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By Stathis Kousounis

Air arrivals from abroad during the first couple of months of the year posted a much higher growth rate than in rival destinations such as Spain, Turkey and Cyprus.

In the latest sign a nuclear deal between world powers and Iran is imminent, British foreign minister Philip Hammond said March 27 he was ready to join the talks this weekend.
     
Hammond, speaking to reporters on a visit to Washington, said the deal was close but that it was not clear how it would be presented or whether there would be a written accord.
      

BELGRADE - Initiative group of journalist-participants of the international conference on the protection of safety and integrity of journalists in the OSCE region lay wreaths on Friday at the memorial to employees of the Radio and Television of Serbia (RTS) killed in the 1999 NATO bombing.

BELGRADE - Initiative group of journalist-participants of the international conference on the protection of safety and integrity of journalists in the OSCE region laid wreaths on Friday at the memorial to employees of the Radio and Television of Serbia (RTS) killed in the 1999 NATO bombing.

Airlines rushed on March 26 to change their rules so as to require a second crew member in the cockpit at all times, hours after French prosecutors suggested a co-pilot who barricaded himself alone at the controls of a jetliner had crashed it on purpose.
   

A U.S.-led programme to train Syrian opposition forces to fight hardline Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, which was due to begin earlier this month, has experienced "a minor delay", Turkey's foreign minister said on March 27.
   

England's slain king Richard III, exhumed from an undignified grave beneath a car park, was finally buried with honour on Thursday, 530 years after his brutal death on the battlefield.
     
In a poignant ceremony, a coffin containing his bones was gently lowered into the ground at Leicester Cathedral in central England, a short distance from where they were found in 2012.

BELGRADE - The great lady of dance, Italian ballet dancer and actress Carla Fracci officially opened the 12th international Belgrade Dance Festival (BFI) in Center Sava in Belgrade.

Welcoming numerous visitors on Wednesday evening, Fracci underlined that this is her first visit to the region, and that she is sorry that she never performed in Belgrade.

Britain's top court on March 26 overruled the government to allow the publication of a series of letters from Prince Charles to ministries, in a potential setback for the heir to the throne.
      

Britain will begin training Syrian "moderate opposition forces" in Turkey and other regional countries within weeks as part of its efforts to fight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announced on March 26.