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Opposition parties have come out against changes to the criminal code that water down the procedure for approving pre-trial detention of suspects.

Romania's upper chamber, the Senate, on Monday approved an amendment to the code by which the prosecutors will only be able to arrest someone preventively if they have solid evidence that that person has broken the law.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the head of the Social Democrat Party (PSD) reviewed on Monday the achievements of his governing over the past three years since the USL (Social Liberal Union, PSD's alliance with the National Liberal Party PNL) toppled the Democrat Liberal Party (PDL) government led by then PM Mihai Razvan Ungureanu.

Turkish media outlets claim that the two terrorists killed in a raid at the Istanbul Caglayan Courthouse on Tuesday after gunning down Prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz made a call to senior officials of the Revolutionary People's Liberal Party-Front (DHKP-C) in Greece.

Bidders attending an auction held at the 19th-century Athenee Palace Hotel in Bucharest landmark stumped up a total of 50,000 euro on buying Communist memorabilia, including the cap and Communist Party membership card of the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

Seselj's radicals will be arrested if they bring wooden stake on Djindji?'s grave

- I could easily send my deputy Nemanja Sarovic with a wooden stake in his hands to visit Zoran Djindji?'s grave - said Vojislav Seselj.

These words, which shocked Serbian public, Vojislav Seselj said yesterday in Pozarevac, where he visited the grave of former president Slobodan Milosevic.

Today is the anniversary of assassination of Serbian PM Zoran Djindjic

The first democratically elected Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Djindjic was assassinated on this day in 2003, in front of the Serbian government building.

A van owned by the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), a liberal party mostly representing the ethnic Turkish minority, was set ablaze in the small hours of Saturday in Bulgaria's capital.

There is CCTV footage of the incident, and sources familiar with its content have called it "arson".

Moldova's parliament on Thursday voted down the government proposed by Prime Minister Iurie Leanca, more than two months after general elections gave a narrow victory to pro-European Union parties.

Party critics of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott launched a dramatic bid Friday to unseat the unpopular conservative leader after less than 18 months in office, but he vowed to fight on.
      

The new National Liberal Party (PNL) was registered on Tuesday, after the merger with the Democrat Liberal Party (PDL), PNL Co-chair Vasile Blaga announced on Wednesday night at Realitatea TV.

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