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Former Greek socialist PASOK finance minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou stands before the court at 9 p.m. on Wednesday over charges of allegedly tampering with the Lagarde list that contained the names of more than 2,000 affluent Greeks with cash deposits at a Swiss HSBC branch.

At his trial on Monday in the Albanian Supreme Court, Socialist MP Arben Ndoka apologized for having attacked a fellow MP, maintaining that such actions have occurred in other parliaments.

"I want to apologize to the public although such incidents have happened in parliaments all over Europe and in the Albanian parliament in the past," Ndoka told reporters outside the court.

A Turkish criminal court on Feb. 24 issued another arrest warrant for the U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen as a part of the probe into the ?parallel state,? in which 28 suspects have been arrested so far. The court also issued an arrest warrant for Emre Uslu, a columnist and a former police official.

A Turkish criminal court on Feb. 24 issued another arrest warrant for the U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and columnist Emre Uslu, as a part of the probe into the ?parallel state,? in which 28 suspects have been arrested so far.

A Turkish woman who killed her female partner after she discovered her secret affair with a man has been sentenced to life in prison.

The Bak?rköy 2nd Heavy Penal Court convicted the 26-year-old woman, identified only as H.C., of "wilful homicide" over the death of the victim, identified as S.D., Do?an News Agency reported on Feb. 24.

Vladimira Yaneva has resigned from the post of Chair of the Sofia City Court.
She keeps the post of a judge.
The resignation was submitted to the Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) at the end of the working day on Monday, according to the press office of the court.

??bank said Feb. 23 all its activities were in line with Turkish banking laws and said it had observed ?incorrect? reports about its activities.

???bank has always conducted its activities with an emphasis on the benefits to the country, and in compliance with the banking law and related legislation,? the bank said in a statement to the Public Disclosure Platform.

BELGRADE - Head of the Serbian parliament committee for Kosovo Milovan Drecun said on Monday the statement by Kosovo's Prime Minister Hasim Taci that Kosovo would sue Serbia for genocide was an insult to victims, adding that Kosovo could not move forward unless it established a special court in the next few months.

The public prosecutor in the case into the killing of 19-year-old Gezi victim Ali ?smail Korkmaz has appealed the sentence given to police officer Mevlüt Saldo?an, claiming that Saldo?an should have been sentenced to life in prison on charges of first degree murder.

"Genocide lawsuit" plans are "insult to victims"

BELGRADE -- Parliamentary Committee on Kosovo and Metohija chairman Milovan Drecun says Hashim Thaci's announcement of a "genocide lawsuit" was "an insult to the victims."