Decades

North Korea has passed a law declaring its readiness to launch preventive nuclear strikes, including in the face of conventional attacks, state media said on Sept. 9. 

The move effectively eliminates the possibility of denuclearisation talks, with leader Kim Jong Un saying the country's status as a nuclear state was now "irreversible".

The Greeks will face Spain in the final

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sept. 9 that Turkish security forces had arrested a "senior executive" of the ISIL. 

Erdoğan said the commander was known as Abu Zeyd.

His real name was Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Sumaidai, Erdoğan told reporters on board his flight home from a three-nation tour of the Balkans.

Slovenian director Miran Zupanic's latest documentary tells a story of rich foreigners who paid to shoot at people in Sarajevo during the wartime siege - but Bosnian Serb war veterans insist the film is based on a lie.

Bulgaria's interim government will likely seek financial help from the EU to cover the costs of floods that have hit the centre of the country

The war lasted for 3 years

"Next to the April Uprising and the struggle for the creation of the Bulgarian Exarchy, the Unification in the fall of 1885 is one of the rare bright events in Bulgarian history that can be said to be entirely the work of Bulgarians.

Today marks 137 years since the declaration of independence of Eastern Rumelia from the Ottoman Empire and its union with the Principality of Bulgaria. In major cities throughout the country, the Bulgarian flag will be solemnly raised, military rituals will be performed and wreaths will be laid in memory of the dead.

A Palestinian was killed and 16 wounded Tuesday when Israeli troops entered Jenin in the occupied West Bank to carry out a home demolition, the Palestinian health ministry said.

"The outcome of the Israeli aggression on Jenin at dawn today: a 29-year-old martyr and 16 wounded with bullets and shrapnel were admitted to hospitals," the ministry said.

With the prospect of single-party rule or the formation of a viable coalition government weakened by the EYP surveillance scandal, rampant rumours that have circulated for months that the government may change the electoral law to to lower the threshold for  the top party up to a 50-seat-bonus have been rekindled.