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Bucharest, May 29 /Agerpres/ - US President Donald Trump is controversial both in the United States as in Europe but, "when you look past the controversy and you put that aside, there is a clarity of purpose in US foreign policy", said, in an interview for AGERPRES, foreign policy expert James Carafano.

A twelfth suspect was identified by Greek police on Saturday in connection to a mob attack against Thessaloniki mayor Yiannis Boutaris on May 19.

The 22-year-old Greek national will face charges of verbal assault and disturbing the peace.

A misdemeanors court in Thessaloniki on Wednesday found three people guilty over a mob attack against city mayor Yiannis Boutaris last weekend, which resulted in his brief hospitalization.

At least 10 Georgian members of a gang that burgled homes, mainly in Athens's affluent northern suburbs, were arrested on Tuesday during police raids of their hideouts across Attica.

So far the gang has been linked to more than 100 burglaries and robberies in the wider Attica area.

Another two suspects have been arrested in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, in connection with a violent attack by a nationalist mob on city mayor Yiannis Boutaris, bring the total in police custody to four.

According to reports, the suspects are aged 17 and 20 years old. No more details were immediately available.

Two men were arrested in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Sunday in connection with a violent attack by a nationalist mob on Mayor Yiannis Boutaris.

The men had been remanded earlier on the basis of video footage of the incident, which took place in front of the northern port's emblematic White Tower during a commemoration of the World War I genocide of the Pontic Greeks.

Countries such as Botswana, Costa Rica or Georgia represent an anti-corruption model by which Romania could be inspired, political scientist Alina Mungiu-Pippidi said at the presentation of her recently published book, called "In search of a good governing", in which she analyzed 200 contemporary countries, a large number of historical case studies and seven countries that have evolved towards

On this date (May 6), Bulgaria celebrates the Holy Martyr George the Victorious each year.

He is one of the most revered saints, a martyr of Christ's faith in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Serbian-born basketball coach Igor Kokoskov has been hired to lead the US team Phoenix Suns, becoming the first head coach in National Basketball Association history born outside North America.

"I have been preparing for this for 18 years and I'm not afraid of any challenge," Kokoskov, 46, told the Serbian daily Vecernje novosti on Friday.

Nine US soldiers died in a plane crash crashing into Savannah, Georgia, the BNR reported.

The plane is a cargo C-130 "Hercules", which belongs to Puerto Rico's National Guard.

It crashed in the immediate vicinity of Savannah Hilton Headquarters International Airport, the US Air Force said in a statement.

The plane carried out a training flight, added the National Radio.