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Google announced it's "Grow Greek TOurism Online" program, a project that aims to provide enterprises in Greek tourism with tools that can help boost their businesses over the summer season and beyond. The initiative has been taken to deal with the 70% increased demand for online vacation searches noted from June to September.

BELGRADE - Serbia and Macedonia will bid together in auctions for vaccine purchases Macedonia's Deputy Minister of Healthcare Jovica andovski has said, stressing that it will bring significant savings in the two countries' budgets.

PM "seeking alternatives to Russian gas, not to EU"

ZURICH -- Aleksandar Vucic has told a Swiss newspaper that "Serbia is seeking an alternative to Russian gas, not to EU (membership) as its strategic choice."

Zoran Zaev, head of the opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM, has called on people to join the party when it reveals what it promises will be the "most significant, most insolent and most outrageous examples" of electoral fraud committed by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his ruling VMRO DPMNE party.

Bulgarian authorities are commemorating on Tuesday the 72nd anniversary of Sofia's move to save thousands of Jews living on its territory from deportation during World War Two.

Macedonia revamps military

A recruitment drive started what Macedonian officials call the "rejuvenation of the army."

Macedonia is engaged in an effort to grow and modernise its military. [AFP]

Macedonia promises to have a fully modernised military in 2015.

KOPAONIK - Mt Kopaonik has hosted the Snowboard Europa Cup, with Yekaterina Kosova (Russia), Lea Jugovac (Croatia) and Angelina Milutinovic (Serbia) winning the women's Slope Style event, and Arturus Cukudre (Lithuania), Petar Gosharkov (Bulgaria) and Dusan Kriz (Czech Republic) the winners of the men's event.

The Voltaj band will represent Romania in the 2015 Eurovision contest with the song 'De la capat' (Over Again), after winning the national selection on Sunday night in Craiova (west of Bucharest).

Photo credit: (c) Ilie BUMBAC / AGERPRES FLOW

Voltaj got 24 points, with the specialized jury and public vote weighing 50 percent each.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias told his FYROM counterpart Nikola Poposki that Greece stands by its position on the long-standing name dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The two men met in Riga, Latvia, on Saturday on the sidelines of a two-day EU Foreign Ministers meeting that focuses on the war in eastern Ukraine.

The ruling VMRO DPMNE party has orchestrated massive electoral fraud during the past elections, using fictive voters, fake ID cards, pressure on individuals and firms and misuse of police and administration, the opposition Social Democrats claimed on Friday.