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Kosovo's Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci has announced that Pristina will soon bring "a genocide claim" against Serbia, "and request damages."

He said this during Tuesday's United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Kosovo and Metohija, and added that "appropriate documentation" was prepared for this."

Thailand's junta confirmed May 27 that elections will not be held until September 2016, dealing a further blow to hopes that the kingdom's generals will swiftly hand power back to a civilian government.

Greece will be looking with interest Wednesday at the news emerging from Brussels, where the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship is expected to announce a plan to relocate about 40,000 refugees from Italy and Greece.

The production of fruits, vegetables and cereals and other crops is expected to increase when compared with previous year, the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜ?K) said on May 26.

Europe must do more to help migrants crossing the Mediterranean, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday ahead of a visit to Brussels, as a planned EU naval operation awaits UN Security Council approval.

A high level international conference on the implementation of the International Decade for Action "Water for Life", 2005-2015 will be held between June 9 and 11 in Tajikistan's Dushanbe. 

The UN-backed war crimes court has told the Belgrade authorities to send Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj back to detention after he breached the terms of his temporary release.

Militants opened fire on two Bangladeshi peacekeepers in Mali's Bamako on May 25, killing one, the second attack within days in the capital of what is considered the most dangerous UN mission in the world.

In 2014, the number of exercises and training activities has nationally increased by 25 pct as compared to 2013, and those executed at bilateral/allied level have recorded a 133 pct growth, the National Defence minister Mircea Dusa said on Monday, at the annual reunion of the Defence attaches accredited in Bucharest.

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Serbian FM Ivica Dacic will be representing Serbia at the UN Security Council meeting on Kosovo, to be held in New York on Tuesday.