Uruguay

Croatia is the rival of the Greek football national team for the 2018 World Cup qualifying barrage round.

The first match will be held in Croatia and the second Greece, probably in “Georgios Karaiskakis”.

FIFA will soon be announcing the exact dates of the matches.

One of the most wanted Italian mobsters was arrested in Uruguay after he hid for 23 years, Interior Minister Marco Miniati said.

Photo: MFA

First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says Kosovo will never become a member of UNESCO thanks to Serbia's friends.

Dacic spoke on Tuesday in Belgrade as he opened the 18th Congress of the International Federation for Latin America and the Caribbean Studies (FIEALC), held at John Naisbitt University.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - After several unforeseen developments and delays, Uruguay's initiative to legalize and regulate the cultivation and consumption of marijuana domestically through licensed pharmacies finally began this week as customers lined up to make their purchases in the capital Montevideo and elsewhere.

Uruguay will become the first country in the world where marijuana will be sold in drugstores, AFP reported.

At this point, only 16 pharmacies across the country with a population of 3.4 million will sell the mild drug. The Uruguayan authorities have failed to agree on the issue with large pharmaceutical chains.

Turkish banking sector is regulated and monitored more favorable than emerging economies, but it is still reliant on short-term external debt, according to global rating agency Standard and Poor's.        

Harry Potter turned 20 on June 26 when muggle readers in gowns and glasses from Indonesia to Uruguay will celebrate the birth of a global publishing phenomenon in 1997.

"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (later renamed "Sorcerer's Stone" for the U.S. market) introduced the boy wizard and a magical cast of supporting characters.

One can get lost and stranded anywhere, but nothing’s as this god forsaken place. Composed of endless valleys filled with nothing but sand, low hills and rocky dunes for miles and miles in every direction, the Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest non-polar desert and the most desolate place on Earth.

Dozens of German companies including Siemens attended meetings in Bolivia this week to discuss building a coast-to-coast railway through Brazil, Bolivia and Peru that could speed up the export of corn and soybeans to Asia, German and Bolivian officials said on March 22.

A movie about the Rolling Stones 2016 Latin America tour, which culminated in their first-ever concert in Cuba, will open this year's Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF) on Friday.