sports, or even in life in general.

Caretaker Defense Minister Velizar Shalamanov has sent a letter to German counterpart Ursula von der Leyen to voice Bulgaria's willingness to join NATO's concept of "framework nations".

The move was announced by the Defense Ministry's press office.

One of the most visited locations in Antalya, the Father Christmas (Noel Baba) Museum in Demre, exceeded 85,000 monthly visitors for the first time this August.  

European Commission President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker unveiled the team on Wednesday that will run key areas of the European Union's policy-making over the next five years with a focus on economic growth, energy reforms, competition and trade.

BELGRADE - A military exercise involving over 1,100 telecommunications and IT specialists from 28 NATO and Partnership for Peace countries, including 25 Serbian Armed Forces members, is under way in Grafenwoehr, Germany.