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The Greek government on Thursday said no contact had been made between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and former US President Bill Clinton in the early days following the bailout referendum last year.

The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) has reinstated a total of 198 judges and prosecutors previously suspended as a part of the ongoing investigation into Turkey's failed coup attempt of July 15.

The number of voting declarations filed by Bulgarians abroad is record high, said the spokesperson of the Central Election Commission Tsvetozar Tomov, reported Focus agency.

The U.S. military launched cruise missile strikes on Oct. 13 to knock out three coastal radar sites in areas of Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi forces, retaliating after failed missile attacks this week on a U.S. Navy destroyer, U.S. officials said. 

The interrogation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on a Swedish rape accusation has been postponed by a month at his request, Ecuadoran prosecutors said Oct. 12.

The questioning, initially scheduled for Oct. 17, will now take place on Nov. 14 at 10:00 a.m. at Ecuador's embassy in London, where Assange has been holed up since June 2012, the national public prosecutors' office said.

According to email correspondence revealed by WikiLeaks, the White House asked Bill Clinton's former Chief of Staff, John Podesta, to inquire whether the former US president would be willing to intervene following the Greek referendum in July last year with the aim of getting Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to agree on a new bailout agreement with the country's partners and creditors. 

When the leaders of the Western World had to make a tough decision, usually a public activity with their dog was used to calm citizens down. Here are 10 dogs that had the White House as their playground.

George Washington and the American Foxhound

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has defended his criticism of injustices committed during the Turkish government's sweeping post-coup attempt measures, saying "he has spent his whole life struggling for democracy and human rights … and against the [Fethullahist Terror Organization] FETÖ."

BELGRADE - The Tourist Organization of Belgrade (TOB) and the Belgrade Marathon were presented at the Abbott Health & Fitness Expo in Chicago Monday.

The TOB and the Belgrade Marathon presented Belgrade's tourist attractions and the 30th anniversary edition of the marathon to over 140,000 participants from 100 countries, a TOB statement said.

Nobel prize-winning Italian playwright, director and political activist Dario Fo, an acclaimed satirist who poked a finger in the eye of the church and state, has died aged 90, officials said on Oct. 13.

Famous for his cutting political satire in plays such as 'The Accidental Death of an Anarchist', Fo won the Nobel prize for literature in 1997.