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The Sahara Desert has grown significantly over the past century, and climate change is largely to blame, according to a new study.

Analysing data collected since 1923, a research team examined the different factors that contributed to changes in rainfall in the Sahara region.

RTS is reporting this on Tuesday, citing Kosovo-based media.

"I am the first US officer of Serbian ancestry to command the Multinational Battle Group East. The role of KFOR remains unchanged, contribution to a safe and secure environment for all," Ducich is quoted as saying.

The US officer took over the command of the base from Colonel Michael Spraggins.

Three people have suffered in a shooting at the headquarters of the US National Security Agency (NSA in the US state of Maryland near the capital, Washington. According to local media, one person was detained. Other details of the incident are not reported.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommends to Bulgarian citizens in the northeastern parts of the USA affected by the severe winter storm to be informed about the development of the meteorological environment.

There are  closed road sections and heavy snowfalls on the east coast of the United States.

When President Vladimir V. Putin in July ordered American diplomatic missions in Russia to slash their staff by 755 employees, the State Department said it would need time to assess the “impact of such a limitation and how we will respond to it.”

The next season of Netflix’s award-winning “House of Cards” will be the last, a spokesman said Monday, as the series reeled over sexual misconduct allegations against its star Kevin Spacey.

BELGRADE - Companies from Maryland, US are very interested in investing in the Serbian environmental protection sector, Maryland Secretary of State John Wobensmith, who is heading a business and political delegation on a visit to Belgrade, said on Wednesday.

Edin Mrvoljak, a 48-year-old citizen of Bosnia-Herzgovina, is among three people killed by a fellow worker at an office park in Baltimore, US state of Maryland.

The Belgrade-based daily Blic is reporting, citing Sarajevo media, that the shooter was an African American.

A Maryland sheriff says three people have been killed and two were wounded during a shooting at an office park in the northeastern part of the state.

Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler identified the shooter Wednesday morning and says police are looking for him.

The singer of alternative metal, Marilyn Manson has cancelled nine shows of his ”Heaven Upside Down” tour, after the onstage incident on Saturday in New York, in which the singer was crushed by a stage prop.