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Tens of thousands of protesters rallied outside Congress late Dec. 17 against President Mauricio Macri, a mere week after the conservative politician took office as Argentina's new president.

Can Dündar, the editor-in-Chief of daily Cumhuriyet who was recently imprisoned for publishing a story on Syria-bound intelligence trucks, stood trial for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's son in two opinion pieces on the Dec. 17, 2013 graft probe, the largest corruption investigation in modern Turkish history, on Dec. 17. 

Former commander of the Serbian Interior Ministry's Gendarmerie unit Gen. Bratislav Dikic has asked to retire due to illness, Vecernje Novosti daily writes.

Jasna Omejec, president of Croatia's constitutional court, on Wednesday announced the start of a constitutional review of the law on medical measures, which allows abortion until the 10th week of pregnancy.

The mainly Catholic country inherited the law of 1978 from communist Yugoslavia.

An indictment of the investigation into negligence of public officials in the killing of prominent Armenian-Turkish journalistHrant Dink in Istanbul has been approved by the court.

A K?r?ehir court has begun trying six arrested suspects and 11 others for violent attacks against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and Kurds in the Central Anatolian province early in September. 

A suspected militant of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who is thought to have planned an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, was arrested by court on Dec. 15 after being detained in the southern Turkish province of Kahramanmara?.

The Council of State has reversed a previous ruling permitting the Housing Development Organization (TOK?) to sell land along the coastal shore of Istanbul's Bak?rköy district even as the construction of five 16-story buildings nears completion. 

A local court in Ankara has refused an appeal by lawyers of U.S.-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gülen to take President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an to court on charges of "violating his personal rights."

The appeals court said in a statement on Monday that it has upheld the six ethnic Albanians' sentences and rejected their appeal as "ungrounded".

Their defence had demanded acquittal due to a lack of evidence, insisting the case was a political prosecution staged by the government.