Norway

The travel magazine Travel&Leisure presented postcard-perfect villages which still remain hidden preserving their beauty.

The first requirement of a beautiful village is a scenic location, whether among the Norwegian fjords or the sun-splashed Greek isles, the magazine says.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will take part in a conference on the migrant crisis in London on February 4, Tanjug said it learned from Vucic’s office.

According to the agency, he will travel there at the invitation of the German chancellor, the prime ministers of Britain and Norway, the Kuwaiti Emir and the UN secretary-general.

The challenges, problems and opportunities created by the refugee crisis will be the focus of the 15th meeting of the Transatlantic Council on Migration which will take place on Jan. 17-19 in Berlin with the participation of politicians, heads of organizations and researches from around the world.

Over 62,000 people in Romania have signed a petition in recent days asking for a fast and fair solution in a sensitive case involving a Romanian-Norwegian family whose five children were taken into care by the Norwegian authorities because of alleged mistreatment. 

Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said that the suicide bomber who killed at least 10 people in Istanbul on Tuesday was a foreign member of the Islamic State group, according to hurriyetdailynews.com.

Turkey's Dogan news agency reported that the suspect had been identified as Saudi-born Nabil Fadl?. 

An explosion occurred on January 12 in Istanbul’s touristic Sultanahmet neighborhood, killing 10 while wounding at least 15, as Istanbul governor’s office has announced.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Monday he was surprised by Croatia's announced acquisition of a missile system from Norway.

Nikolic made the comment during his meeting in Belgrade with Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

The Syrian conflict and its repercussions are set to dominate an annual gathering of Turkey's ambassadors that will be organized around the theme of "Crisis Management: Humanitarian Solutions."

The Bulgarian men's national football team dropped one position in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking released on Thursday.

At present, Bulgaria has 494 points and occupies the 72nd place between the teams of Israel and Uzbekistan.

The European Commission has adopted a package of cross-border cooperation programmes totaling EUR 1 B to back social and economic development in the regions on both sides of the EU's external borders.