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SUZDAL (Russia) - Arms were not discussed at the 15th session of the Serbian-Russian committee on trade, economic and scientific and technical cooperation in Suzdal as that is not in the scope of the committee's work, Russian media quoted Serbian FM Ivica Dacic as saying Thursday.

Osman Efendioğlu, a local poet living in Turkey's Black Sea province of Rize, has been selected as a Living Human Treasure by UNESCO. 

The 80-year-old Efendioğlu says he knows 90 percent of "atma türkü" (a type of public poetry unique to the eastern Black Sea region) spoken in Rize and is working to collect all this poetry in a book. 

Iraqi paramilitaries launched an operation on Oct. 29 to retake the town of Tal Afar from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and cut jihadist supply lines from Mosul to Syria, a spokesman said.

Silent and enigmatic, China's emblematic Terracotta Warriors are at the center of a bitter row, with patriots and scholars dismissing as impossible theories they could have been inspired by Greek sculpture.

Turkish Culture Minister Nabi Avcı inaugurated an exhibition on Ottoman scholar and intellectual Matrakçı Nasuh at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Oct. 27. 

SJENICA - The municipality of Sjenica, southwestern Serbia, has nominated the technology of preparing the famous Sjenica cottage cheese for the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list.

A recreated Hittite village, which is set to be built in the Central Anatolian province of Çorum, home to the ancient site of Hattusha, will revive the life of the Hittite kingdom 3,500 years ago. 

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SJENICA - The municipality of Sjenica, southwestern Serbia, has nominated the technology of preparing the famous Sjenica cottage cheese for the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list.

The municipality of Sjenica has nominated the technology of preparing the famous Sjenica cottage cheese for the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list.

Sjenica is a town located on the Pester karst plateau in southwestern Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Friday received Namibian Deputy PM and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, noting that Serbia wanted to have closer ties with African countries, in particular in the economy.