Administrative territorial entities

Turkey's president on Feb. 14 attended a joint session of Turkey-Pakistan Business Forum in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

Voters are heading out to cast ballots in Azerbaijan's snap election on Feb. 9, with polls opening at 8.00 a.m. local time and set to close at 7.00 p.m.

A total of 1,314 candidates - including nearly 300 women - are running for parliamentary seats in the Caspian country.

Mass emigration is not only common for the countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, but also affects rich countries such as Switzerland.

Many Swiss are trying their luck in other countries, and their favorite destinations are France, Germany and the United States, as well as Australia and Thailand.

The importance of the strategic dialogue between Romania and the Netherlands was highlighted on Monday within the discussions between National Defence Minister Nicolae-Ionel Ciuca and Dutch Ambassador in Bucharest Roelof van Ees, reads a National Defence Ministry (MApN) release.

Russia, the world's largest wheat exporter, has resumed shipments to major buyer Vietnam after a temporary suspension at Vietnam's request, Russian state news agency TASS reported, citing Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov.

Labor and Social Policy Minister Bisser Petkov and Georgia's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Tamara Liluashvili discussed the preparation of administrative procedures for the implementation of the Agreement on the Regulation of Labor Migration between Bulgaria and Georgia, which was signed in Tbilisi on September 30.

Selen Gür, a 13-year-old Turkish ballerina, has won a full scholarship at Académie Princesse Grace in Monaco, one of the most prestigious ballet schools in the world.

The UEFA Europa League's group stage draw has been made on Aug. 30 in Monaco.

The Dolj County Court on Saturday decided to held in preventive detention for 30 days Gheorghe Dinca, the man from Caracal Town suspected of murdering a teenager of 15 from the Dobrosloveni locality, Olt County, the charges so far being of traffic in minors and rape.

Those are the following countries: São Tom and Prncipe, Surinam, Guinea-Bissau, Burundi, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Lesotho, Commonwealth Dominica, Grenada, Union of Comoros, the Solomon Islands, Madagascar and Palau for which the Ministry submitted to the Radio Free Europe (RFE) copies of diplomatic notes in which they inform the Ministry on their decision.