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Sasa Obradovic has said that proceedings before the Hague Tribunal (ICTY) take an excessive amount of time, in the context of the health of some indictees.

The Serbian government's legal representative was addressing a UN Security Council session when he called for the proceedings before the court to be concluded as soon as possible.

The trial of Golden Dawn leaders and members was adjourned yet again Thursday and is to resume on Monday at a specially designed courtroom at Attica?s high-security Korydallos Prison despite objections by local authorities and residents to the choice of venue.

Hague Tribunal President Theodor Meron said before the UN Security Council that the last cases tried before the court would be completed in 2017, as scheduled.

Meron was presenting information on the progress of the Hague Tribunal (ICTY) in completing the remaining first and second instance proceedings.

Dutch ambassador Robert Bosch told newspaper Kosovo Sot on Thursday that Thaci's claim that the verdict convicting the ex-guerrillas was politically motivated was inappropriate.

"Officials should never comment on the decision of the court," said Bosch.

A Turkish actor has been fined 7,080 Turkish Liras for a piece he wrote, on the grounds that it defamed the then-prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, meanwhile acquitting him of the piece?s remarks about the son of Erdo?an, Bilal Erdo?an, and Saudi businessman Yasin El Kad?.

An administrative court in Ankara has ruled against the Turkish Energy Ministry?s decision to ban Turkey?s Do?an Holding from government tenders temporarily, the company said in a filing to the stock exchange late June 1.

Do?an Holding said the 12th Administrative Court ruled in favor of its demand for the annulment of the ban.  

An Egyptian court postponed June 2 issuing a final ruling over a death sentence recommendation for former Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and other top Muslim Brotherhood leaders in a case related to a 2011 mass jail break. 

The judge said the case was postponed to June 16. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is back hounding a media organ, this time daily Cumhuriyet, and Can Dündar, its editor-in-chief, for publishing footage about three Syria-bound trucks that were stopped by the gendarmerie near Adana in January 2014. It turned out at the time that the trucks belonged to Turkey?s National Intelligence Organization (M?T).

Doctors went on a nationwide strike for one day on June 1, as the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) announced late last week it was calling all its member doctors to go on a strike to protest the killing of Kamil Furtun, a thoracic surgeon who was shot dead while on duty on May 29 in a public hospital in the Black Sea province of Samsun.

Turkey has not fulfilled many of the recommendations in a study by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on its bid to acquire nuclear energy, according to a document seen by Hürriyet.