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The Romanian Muftiyat, which represents Muslims in the country, has cancelled its project to build a showpiece mosque in the capital, saying the costs were too high.

The Muftiyat has filed a request to the Ministry of Culture to return the property assigned for the planned mosque to the Romanian government, Mufti Iusuf Murat said.

Compared with the previous month, the average gross wage increased by 6.2 percent in nominal terms and by 5 percent in real terms, the Statistical Office of Serbia (RZZS) has announced.

The average net wage meanwhile increased by 6.7 percent in nominal terms, and by 5.5 percent in real terms.

A press release identified the officer with his initials as E.H., adding that the shooting did not result in any injuries or material damage.

Montenegro's state broadcaster RTCG said that the ministry did not explain whether E.H. fired accidentally or on purpose.

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios was in Athens on Monday for talks with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said to have focused on the name talks between Athens and Skopje and the continued detention of two Greek soldiers by Turkey.

It might be the short, pleated kilts, tasseled black garters and pompom-tipped shoes, but there's something more endearing than intimidating about Greece's best-known military unit, the Presidential Guard.

Which helps explain why they are one of Athens's most popular tourist attractions, vying for camera clicks with the millennia-old ruins of Greece's Golden Age.

"Its not at all simple. There is still a lot of hatred but we need to overcome it and try to find a compromise," Vucic said, and continued:

"If you ask me whether I am optimistic, I am not. But we're still going to invest large amounts of effort to reach a compromise. I cannot guarantee that the other side will do the same."

On this date (May 6), Bulgaria celebrates the Holy Martyr George the Victorious each year.

He is one of the most revered saints, a martyr of Christ's faith in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Easter is the principal festival of the Orthodox Church. In the bible, it is the day when Mary Magdalene found that an empty tomb in the cave in which Jesus had been placed following his death by crucifixion on the Friday before.

Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria and around the world mark on April 2 Holy Monday - the first day of the most important week in the church calendar, the Holy Week leading to Easter.

Today, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Christian holiday of Tsvetnitsa(Flower's Day). It is traditionally always a week before Easter and is one of the important spring holidays. It is dedicated to the solemn reception of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem with olive and laurel twigs.