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Police in Greece on alert after terrorist's capture

A Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to death for renouncing Islam, then acquitted after intense international pressure on Khartoum, arrived on Wednesday in Italy with her family en route to the United States.
      
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was greeted on the tarmac by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzo and his wife as well as Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli.

The USA is outraged with the shot down of Malaysian Airlines' Flight 17 and sends heartfelt condolences to all those who lost loved ones aboard the aircraft, shows a press release the US Embassy in Bucharest remitted to AGERPRES on Saturday morning.

Greek police arrested one of the country's most wanted men – a fugitive convicted of terrorism – during a shootout Wednesday in Athens' central tourist district that left four people wounded, authorities said.

The US Embassy on Wednesday expressed its “strong objection” to the fact that an event was organized at the Athens Law School last Friday in honor of a controversial book by the convicted hit man of the defunct November 17 terrorist organization, Dimitris Koufodinas (photo), during which the latter addressed attendees by telephone.

“The United States Embassy in Tirana is appalled at the unsubstantiated allegation made against an Embassy employee earlier today by Mr Sali Berisha,” the US embassy said on Thursday.

“The allegation is completely untrue and without foundation,” it added.

The European Union will deploy over 60 observers to monitor the national elections in Kosovo on June 8, while other international missions are planning to send more monitors.

The EU delegation to Bosnia, the US embassy and the Office of the High Representative. OHR, have voiced concern about the politicization of the issue of residence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The vote on transforming the Kosovo Security Forces into the new Kosovo Armed Forces was expected on Monday but MPs decided to postpone it amid continuing disagreements between political parties over the Serb minority’s demands.

Party leaders met on Monday at the US embassy in Pristina to try to forge a consensus but local media reported that no agreement was reached.

Kosovo’s government on Tuesday voted in favour of a draft law which will see the mandate of the EU rule-of-law mission, EULEX, extended until June 15, 2016, and guarantees the continued operation of EULEX’s Special Investigative Task Force, SITF.

The extension of EULEX’s mandate was requested by Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga.