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Exports fell to $11.7 billion in October with a 4.6 percent decline compared to the same month of 2015, data from the Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TİM) showed on Nov. 1, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

The advance of Ankara-backed Syrian rebels was hampered due to resistance by jihadists in northern Syria, the Turkish army said in a statement on Nov. 1. 

US multinational insurance corporation AIG is withdrawing from the insurance business in Bulgaria as part of its decision to leave several markets.

Earlier in October, it announced it would sell some of its Latin American and Eastern European businesses to Canadian company Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited.

The detention of executives and columnists from the critical daily Cumhuriyet newspaper has been criticized by officials from the United States and Europe, with the U.S. State Department saying it supports Turkey's efforts to locate those responsible for the attempted coup, but was deeply concerned by the continuing pressure on the news media.

A senior U.S. State Department official on Oct. 31 said the movement of Pennsylvania-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen has a set up that resembles an organized criminal network, which makes it not a "benign religious movement."

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has made a gaffe during an interview with RTL Danas, as she spoke about the U.S. presidential elections.

"Americans will decide who our next president will be - I mean, their next president," she said, thus "quickly correcting herself, and smiling faintly because of her verbal gaffe," Croatian website index.hr has reported.

US ambassador to Serbia Kyle Randolph Scott stated on Monday that relations between Belgrade and Washington are positive and getting better - and Serbia should not feel it has to choose between Moscow and Washington.

"I think it is a false dilemma. Serbia can maintain good relationships with both Russia and the West; as it was in the past, the same can be in the future," Scott said.

An international military exercise called "Montenegro 2016", involving servicemen and women from the 32 NATO member and partner countries, started in the capital Podgorica on Monday

The consequence management field exercise, organized jointly by the Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre, EADRCC, and the Montenegrin Interior Ministry, ends on Friday.

Bulgaria is negotiating the opening of an automotive assembly plant on its soil, the investment promotion agency's head has said.

"We are in talks with a major German company [to convince it] to begin assembling cars in Bulgaria," Stamen Yanev, chair of InvestBulgaria Agency, has told daily 24 Chasa in an interview.

China showcased its Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter for the first time in public on Tuesday, sending it on a flypast over Airshow China, the country’s biggest meeting of aircraft makers and buyers in the southern city of Zhuhai.