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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address a press conference after a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin on June 4, 2018. Photo: Anadolu Agency

Aleksandar Vucic has hinted, during his news conference with the visiting Austrian chancellor, that he would not remain at the helm of the government for long.

German Chancellor has said that authorities have to assume they are "dealing with a terrorist attack", given the information available in the first hours after a lorry veered into a Christmas market in central Berlin.

The deed will be "as severely punished" as allowed by the law, she has added.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Nov. 12 appointed a rector to Istanbul's prestigious Boğaziçi University, marking the first such move after he was given the authority to directly appoint rectors following the latest state of emergency decree.

Some 350 academics at Istanbul's prestigious Boğaziçi University on Nov. 1 issued a press announcement at its southern campus denouncing the government's recently introduced decree law giving the president authority to directly appoint all state university rectors across Turkey, abandoning the rector election process. 

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic spoke in London on Thursday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

They met on the sidelines of the Syria donor conference.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will take part in a conference on the migrant crisis in London on February 4, Tanjug said it learned from Vucic’s office.

According to the agency, he will travel there at the invitation of the German chancellor, the prime ministers of Britain and Norway, the Kuwaiti Emir and the UN secretary-general.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed the view that Greece will fulfill its obligations arising from the 3rd bailout plan, during a press conference held in Berlin that is under way. ‘In the meantime, we have a program for Greece, a third program. We have released the first tranche of this program.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with representatives of the civil sector in Belgrade on Thursday morning.

They discussed the rule of law, judiciary, institutional reforms and regional issues.

Photos of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel entering the Chancellery have been causing a bit of a stir over the internet. Merkel’s hair looked disheveled and she appeared to be extremely fatigued and tired.  Last night’s Greek referendum results could have had something to do with her looks.