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BELGRADE - Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has received an invitation from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to attend the 13th UN conference on crime prevention through criminal law.

The 2022 World Cup final in Qatar will be played on December 18, Qatar's National Day.

The decision was ratified at a meeting of Fifa's executive committee in Zurich on Thursday, according to reports of the BBC News.

The 2022 edition of the tournament will be the first ever winter World Cup.

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has changed the name of the 3.5-kilometer long ??stinye Bay?r?? Street where the posh mall ?stinye Park is located into ?Qatar Street.? At the municipal assembly, despite the objections of the opposition party members, the name ?Qatar Street? was approved with the votes of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) members.

The 40th International Jewelry Show kicked off March 12 in Istanbul, bringing together jewelry industry professionals and purchasers from around the world.

The Montenegrin government has great expectations of foreign investment in tourism this year, as development projects started in 2014 undergo expansion.

The government's programme of economic reforms in tourism, which BIRN has seen, expects more than 250 million euro in tourist-related investment in 2015.

Talks aimed at pulling Yemen out of crisis are open to the Shiite Huthi militia which seized power in Sanaa last month, Qatar's Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiyah said on March 12.
      

The emir of Qatar on March 12 met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an for surprise talks in the capital Ankara, a Turkish presidential official said.        

Bulgaria ranks 42nd in the latest edition of the How Active are Retailers Globally? survey of global property adviser CBRE.

The survey examines the most popular destinations for global retailers in 2015.

Bulgaria ranks 42nd out of 60, sharing a place with Qatar, Kuwait, and Estonia.

The Gaza Strip's sole power plant has halted production, the Hamas-run energy authority said Thursday, following a dispute with the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority over fuel tax.
      
Hamas pays the PA for fuel imported to besieged Gaza, but is short of cash and had been unable to cover the additional costs in tax.
      

A day before meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia?s new King Salman met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, in a move that none of the parties want to correlate with a U.S.-supported move by the Saudis to form an anti-Iranian, Sunni front in the region.