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LOZNICA - The Loznica City Council in western Serbia called at its extraordinary session on Monday for implementation of an urgent solution of the problem concerning the leak of heavy metals from the goaf of former antimony mine in Stolice.

After five years (2009-13) of decline, the fuel market returned to positive territory in June, albeit at the marginal rate of 0.3 percent year-on-year, according to official data, capitalizing on the first signs of economic recovery in Greece.

Syria's government said it has turned over all its chemical weapons and adhered to an international treaty, after US accusations that it had carried out several chlorine gas attacks.

A 25-year-old police officer has been arrested in northeastern Greece on suspicion of drug dealing.

He was arrested with five other men on Wednesday, when police raided a house in Komotini.

The raid was conducted after police had arrested an Albanian man at the city’s train station a day earlier.

He had several small packets of cannabis and cocaine in his possession.

Iran cannot convince the world that its current ability to enrich uranium is acceptable, the top US negotiator said on Tuesday ahead of new nuclear talks with global powers.

BELGRADE - Serbia is doing everything it can to enact new regulations that will limit the use of materials that damage the ozone layer, Serbia's Minister of Agriculture and Environment Protection Snezana Bogosavljevic-Boskovic said on September 16, the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.

An increasing number of big corporations expect governments worldwide to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions to help tackle climate change

Romania's Conpet - whose core activity is the transport of crude oil, rich gas, ethane and condensate through pipelines and by railway tanks - and Serbia's peer company Transnafta will complete in the coming three months the economic analysis on the viability of an oil pipeline that could link the city of Pitesti to Pancevo, informs a release from the Romanian Energy Department.

A 23-year-old woman faced drug trafficking charges on Saturday after a routine drug check on board a passenger ferry returning from the islands to the Port of Piraeus, found her to be in possession 106 grams of cocaine.

The young woman turned the drugs over to port police following an announcement that a canine unit was about to inspect the Blue Star 2 ferry for drugs.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested at Athens International Airport while trying to smuggle 12 kilos of heroin into the country, police said on Friday.

The Pakistani man arrived in Athens on Thursday night after flying from his homeland via Istanbul.

Authorities said they found the drugs in packages hidden inside his luggage.