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U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass has waded into the dispute between Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek and U.S. State Department spokesperson Marie Harf, by posting a photo-shopped blonde haired picture of himself on Instagram.

Labor Day marked with picnics and rallies

BELGRADE -- International Workers Day, May 1, is known in Serbia as Labor Day and is a two-day non-working holiday in the country.

It is traditionally marked with early morning picnics and barbecues known in Serbian as "uranak" - and with protests organized by trade unions.

Iran is actively trying to buy nuclear technology through blacklisted companies, according to a confidential United Nations (UN) report, citing information from the British government.
 
The claims -- which if true would violate UN sanctions -- were made to a UN panel of experts just weeks after world powers reached a framework deal with Iran on curbing its nuclear program.

The US and US-led coalition forces conducted 21 air strikes which hit targets in Syria and Iraq early on Thursday morning, according to a US official.

15 air raids in Iraq targeted ISIS positions in seven cities and their outskirts, including Ramadi and Mosul, destroying many buildings, vehicles and units of ISIS fighters.

Some 123 U.S. soldiers arrived in Turkey as part of a program to train and equip the putatively moderate Syrian opposition, along with weapons that are being transferred to ?ncirlik Airbase in the southern province of Adana.

Turkey?s National Security Board (MGK) chaired by President Tayyip Erdo?an decided on April 29 that the measures would be stepped up to stop ?structures within the state,? which would from now be regarded as a major threat to the country?s national security in the doctrinal ?Red Book.? ?Parallel structure?

There was a new arrangement in the hall where the National Security Council (MGK) meeting was held on April 29 in President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s palace. I saw it in the photographs.  

A giant table is in the hall. The table resembles a horseshoe and in the middle of the empty space there is a solid pyramid. 

Convicted terrorist Savvas Xiros explained on Thursday that he refuses to wear an ankle monitor – a prerequisite to get out of prison – due to … religious reasons!

BELGRADE - Serbia's foreign trade in the January-March 2015 period amounted to USD 7.48 billion, down 11.9 percent against a year earlier, while expressed in the Eurozone currency, it was EUR 6.64 billion, an increase of 7.1 percent, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (RZS) said in a release Thursday.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Thursday revealed that the German intelligence agency helped the NSA monitor the French presidential palace and foreign ministry officials as well as members of the European Commission.