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This year's Belgrade Jazz Festival, 31st in a row, will be held in the Serbian capital from October 28 to November 1.

The festival will feature performances by artists from the United States, Japan, Turkey, Sweden, Norway, Puerto Rico and other corners of the globe.

Voting for the snap elections on Nov. 1 has started at Turkey's representatives in foreign countries and at border gates across the country. 

A total of 2,895,885 Turkish citizens living abroad are eligible to vote either at 112 foreign representative offices in 54 countries or at 30 customs gates on Turkey's borders and international airports. 

Norway is closing several diplomatic missions around the globe, its embassy in Bulgaria included, the country's government has said.

At the same time Oslo is boosting its diplomatic presence in other places such as Haiti and southern India.

A Norwegian man has been missing for six days in the touristic southern province of Antalya. 

The 75-year-old Tor Olav Lunde, who was last seen leaving his daughter?s house in the Alanya district of Antalya, did not return to the house after heading out for exercise.

Norwegian Air Shuttle hopes to start selling one-way tickets to Europe for $69 in 2017 by flying from U.S. airports that have low fees, Chief Executive Officer Bjørn Kjos said in an interview.

A session of the European Council for Justice and Home Affairs, JHA, scheduled for Thursday, will now not discuss the admission of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area, as a decision has been postponed to the end of the year.

Car-hiring service Uber has started a petition calling on users to stand up for its right to remain active in the Bulgarian market, its website shows.

It explains[BG] the petition could send a strong message to the government demanding that it that citizens say "yes" to innovations, new regulations, and the right to choose.

While participating in the High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly, in New York City, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias accompanied Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to meetings with the Presidents of China, Xi Jinpin; Egypt, Abdel Fatah Al Sisi; the Republic of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades; Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas; Brazil, Dilma Rousseff; and Equador, Rafael Correa. Mr.

Some 92 percent of the world's population lives in areas where a connection service of 2G or better is accessible, but four billion people still remain offline, according to a recent report.

Former Norwegian politician Thorvald Stoltenberg late on Thursday in Belgrade received the charter making him an honorary citizen of the Serbian capital.

Stoltenberg addressed the ceremony to say the day was very important for him because he received the award not only in his own name, but as a representative of thousands of his compatriots.