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A Pentagon spokesman's statement about the deaths of two Serbian embassy staffers in Libya "does not reflect the official position of the U.S. administration."

This is what U.S. Ambassador Kyle Scott told Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic as they met in Belgrade on Saturday.

A nine-hour-long Turkish cabinet meeting chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on Feb. 22 focused on foreign policy, with the future of Ankara's bilateral relations Israel and Egypt as well as its position regarding the Syrian conflict reviewed in a bid to update its roadmap on these thorny issues.

The Berlin International Film Festival, or the Berlinale, has always been hailed as one of the most socially conscious film festivals in the world. Last year's screening of "Fifty Shades of Grey" might have tarnished that image if this year was not one of the most politically-charged editions in the Berlinale's history.

Syria's fragile cease-fire entered a second day yesterday with battlezones still largely quiet for the first time in five years, despite sporadic incidents including several air strikes.

Elton John gave a surprise West Hollywood concert to several thousand fans ahead of the Oscars, with Lady Gaga as guest performer.

Turkish military sources have denied reports that Turkey hit Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) positions in Tal Abyad across the border on Feb. 27 and 28.

Speaking to daily Hürriyet, military sources said neither YPG nor Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions on the Syrian side of the border have been targeted, refuting Russia's claims.

The world's 20 top economies will use all policy tools available to lift sluggish global growth, they said on Feb. 27, despite German disquiet over fiscal and monetary stimulus.

Fitch Ratings affirmed Turkey's sovereign rating at BBB-, the lowest investment grade rating, with a stable outlook on late Feb. 26, noting that fiscal discipline remained in place in 2015 despite two parliamentary elections.

"Spotlight," one of the strongest candidates at this year's Oscars, has already been hailed as one of the best ever movies on journalism. The movie covers the story of the Boston Globe's investigative Spotlight unit, which earned the daily the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its reporting on child sex abuse in the Boston area by Roman Catholic priests.

Fresh off a runaway win in the South Carolina primary, Democrat Hillary Clinton turned her sights to a possible match-up with Republican front-runner Donald Trump in the Nov. 8 presidential election.