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"EU accession, regional stability Serbia's priorities"

EU Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Commissioner Johannes Hahn spoke on Thursday in Belgrade with Acting PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

During the meeting, Dacic said that EU accession and regional stability were among Serbia's foreign policy priorities.

UN agency concerned at alleged Greek pushbacks of Turks

The United Nations refugee agency is expressing deep concern at reports that Turks seeking asylum in Greece have been forcibly returned to Turkey by Greek authorities.

The UNHCR said Thursday it is "of vital importance" that Greek authorities comprehensively investigate the allegations.

Turkey's ruling AKP to withdraw controversial draft law on olive groves: Official

A contentious draft law to make possible for the building of industrial facilities on olive groves if "public interest" can be imputed under the supervision of a preservation board will be withdrawn to the commission, a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) official has stated. 

Fantasticon Festival | Athens | June 9 & 10

The Trianon open-air movie theater is hosting the Fantasticon Classic Movies Festival on June 9 and 10, starring a slew of valiant warriors, fantastical creatures and revolutionaries of dystopian societies. Friday's screenings are "Fire and Ice" (English, 1983) at 6.30 p.m., "Legend" (English, 1985) at 8.10 p.m. and "The City of Lost Children" (French, 1995) at 10 p.m.

FARC rebels handed 30 pct of weapons

Colombia's FARC rebel group said on June 7 that it has handed in 30 percent of its weaponry to the United Nations, part of a peace deal signed with the government last year to end more than 52 years of war.

EuroWorking Group head: Memorandum for next 45 years for Greece!

In a interview to Austrian newspapers Salzburger Nachrichten and Ober Nachrichten the President of the EuroGroup Working Group, Thomas Wieser labeled the IMF’s proposal for a radical reduction of the Greek debt ridiculous. “All Europeans say: That is ridiculous”, he remarked in his interview to the two publications. Mr.

Refugee crisis trumps Dublin regulation on asylum processing, ECJ says

Any countries in the European Union receiving asylum requests from refugees have an obligation to process them irrespective of where the applicants first entered into the bloc, an advocate general at the European Court of Justice said on Thursday.

Albanian Judicial Reform Faces New Court Challenge

The National Association of Judges and the Union of Albanian Judges have filed a lawsuit with the Albanian Constitutional Court, challenging the legality of the Law on the Governing Institutions of the Justice System, the Law on the Status of Judges and Prosecutors and the Law on the Reassessment of Judges and Prosecutors, known as the 'vetting' law.

3 more people arrested in London terror attack probe on election eve

Three more people were arrested in connection with London's weekend terrorist attack, on the eve of Britain's election on June 6, police have said.

Two men were arrested by police "supported by firearms officers" on a street in Ilford, east London, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

Jobless in Greece over 1 million, ELSTAT says

The aggregate of employed people is estimated at a little over 3,6 million, a 0.9% rise in comparison to March 2016. The number of non working population (people without a job and not seeking work) amounts to 3,270,865, a 0.2% increase compared to March 2016 and February 2017.

Macedonia ready for name compromise in order to join NATO

NATO plans to accept Macedonia by the spring of 2018, Sputnik has been told by a source familiar with Skopje's membership negotiations.

"NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg plans to visit to Skopje in mid-July and discuss this. The goal of NATO is for the country to be accepted to the alliance by the spring of 2018," the source told the news agency.

Priest sculpture stolen from museum in Turkey's Isparta

The 6th-century sculpture of a priest has been stolen from a museum in the Yalvaç district of the southwestern Turkish province of Isparta. 

The 70-centimeter sculpture had been in the garden of the museum, located between the Yalvaç Court House and the Government Office and surrounded by a one-meter wall and two-meter iron fences. 

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