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The regional court in the Bulgarian town of Haskovo refused to extradite to France Fritz-Joly Joachin on charges of abduction.

The court has to decide on the request for his extradition on the basis of two European Arrest Warrants (EAW) - one concerning an attempt of kidnapping his child and the other one on terrorism, electronic daily Dnevnik reports.

A European Central Bank bond-buying plan floated in 2012 would not break EU law subject to certain conditions, a top adviser to the European Union's highest court said on Wednesday.

A Turkish model has been questioned by a prosecutor for allegedly ?insulting? President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on her Instagram account, after she shared a satirical poem published in a popular magazine.

Merve Büyüksaraç, an industrial designer and writer who was crowned Miss Turkey in 2006, went to testify at the courthouse in Istanbul?s Ça?layan neighborhood on Jan. 14. 

BELGRADE - The decision by the Croatian Constitutional Court to overturn the sentence against Branimir Glavas, found guilty of war crimes in the "garage" and "duct tape" cases, is shameful and scandalous, head of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta has said.

Former Transport and Communications Minister Tasos Mantelis has offered to returned 230,000 euros he received from Siemens in return for a more lenient sentence in his bribery trial, which began Tuesday.

Investigative journalist Dimitris Psarras and his editor at Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper, Nikolas Voulelis, were on Tuesday cleared of charges of slander and obtaining personal data without consent.

An Istanbul court has arrested two policemen involved in the inquiry into the killing of Hrant Dink, the Turkish Armenian journalist.

The court accepted on Jan. 13 the prosecutor's demand to arrest Muhittin Zenit and Özkan Mumcu, two police officers on duty at the police department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon when Dink was killed in Istanbul. 

An Istanbul court has arrested a policeman involved in the inquiry into the killing of Hrant Dink, the Turkish Armenian journalist.

The court accepted on Jan. 13 the prosecutor's demand to arrest Muhittin Zenit, one of two police officers on duty at the police department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon when Dink was killed in Istanbul. 

A regional Turkish court qualified Istanbul?s iconic Emek Movie Theater as an historical and cultural heritage landmark on Jan. 13, a ruling that came too late as the building hosting the facility was demolished on May 2013, despite mass protests and social campaigns.

British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, a.k.a. the ?Naked Chef,? has not found what he had hoped for with his ?Jamie?s Italian? restaurant in Istanbul, which is seeking a suspension of bankruptcy from a court that has ruled for an injunction, according to sources.