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Former Federation Agriculture Minister Jerko Ivankovic Lijanovic and Tuzla Canton Trade Minister Edin Ajanovic were among five people arrested on Monday for alleged wrongdoings in agricultural subsidies distribution, Tuzla cantonal prosecutor said.

Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova has said that state-owned companies in the sector will be able to save some BGN 20 M in 2015.

In an interview with the Bulgarian National Television she has reminded of the government's commitment to cut expenditures there by 10% every year until 2017.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has called on the Supreme Court of Appeals' Prosecutor's Office to take legal action against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) for acting against the law on political parties by maintaining alleged ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

Turkish authorities have come close to identifying a suspected suicide bomber of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-launched attack on a political event in southeast Turkey, an official source close to the forensic investigation told the Hürriyet Daily News.

''My main salary is BGN 2,400 and when the bonuses are added it goes up to BGN 2,800,'' stated Botevgrad mayor Georgi Georgiev in an interview for bTV Tuesday morning.

The Botevgrad Mayor Georgi Georgiev has been taken for interrogation at the local Prosecutor's Office earlier on Monday morning.

He is not arrested and he is not a suspect on any investigation. The measure was taken afrter several unsuccessful attempts on the part of the Botevgrad prosecution to call Georgiev in for questioning.

The Bucharest Court of Appeal declared undesirable for ten years two Tunisian citizens who were being monitored by the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) since 2014, the Service's spokesman Sorin Sava told AGERPRES on Friday.

Naser Oric arrested in Switzerland

Swiss police arrested Naser Oric, Bosniak wartime commander of Srebrenica, at the airport in Bern today, because he is on Serbian Interpol's wanted list.

Oric was arrested on the basis of the indictment against him by the Prosecutor's Office for War Crimes in Belgrade in 2014, based on court records transferred to the Tribunal in The Hague.

Prime minister Victor Ponta said on Monday, after he was heard at the legal Committee with the Chamber of Deputies, that he has told the members of this forum that the political decisions could not be censored by a prosecutor.

Macedonian authorities have cut the number of the members of the armed group killed by police forces in Kumanovo last week, MIA news agency reported.