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Russian military aircraft were scrambled to head off a US warship that was acting "aggressively" in the Black Sea, state news agency RIA reported on May 30, but the Pentagon denied any unusual behavior. 

Vice Admiral Rumen Nikolov, Chief of Defence Staff of Bulgaria, will participate in the Annual Meeting of the Chiefs of Defence/General Staffs of the Balkan Countries on May 27-28 in Budva, Montenegro.

US surveillance aircraft and naval ships have yet to test China?s territorial claims around artificial islands built in the South China Sea, but the Pentagon warned on May 21 that could be ?the next step.?

Germany's foreign intelligence agency helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan where US special forces killed the al-Qaeda leader, according to a German news report published May 17.

Iranian Revolutionary Guards fired warning shots May 14 at a Singapore-flagged commercial ship in the Gulf that had collided recently with an Iranian oil rig, US officials said May 14.

Iran has released the Maersk Tigris cargo vessel seized by its patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz last week over a business dispute, official media said May 7.

For over ten years, the local authorities in Cincu, a village in the mountains of central Romania, said they did not have the money to refurbish the main road connecting their village to the surroundings.

But, this week they found some 116,000 lei (27,000 euro) from the budget to plug potholes and fix the road, battered by harsh winters.

The missile defence base of Deveselu will operate under the authority of the Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) Naples, Defence Minister Mircea Dusa announced on Tuesday. The base's objectives will become operational by the end of this year, he mentioned.

Silla Zelia, a 23-year-old from Ivory Coast, is stuck in Italy's largest migrant center with nowhere to go after her asylum application was twice rejected and she lost contact with her family in Abidjan.

"One can get stuck here for two years, three years," she said from the former U.S. Navy housing complex in the heart of Sicily. "It's not easy."

A US aircraft carrier was headed to the Arabian Sea April 21 as Washington said it was monitoring Iranian vessels suspected of carrying weapons to Huthi rebels in Yemen in violation of a UN embargo.